There are tons of hoaxes constantly doing the rounds on Twitter, including the recent Bitcoin scam. Today, I want to warn you about one that’s taken over the platform over the past couple of days: the “birth year hoax“. It’s as simple as it is stupid: it encourages you to head into your settings and change your birth year to 2007, in order to unlock a colorful feed or a ‘retro’ theme across the site. If you change your birthday to 2007, you get all the old nostalgic twitter looks. It’s actually fire — Flash Johnny (@ThereJohnnyGo) March 26, 2019…

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