This is not my day for social media.

[flamebyrd]

I mostly quit Twitter early last year for mental health reasons, so since then I've just been using a single list to get notified when the speedrunners I'm interested in go live. (I don't have a Twitch account.) Today I tried to log in to Tweetbot and got an authentication error. It seems like the API that 3rd-party apps use for Twitter is currently down. Malice or incompetence? There's no official word yet.

So, bored, I opened the Tumblr app and got an authentication error. Weird, I thought, and logged out and in again. Incorrect username or password, it said. So I tried to log in using the website and it told me my account was deactivated.

I've had no communication from Tumblr about why this may have happened! I've opened a Support ticket but no response (not even an automated one) yet. My working theory, based on this post on Medium is that since I've only used my Tumblr to crosspost from Dreamwidth for a few years, it was terminated (possibly by a bot) as a spam account. From this subReddit I at least know I'm not alone.

Weird choice on their part if they're trying to tempt away users from the slowly-dying Twitter, but what do I know.

At least there's still Dreamwidth ♥

Comments

[silverflight8]

Glad you are still around but man, bad luck trying to get into all your accounts!