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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Danni Scott

Bird charity banned from Twitter for repeatedly posting woodcock photos

You wouldn't think that a bird charity would get banned from Twitter for tweeting about birds but in a bizarre algorithm fail, the social media platform removed access for The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).

The charity lost the ability to tweet, like tweets, or log in at all during the Big Garden Birdwatch, an annual birdwatching event in connection with the BBC's Winterwatch.

Baffled, the BTO believe it was their innocent tweets about the woodcock species of bird that flagged the account but Twitter have not confirmed or denied this blunder, although Elon Musk has tweeted his thoughts on the matter.

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