4
2007 Birthday Twitter Prank

2007 Birthday Twitter Prank

Part of a series on Twitter / X. [View Related Entries]

Updated Mar 27, 2019 at 01:25PM EDT by Adam.

Added Mar 27, 2019 at 12:51PM EDT by Adam.

PROTIP: Press 'i' to view the image gallery, 'v' to view the video gallery, or 'r' to view a random entry.

This submission is currently being researched & evaluated!

You can help confirm this entry by contributing facts, media, and other evidence of notability and mutation.

About

2007 Twitter Birthday Prank refers to a hoax in which people encourage others to change the year of their birth on Twitter to 2007 in order to see colors unique to people that age. However, the result of changing one's birth year to 2007 causes the site to suspend the account, as Twitter requires its users to be a minimum age of 13.

Origin

While the post starting the hoax is unknown, the earliest known reference to the prank was posted March 24th, 2019 by user @horrifcs[1] (shown below).


horrifcs @horrifcs Follow So someone tweeted to change your birthday to 2007 so I did then twitter said l'm 13 yrs old and can't use twitter and suspended me 6:29 PM - 24 Mar 2019

That day, two other people posted encouraging others to change their birthday to 2007: @hayleyerin and @killthisloves (shown below).


taylor hotchkiss stan @hayleyerin Follow everyone that didn't watch the premiere of #PLLThePerfectionists change your twitter birthday to 2007 for a surprise 6:46 PM-24 Mar 2019 omie @killsthisloves Follow GUYS! Twitter has this awesome Easter egg if you change your birthday year to 2007 (the year they split off into their own company.) try it and reply with your reactions :P 6:50 PM - 24 Mar 2019

Spread

Over the following days, the prank began growing more widespread. Popular tweets pushing the prank from March 25th, 2019 include tweets by @s_rxii, which gained over 22,000 retweets and 37,000 likes (shown below, left), and @buteracypher, which gained over 620 retweets and 1,800 likes (shown below, right).


Follow @s_rxii damn changing your birth year to 2007 makes your twitter feed all colourful we been missin out 4:40 PM-25 Mar 2019 Follow @buteracypher Since its cb season I'm going to be nice to antis. to prove my good intentions I'm going to tell you a secret, if you change your twitter age to 2007 you can get a rainbow mode. Fellow armys please be nice & don't do it or the glitch will be gone, be considerated 11:10 AM-25 Mar 2019

The spread of the prank caused Twitter to make a statement, in a since deleted tweet that read "We’ve noticed a prank trying to get people to change their Twitter birthday in their profile to 2007 to unlock new color schemes. Please don’t do this. You’ll get locked out for being under 13 years old."[2] The prank was covered by The Verge, Mashable,[3] and 9to5Mac.[4]


Twitter Support * @TwitterSupport We've noticed a prank trying to get people to change their Twitter birthday in their profile to 2007 to unlock new color schemes Please dont do this. You'll get locked out for being under 13 years old 2:04 27 Mar 19 Twitter Web Client 6,649 Retweets 15K Likes Twitter Support@ @TwitterSu.. . 2h If your account was locked after changing your Twitter birthday to 2007, please follow the instructions that were sent after the change was made to your account.


Search Interest

External References

[1] Twitter – @horrifcs

[2] The Verge – Don’t change your Twitter birthday to 2007 unless you want to get kicked off for being under 13

[3] Mashable – Twitter warns users about falling for birthday changing prank

[4] 9to5Mac – Twitter warns users not to fall for viral prank that actually locks you out of your account

Related Entries 195 total


View All Related Entries

Recent Videos

There are no videos currently available.

Recent Images 6 total

   

Top Comments


+ Add a Comment

Comments (10)


Display Comments

Add a Comment


Yo Yo! You must login or signup first!