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I'm assuming it's to try de-anonymize users and make bots less cost effective. Nothing propagates faster than hate on Twitter and seeing as it's being actively

by mythz 8y ago

I'm assuming it's to try de-anonymize users and make bots less cost effective. Nothing propagates faster than hate on Twitter and seeing as it's being actively weaponized to spread propaganda, I'm all for new measures that try slow the spread down - esp. given nothing else has worked thus far.

14 8y ago
I wish there was a service out there that you could use your phone number and they will validate that you are real for companies and they would be separate from Twitter or any company using them so the user remains anonymous. I don't like some of the nasty stuff the net throws my way either but I do ultimately think if I had to choose a censored internet vs uncensored but full of negatives, I would chose the uncensored. The internet is one of mankind's greatest achievements. Once you start censoring it, abuses of such control ultimately will happen.
- samename 8y ago
  This almost sounds like something too good to be true. Big companies like Twitter and Facebook wouldn't want to use this service because they want to collect the data. This company would need to charge websites for the service, otherwise their only alternative is to sell their user's data or advertise, which leaves us right where we already are. Of course there may be other ways for such a service to survive, but those are my initial thoughts about seeing something like this happen. I would love for something like this to exist, though
  - awad 8y ago
    I take the opposite view...something like this seems rather viable as a business that companies would gladly pay money for but it also basically sounds like another Equifax/Experian/Transunion fiasco waiting to happen. The only logical thing I can thing of is a consortium of the big telcos creating a shared database and service that companies could tap into.
tw1010 8y ago
Guess that means old legacy bot accounts just got a whole lot more valuable.
ratling 8y ago
I expect they'll reverse this. Twitter is literally just bots arguing with bots. That and every political operative has like 20 sock puppets to drum up 'grassroots support' for whatever they're shilling. They should put Cheeto on the payroll, he's the only reason they're still relevant.
senorjazz 8y ago
> and make bots less cost effective. You can rent really mobile phones in China for 5cents or so, up to 20cents for EU and other countries which will probably have a better success rate. It is not going to stop bots

by mythz 8y ago

14 8y ago

I wish there was a service out there that you could use your phone number and they will validate that you are real for companies and they would be separate from Twitter or any company using them so the user remains anonymous. I don't like some of the nasty stuff the net throws my way either but I do ultimately think if I had to choose a censored internet vs uncensored but full of negatives, I would chose the uncensored. The internet is one of mankind's greatest achievements. Once you start censoring it, abuses of such control ultimately will happen.

samename 8y ago
This almost sounds like something too good to be true. Big companies like Twitter and Facebook wouldn't want to use this service because they want to collect the data. This company would need to charge websites for the service, otherwise their only alternative is to sell their user's data or advertise, which leaves us right where we already are. Of course there may be other ways for such a service to survive, but those are my initial thoughts about seeing something like this happen. I would love for something like this to exist, though
- awad 8y ago
  I take the opposite view...something like this seems rather viable as a business that companies would gladly pay money for but it also basically sounds like another Equifax/Experian/Transunion fiasco waiting to happen. The only logical thing I can thing of is a consortium of the big telcos creating a shared database and service that companies could tap into.

tw1010 8y ago

Guess that means old legacy bot accounts just got a whole lot more valuable.

ratling 8y ago

I expect they'll reverse this. Twitter is literally just bots arguing with bots. That and every political operative has like 20 sock puppets to drum up 'grassroots support' for whatever they're shilling. They should put Cheeto on the payroll, he's the only reason they're still relevant.

senorjazz 8y ago

> and make bots less cost effective. You can rent really mobile phones in China for 5cents or so, up to 20cents for EU and other countries which will probably have a better success rate. It is not going to stop bots