How to Recover Locked Twitter Account without Phone Number?
Have you got locked out of your Twitter account? Twitter lock account when it’s system notices any unusual activity on your account. They do so to protect your account from getting hacked or SPAM. Usually Twitter recover your locked account through a small verification process. But this problem get worse, in-case you haven’t connected your Twitter account with your phone number. Twitter sends an OTP to your phone number to verify that you’re the real person. But as you haven’t connected your phone with your Twitter account, that won’t work. But, why worry when we are here to help, just follow this tutorial and you’ll be able to recover your Twitter account without help of your phone number.
Why you get locked out of the Twitter account?
There are a few possible reasons for getting locked out of your Twitter account :
- Suspicious Activity: Twitter automatically locks your account, if someone else or even you enter wrong passwords many times. It is done by Twitter itself to keep your account secure.
- Spamming: If you do some spam activity on their platform like, tweeting or replying the same thing again and again or posting spam links everywhere.
- Lost Your Phone: This is one of the toughest time when you create an account and then lose your phone which is the only way to get your account back.
Avoid getting locked out of your Twitter Account
Most of the time you get locked out of your Twitter account because of some activities that seems suspicious to Twitter. Here’s what to do to avoid such situations:
1. Avoid using Bots: These days people use different kind of Bots and Scripts to mass Follow, Unfollow and Retweet. I would suggest you to avoid such things because these activities are against Twitter TOS and can lead to permanent ban on your Twitter account.
2. Avoid SPAMMING in Reply: Sometimes people make big mistakes like replying everyone very quickly this actually triggers SPAM Protection Bot and Twitter blocks access to your Twitter account.
3. Avoid uploading Sensitive Content: If you simultaneously post sensitive content then I would recommend to not to do it. It can result in a lot of reports and eventually block access to account.
4. Add both Email and Phone number: In Your Twitter use both Phone number and email for recovery process so, in case you lost access to one you’ll always have the second option.
Steps to Recover Locked Twitter Account without a Phone Number:
If you somehow got locked out of your twitter and have no option left to get back your account. Then. let me help you with it. Follow the instruction to recover locked Twitter account without phone number :
Step 1: Go to Twitter Account Help
Open your browser and open your Twitter account help page. You need to visit https://help.twitter.com/forms/signin to get to the page
Step 2: Enter your Twitter account @username
On the Login issues page, you’ll get a form to fill, in which you need to enter your Twitter username of your locked account and want to unlock account without phone number.
Step 3: Next, Fill in other fields like Email address
You need to provide the email address that was registered with your Twitter account or any other email of yours. This email will be used for verification process.
Step 4: Explain your issue
You’ll need to explain the whole scenario, about what you did and how your account got locked. Reason behind locking of your account and you also lost access to your mobile phone. Explain to them each and everything in the Description box given in the form before submitting the form.
Step 5: Submit the Form
After entering all detail, do verify the reCAPTCHA and then hit that “Submit” button to submit the whole recovery fom.
After the successful submission, you’ll get a detailed email from Twitter and also one of their executives will unlock your account after successful verification after a week of time. So, have patience.
Conclusion
I would recommend you some tips that will help you to not get locked out of your Twitter account. Follow them :
- Do not post so many links on a repetitive basis.
- Do not copy-paste the same content again and again.
- Always use an email address in your account
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i’ve tried this but they keep sending me “VeriFy wItH yOuR phOne NuMbeR” they dont understand i DONT have access to my phone as i broke it and i cant log in, i keep getting notifications as my friends DM-ing me and replying to my tweets, how do i get it back- and its not taking my number for my old phone
I have my phone number and I have requested a verification code but I’m not getting any text… What should I do?
we have the same situation, how long did it take for you?
It took me between 1-2 weeks to get reply.
twitter already emailed me but i cant open my account, is it done or i have to wait?
Can you share your email screenshot with me on Twitter?
Send DM to @w3Abhishek or attach the image here in comments
how many weeks i need to wait?
It all depends on Twitter Support Staff. Due to the current situation, it may take much more time.
koulbd, kind words sooth over many minds. But a fool is quick to point out others failures.
My personal twitter account created 2008 with SMS-verification active.
After years didn’t used it, when I was trying login, I can’t because I lost my phone number.
I contacted the support to disable my 2step verification, didn’t get any reply.
But after a couple months I tried to login, and the 2step verification is gone, I can login and change my phone number to the new one.
So they didn’t reply my message, but they solved the problem.
