@chriswheatley@mastodonapp.uk @paul try to follow any of them back and if you can’t, your server has blocked bird.makeup
bird.makeup accounts are, remember, not actual people, let alone the specific people that they purport to be, but a third party who is mirroring Twitter content into the FediVerse. Usually the WWW sites are running a piece of software named BirdSITELive, or one of its derivatives.
There are a bunch of such third-party Twitter mirrors around, and it is common for sysops to silence them.
As I said, it is common for sysops to silence them. The mastodon.social sysop does.
No. Most of my experience is that places do.
Personally, I follow the dictum that if I want Twitter, I know where it is.
So I don't try to get it through third-party robot mirrors to somewhere else that isn't Twitter. I just go to #Twitter. (-:
@vincent @JdeBP @chriswheatley@mastodonapp.uk @paul @Fyrsta have got an account on mastodon.social now and now I get account not found errors returned instead of ghost accounts