Due to a bizarre mistake, the bird site temporarily bans people from tweeting the word “Memphis.” On Sunday, several Twitter users they suddenly found the accounts closed for 12 hours apparently just to say the word, including myself
What Twitter has against Tennessee’s second largest city is an assumption of any kind. Maybe they’re just not great Elvis fans? Who knows.
Several users shared screenshots of the file suspension alerts they received on Sunday, stating that the word that caused the problem was “Memphis.” Many discovered the mistake after sharing a photo of Dutch professional football player Memphis Depay, the Independent reports. In an apparent reference to this, the official English account of the French football club Olympique Lyonnais has tweeted a picture of Depay along with the message “can we talk about him yet?” and tagged on Twitter. The Tennessee-based Memphis Grizzlies basketball team also appeared to call the mistake a tweet referring to “the word m” on Sunday.
One user shared an alleged screenshot of a response from Twitter support that said the problem was “a bug in our system” without further explanation, but it appears that the original tweet has been deleted as it does not appears in Twitter support responses.
“This has already been fixed and you can say ‘Memphis’ again. Sorry,” the message says.
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A Twitter spokesman also provided Gizmodo with the following statement: “The problem was referred to as an error and has since been resolved.”
However, if this is true, it does not seem to be the case for everyone. Twitter wouldn’t allow me to go back to my account until I deleted my “Memphis” tweet and even several features are still limited. If you try to tweet or retweet anything, an alert will appear, which is shown below, that my account will remain mostly no commissions for the next 12 hours. We contacted Twitter for more clarification on this.
It’s not that I’m complaining, really. A 12-hour break from this hellish place sounds like a vacation.
Whatever that mistake is, it can only affect us prolols without blue control, like Twitter it doesn’t seem to score my verified co-worker tweets containing the word. Images or image descriptions with the word “Memphis” it also doesn’t seem to stumble upon the Twitter ban.
There’s a certain irony to seeing Twitter’s rapid crackdown on the word “Memphis” after years of fighting to moderate the unbridled abuse and bigotry on your platform. But this is Twitter for you: an online refuge for literally Nazis but God forbid we tweet about the cradle of rock ‘n roll.