Locked out of Twitter

A question about : Locked out of Twitter

All of a sudden tonight I am locked out of Twitter ??

A box popped up with this:

Your account has been locked.
Your account appears to have exhibited automated behavior that violates the Twitter Rules. To unlock your account, please click the button below and confirm that you are the valid account owner.

Did what they said, they texted me a code but it still won't let me in ??

Anyone else got this tonight ?

Best answers:

• Yep same here!
  Although haven't actually tried to unlock mine yet as I've displaced my phone temporarily, so I can't comment on that front.
• A global issue currently
• so its not just me then
  got the code via text and still locked - 3 times now
• I got locked out 3 times in a row then a message saying I've exceeded the limit.
• Mine's still working.
• Mine is back now.
• Mine sorted too now. Thanks for the heads up.
• After four years of RT'ing I thought they'd finally caught up to me - haha
• That happened to me last night too. I had to send a telephone no. so they could send me a code to unlock it. Glad I wasn't the only one it happened to.
• Happened to me too.......cue all my conspiracy theories!
• This happened to me too.
  *puts tinfoil hat on* Perhaps they were phishing for phone numbers?