Last fall ( october 2015 ) twitter started mandating your real mobile number (sms confirmation) to logon, so I deleted my account. I think I had over a 1,000 fo

Last fall ( october 2015 ) twitter started mandating your real mobile number (sms confirmation) to logon, so I deleted my account. I think I had over a 1,000 followers, so what. The case of anonymity was taken away last year. I suspect with Twitter being for sale, that the sale of 'confirmed live humans' to target for their interest and profile is more valuable then millions of anonymous. I deleted all of my facebook accounts more than 5+ years ago. About the same time they went to 'real id'. These days you can't even open an account on google without your mobile phone. I was amazed running youtube on my samsung that it let me create a google account, which is mandatory to run youtube, without a mobile, then the next night I ran the youtube again and it asked for my phone number, so I deleted the android youtube, Much of the developer tools now require your credit-card just to download, ... funny that they're going way beyond 'real id' to 'Real Orwell'. With the credit card, they can link your FICO, and that is worth some real money, to know a person interest, and net worth. I suspect in time that people who refuse to give out their mobile numbers and credit cards will be denied developer privileges. I think the line of reasoning goes that 'code' is too valuable to give to the anonymous people. Long ago Zuckerberg said "Only an idiot would use Facebook", I concur, using computer since 1960's, I started with punch card on OS/360 IBM, most mostly machine language, then jumped to APL in 1970, then Unix mid 70's. Since day one, I never used my real-name for anything online (tcp-ip), to this day I find it a privilege to google my own name and find nothing. I think that Marc has just joined this club, the club of freedom knowing that they know nothing. Don't give them anything, not your real name, not your phone ( tracking device ), not your credit-card ( scores,IRS ). Now in China they give a number to every citizen indicating his worthiness, the FICO or credit score in USA is much the same, its always been an indication of a well behaved citizen, a lemming. Let's hope now with all his money that Marc finds a life, maybe he can go live on some mountain and become spiritual and disconnect from all electronic device for a time, and learn the real meaning of being human.