Twitter issues warning over birth year hoax that locks users out of accounts

Twitter users are being tricked into changing their birthdays – and finding themselves locked out of their account. A viral hoax flying around the site suggests that people change their birthday in their Twitter profile to 2007. If they do, they'll get access to new colour schemes on the site, it suggests. But there are no colour schemes to be unlocked. Instead, changing your birthday to that soon will just tell Twitter that you are under 13 years old, which in turn means you shouldn't be allowed on the site, and so will be kicked off.