Error Code 226 - This request looks like it might be automated

[creaturesOfTheD]

oh no!! please help us!!

[thelongwayphoto]

Same here

[nicyone]

Same problem here I have also tried after changing my twitter account password but the same problem :

stdClass Object
(
[errors] => Array
(
[0] => stdClass Object
(
[code] => 226
[message] => This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can’t complete this action right now. Please try again later.
)

    )

)

[spurs_family]

This issue seems to have going on since early this year its a real shame as it has destroyed the twitter api for developers . Lets hope there is more info released soon.

[3vieMathers]

Did it really worked? I’ve having the same issue now.

[larryy]

As of today I can’t even manually type in a reply and tweet it. No links in the message. Only thing that isn’t plain text is the twitter account to which I’m replying. I did accentuate one word, by placing asterisks on either side of the word. Surely that doesn’t matter?

I get this error message:

There was an error posting your message.
This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can’t complete this action right now. Please try again later.

But trying again produces the same result, many, many times. This is using Twitter’s own Twitter.app client on Mac OS X.

This on the heels of having my account messed up for most of yesterday claiming something about the account possibly being compromised, asking me to secure the account by resetting the password and providing a link, which link takes me to a page saying the account is locked, please refer to email for information on how to reset the password. Umm, can you say “infinite loop”? How ridiculously lame. (Oh, and there was nothing compromised or in any way wrong with the account. No mysterious tweets. Nothing. Just Twitter being a bonehead.) It just magically fixed itself later, though using that email link continued to say it was locked even though it wasn’t. Mind-bogglingly dumb.

[flawyne]

i actually cannot access my twitter DM,POST,RETWEET and REPLY every time i attempt that 226 error code gets displayed after and i need my twitter back,please help

[larryy]

I filed a ticket, got the following response, and taking the recommended actions restored my account. I’d already tried to reset my password, but I hadn’t logged out first, and apparently that’s critical.

"Twitter believes that your account may be compromised by a user or a service not associated with Twitter. To secure your account and continue safely using Twitter, please follow these instructions:

1. Log out of your account on Twitter.com
2. Use this link to change your password: https://twitter.com/account/resend_password
3. Make sure to pick a strong, unique password you haven’t used before. If you have more questions, the section in this article called “How to send yourself a password reset via email” will walk you through the process: https://support.twitter.com/articles/14663"

[john3825]

The new spam filter refuses all twitter requests have hash tags with url in the tweets, also many other situations.

Is there any documents for the spam filter?

[jj62ssm]

Fix the damn filter instead of asking us to change passwords! Changed the password and still fails.

I am posting a simple tweet with a .jpg link to my own account from my own website. The picture is good and clean of a baby leopard. And am not directing anything but to the image.

Can’t stand it that sometimes wishy washy your site shows the pics in the tweet and others it doesn’t. Bad coding again.

Get off your a$$e$ and code properly and not ask or recommend a bunch of stuff we needn’t nor ever need to do. Fix the simple coding issues.

[AoERealm]

im posting short titles and urls in tweets via a single app, and i get get theses errors, no matter title is changed or url is different.

[yoshioiwamoto]

I already filled a ticket and in response twitter said it was fixed, but it still does not working.

[TaraChauvin]

I have received the same message about malicious posts, but none of our content is salesy or malicious in any way. We never DM people, posts DO have hashtags with URLs once in a while. The content is sometimes focused on contests or programs that are legitimate to their followers.

We also recently started to get a lot more followers. Does a sudden spike in followers cause this error and subsequently it will flag posts, tweets, RT and comments?

A password reset didn’t always work to get all feeds back to normal tweeting abilities.

Whats the best solution to getting back on track with posting?

[yoseftemaiko]

Error 226 - Changing password helped.

[i_mo5tlef]

i Changed password . but is still same Error!!

[shilps31]

I am facing the same error and it is continuing. I cannot tweet link of a website and in fact it cannot be done from any other account. What is more irritating is the fact that all check has been done for automation and malicious activity and the website passes all the test. Twitter removed this restrictions and made it normal but after one day again it was the same thing. So now it stands as this is happening every alternate day.

[tomhubbard]

Yes, we are experiencing this error whenever we try to tweet with a shortened URL on tr.im . We run a legitimate URL shortening service which we regularly (multiple times per day) purge of bad URLs against several blacklists (Google Safe Browsing, PhishTank, etc.), but find that tweets with our tr.im URL in them are receiving the 226 error. This happens even for manual posts when not using the API. I have filed a ticket days ago, but it doesn’t seem to help. I would appreciate any advice on how to be unblocked. Thanks in advance!

[KCSportsNation]

Did you have any luck? I have a web blog/website and I can’t tweet from there using the Twitter Button, or by copying the URL and pasting it directly onto Twitter. I get the Error 226 code when copying the URL and the “error creating tweet” message when attempting to use the Twitter Button. Ive been frustrated for nearly a month now not knowing how to fix. Can ANYONE help me? I have been told to fill out a ticket, but dont even know what category to go.

[terminologia]

Since the beginning of September 2014, anyone trying to tweet a link to my site, Terminologia etc, gets a 226 error. The only workarounds are using some URL shorteners or scheduling tweets via TweetDeck, but if anyone tries clicking on them Twitter redirects to a page that warns The site you were trying to visit may be unsafe! This link has been flagged as potentially harmful. […]. This is clearly a false positive as the site has been verified as safe by all major antivirus programs and malware checkers.
I filled several tickets via support.twitter.com/forms/spam (cases # 05562433, 06035204, 06075497, 06275427, 06482207, 06539104, 06563465, 06678254), and so did some of my followers, but it appears all tickets were automatically closed without any action being taken. I emailed support@twitter.com & siteabuse@twitter.com but I did not receive any reply.
I resorted to posting this message here as I have exhausted all options to try and have this issue finally resolved. Also, I would like to find out why my site is being blocked, as it is a reputable site that focuses on linguistics and translation and contains mainly text and images, so nothing even remotely offensive or resembling spam.
Any help to resolve this matter is much appreciated.

Licia (@terminologia)

[TurfDirectory]

Our URL is blacklisted for possible malware, Spam, we don’t have any problems with the site www.thoroughbreddirectory.com however we cant get this lifted because we cant get to speak with anyone, this is now really affecting our business, please could someone sort this out we dont tweet that much but have to ofer the ability to tweet @TurfDirectory