Elon Musk has mocked a bird charity that have been locked out of their Twitter media account after several tweets about a "woodcock".
The Norfolk-based British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) said it lost access to its account during the Big Garden Birdwatch, with representative Tom Stewart calling it a "bit of a mystery" as to why the account has been locked.
But Chief Twit Musk appears to have seen the funny side, calling it the "most ironic thing I've read in a while."
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His response to the news is the only official Twitter response sent to the BTO so far, with the charity contacting Twitter support but claiming they have not yet received a reply from anyone but Musk.
BTO representative Stewart said: "We tried to contact Twitter to try to get our account back up and running quickly, but it's all automated and you just get a message back saying 'thank you for sending the information – we will review it.
"We thought it might have happened because of our repeated use of the word 'woodcock' for our species survey, which might have been misinterpreted by Twitter's algorithms."
The "annoying" and hopefully temporary suspension was seen by Musk, who replied to an article referencing the Twitter trouble.
He wrote: "Most ironic thing I've read in a while. How much wood could a woodcock…"
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The account trouble comes as Twitter had asked the account to verify its age, but, Stewart noted, "it was all downhill from there really, as the age we put in didn't tally with Twitter's (very under-publicised) age verification policy."
Stewart, speaking to BBC, added that it "was annoying that it happened in that week of all weeks, when there tends to be a swell of activity among our 115,000 followers for Winterwatch".
The account has since been restored by Twitter officials, with Stewart adding they are "relieved" they can tweet again and noted the irony of the bird charity being locked out.
He added: "But we're conscious of the irony of a bird charity being locked out of Twitter."
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