Thanks a lot for helping me sir. Love you 😘
Happy to hear that 🙂
Hi. How long did it take for Twitter to respond on your appeal for the recovery of locked account?
About a week. I think
Thanks for this article. It is very helpful for me.
Glad you liked it
Somebody has to come across someone who works for Twitter and ask why don’t they have customer service this is fucking ridiculous
Yes. They should have a dedicated support system. But they are so huge and that’s the biggest problem.
It doesn’t work. But thanks for trying.
They don’ t return to appeals as you said sorry!
It worked in my case.
The mobile number on my Twitter account was already disabled because i already changed my sim what should i do?
Only Twitter support can help in this case
What if i cant remember my email that is linked to the account?
You can ask Twitter support about it. They can help you in recovering it. They will just ask a few questions related to your Twitter account to verify.
They keep calling my phone with a code but it is coming from a phone number with no ID so my phone automatically restricts it and I can’t receive the call.
Whitelist the number in your phone, or sometime TRUECALLER reject call so, please disable TRUECALLER from your phone.
My Twitter is locked and I can’t access it at all.. Been trying the help center thing but they telling me lock in so they can help but I CAN’T ACCESS IT ALL
The same exact thing is happening to me & has been going on for 2-3 weeks. I can’t even remember how long. I don’t have access to the phone number registered with my account & never bothered to update it because I use Twitter from my web browser, usually, & on the off chance I DO use it on a phone, it’s on my boyfriend’s iPhone. I can’t use his phone number because it’s registered with a separate Twitter account. I’m highly frustrated because I can’t update my phone number in any way, I can’t delete it, I can’t change or update my email, & I’ve changed my password at least eight times trying to unlock my account since Twitter SAYS that will unlock it. I’ve sent in numerous tickets, requests, & appeals. At least twenty by now, if not more. I’ve even logged onto an alternate (smaller) account of mine just to attempt to contact Twitter support, the staff, SOMEONE, & nobody has responded to me; DM’s & Tweets didn’t work. Each time I was met with either silence, or a bot-generated response – which is the same exact issue I’ve been having while sending in handfuls of tickets, requests, appeals, etc. After waiting a small period of time for my issue to be resolved (1-3 days, usually), I’ll send in another ticket, request, or appeal & get either of these results: 1.) I am told that my case needs to be completed before I can send in a new one, or 2.) I am told that my case has been closed (with NO actual update on it from Twitter, by the way) & that I need to submit a new ticket. All in all, Twitter fails miserably when it comes to their branch of support/customer service (though I wouldn’t go as far as to call it either, considering I haven’t been able to get in contact with an actual human being who is a representative from Twitter), & I’m starting to regret ever opening an account so many years ago. Twitter is where I go to stay updated on current events, politics, news, pop culture, music, & simply browse through content that I prefer. Twitter is where I go after a long day of work when I want to wind down. Twitter is an app/site that I use to stay in contact with certain friends of mine, & I can’t even do that anymore. I’ve combed all of Twitter’s “support/help” topics, articles, blogs, posts, etc. & I’ve browsed the web searching for a legitimate phone number, or even instructions on how to contact a Twitter executive. Weeks of eagerly anticipating the unlocking of my account, or at least an email from Twitter with an actual update or useful information, has made me irate at this point. I can’t help but use that word, because it’s the truth.
Hi! Did they respond to you already?
Yes
I’m locked and I can’t access my account without number confirmation. The said number isn’t available. How can I log in
Do you have your account logged-in in any of your device?
same problem. asking me for a confirmation but i have no access to my old phone number. how to fix this????
It’s not working, sent several tickets but the same bot generated response. Twitter has a millions of fake account they keep on blocking and never give a second thought of unlocking. This is why authenticate accounts too get suffered. It’s not so that a company like twitter has no idea of this lost phone verification issue but either they deliberately ignore this or its a bug they still have no knowledge about, but it’s possible ility is negligible looking at the company of this repute. In any case they have to confirm that the given phone number belongs to the account but if that’s a deactivated or lost or not accessible any more by the user then what??? Why not they send verification code on given email id. Why they only send password updating link on given email id. This is just ridiculous where coders at twitter seem to have no idea how to fix this.
I actually tried this method for one of my account and it worked. That’s why I shared this with you guys. I know the probability is low but still, there’s no other method.
My Twitter account locked, I want my Twitter account unlocke without phone no.please me
Try the method I shared above. it worked for me.
What “after successful verification after a week of time” mean? You can’t string together a coherent sentence, never mind provide useful solutions.
I will take care of it.
Thanks for pointing it out.