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Slightly OT, but someone registered a Twitter account with my primary e-mail address. I received a "Confirm your e-mail account" email with a link "Not My Account". That link brings me to a page that says "Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!".

There doesn't appear to be any way to contact Twitter about this.

Shortly after, I received a second email "Welcome to Twitter, <username>"

Going to: https://support.twitter.com/forms/impersonation

..and selecting "Someone is using my email address without my permission." tells me to submit a general support ticket. That's fine except none of the general categories has anything to do with this problem and choosing "My issue is not in the list" simply redirects me immediately to the root support page. I submitted a ticket with a different topic and have not heard back from them in a week and expect I never will.



Doesn't this mean your email account is compromised?


I doubt it. I have two factor auth set up on my email. Looking at the timestamps, the Welcome email was sent the same minute as the "Please confirm" email, so it's possible the Twitter account is not live and this was just an automatic welcome e-mail. Still, it would be nice if the "Not My Account" link actually worked properly or there was some way to contact support about it.


Maybe the "Please confirm" mail was fake and actually meant to get you to click on the "Not My Account" link ...




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