WaPo article: https://archive.is/wip/sgViP
Company owner Elon Musk tweeted that the change was a “temporary emergency measure” to deter third-party scraping of data from the social media platform. “We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!” Musk wrote.
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my phone number is banned as is my actual email, but my alt email was fine. if you're IP banned unplug your router for a minute (unless you're paying for Static IP of course)