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Twitter is holding me hostage
- holler 6y agoI’ve had similar issues when signing up but I ended up using my phone number to get past it. You could always use your number now to get in, then erase the number from the account or switch to a dummy number (if allowed). But I think Twitter also allows managing more than one profile through same “account”. Good luck! working on a new twitteresque conversation site, curious if you could post the article there and use the citation? open beta but welcome to try :) https://sqwok.im https://sqwok.im
- mathsm 6y agoYou could always use your number now to get in, then erase the number from the account or switch to a dummy number (if allowed). They don't offer this option anymore, I think they stopped offering it when I first opened a ticket. Plus giving them a number, even if only for a limited once, just perpetuates the situation... curious if you could post the article there I'll take a look, but then again I'm not usually interested in social media: I did this solely to benefit profesionnaly from the network effect of (i) my colleagues who are active on Twitter, and (ii) Twitter itself.
- raxxorrax 6y agoI think Twitter will become much more insular and that real id isn't really working for a large demographic. People using it professionally might have different requirements, but I don't see incentives to give Twitter my phone number or my real name. They would only sell that info anyway.
- mathsm 6y agoI don't see incentives to give Twitter my phone number or my real name For personal use, I don't either, and in fact I don't see incentive to give Twitter anything at all and would gladly avoid it. But to put forward one's work in academia, anonymity (or absence) isn't so great.