We all have more or less clear the four basic things about social networks: you should not insult others, you should not impersonate someone else, you cannot spread hate messages. And then there’s Twitter, the Wild West social network commanded by sheriff Elon Musk, that capable of putting a giant X in his general offices just to be forced to remove it a few days later. Brilliant strategy, sir. Now we have learned, in the most hilarious way possible, that rule that Twitter is not going to allow anyone to break: being under 13 years old to create an account.
Escape from Twitter
And the thing is that ‘RuneScape’, the MMORPG that has been running since 2001 and continues to function without much problem, found the other day that Elon Musk had decided to close his account. The reason? When he started it, he was under 13 years old and it was illegal. But what are they talking about? Was Andrew Gower, the game director, a teenager when he created it? Not at all. It turns out that when he created the account on the -then- new social network Twitter in 2009, he decided to make the joke of putting 2001 as his birth year. And now, 15 years later, justice has caught up with him.
Apparently, even if you have many more years now, Twitter justice can fall upon you at any second. That’s what happened to ‘RuneScape’. In order to restore the account, Twitter usually deletes all tweets written during the period when the person was a child, but in the case of the video game, it was returned in its entirety after verifying that it was indeed a mistake. Just wait until TikTok starts doing the same. The online purge.
