The official government account for Rep. Devin Nunes was briefly suspended last night. . .
Looks like former House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chair and Trump ally Devin Nunes may have been booted from Twitter. pic.twitter.com/aBNrT1zqdi
— Michael S. Smith II (@MichaelSSmithII) February 10, 2021
. . . but, oddly, his personal account was not affected:
Very odd that Devin Nunes’ official Congressional account was suspended for a while today, and his personal account was not. Wonder what’s going on. Is Nunes using that account to send and receive direct messages that Twitter staff are worried about?
— Michael S. Smith II (@MichaelSSmithII) February 10, 2021
According to Twitter, the account was “suspended in error” after someone accessing the account failed “to complete an anti-spam challenge”:
Twitter says that @DevinNunes’ account was suspended in error and has been restored. pic.twitter.com/aQwJttGiei
— Scott Nover (@ScottNover) February 10, 2021
In other words, you CAN fail those annoying CAPTCHA things:
Ranking House Intelligence member failed CAPTCHA.https://t.co/QeeJ677N2e
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 10, 2021
Boomers, right?
Whenever a conservative is suspended from Twitter there’s a 50/50 chance it happened because they’re boomers who don’t understand technology and fail the most basic captcha anti-spam challenges. As is what happened with Devin Nunes.
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) February 10, 2021
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