People have been trick into deleting their Twitter accounts , after an obvious fraudulence went viral .

Several exploiter posted the prank , which claim that if people change their birthdate to a day   after 2007 , they ’d unlock a gloss schema that only 12 - year - olds on Twitter have admission to .

This peculiar version of the scam got retweeted almost 30,000 times . Many other helpful   hoi polloi " confirm " the story , carry screenshots of what shaver ’s Twitter looks like .

you could probably already see the problem here : 12 - year - olds are not allowed on Twitter . If you do make the change , you are essentially informing Twitter you are a minor and flagging your account for deletion .

If you do actually change your birthdate , you are greeted with the content : " Your account is locked . Our Terms of Service require everyone who use Twitter to be 13 or older , and we have check that you did not get together the minimum eld requirement at the clock time this write up was created . "

The prank worked quite well as masses who actually did it could n’t get into their account to reply what had happened . However , their friends and folk passed on their messages of irritation for them .

One persontexted their friend :

" This stunned fking miss twinge something about how if you exchange your nascency date to 2007 that your twitter will become colored and me being the dumbass I am changed it and now I ’m kicked out of my fking twitter because I do n’t MEET THE eld REQUIREMENT . I ’m so f**king mad what the blaze . "

The exploiter confirm that they are locked out " UNTIL I’M 13 ! " in eight month ' clip .

Many , many annoyed user have had to set up new account due to the frivolity .

There areliterally one C moreif you ’d wish to scroll through a handsome list of the fleeceable for yourselves .

It got so prominent that Twitter terminate up warn people about it .

" We ’ve noticed a prank essay to get people to change their Twitter birthday in their visibility to unlock novel color system , " they write , predictably , on Twitter .

" Please do n’t try this . We do n’t have different color scheme based on your birthday . "

If you have done this , like a silly routine of people have , you canappeal your suspension here .