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In the recent past, I've seen Twitter harshly ban account I randomly make. Sometimes its weeks before they ask for a phone number and if you don't have a real n
by sdan 6y ago
In the recent past, I've seen Twitter harshly ban account I randomly make. Sometimes its weeks before they ask for a phone number and if you don't have a real number (iirc they check against VoIP) they won't unrestrict you. If you have the same IP as other account I think they also might auto restrict you.
- hertzrat 6y agoThey banned my account for unnamed terms of use violations after my first post saying “well, I finally made a Twitter account.” Their support replied with “queries will not be responded to.” It was for the best
- encom 6y agoSeveral years ago I tried to make a Twitter account. It got banned before I posted anything. I hadn't even subscribed to any users. I was going through the settings, and then \bam\, banned for being a bot, or some such nonsense. Nothing of value was lost.
- 5560675260 6y agoTwitter aggressively tries to get phone numbers from new users - providing it is the main way to get unbanned in cases like this.
- encom 6y agoUnless you're my mother, or maybe if you're part of my immediate family, you're not getting my phone number. American giant corporation with questionable ethics: hard no.
- 5560675260 6y agoYeah, I had to get a separate number just to please twitter's automation. Their approach is somewhat understandable - stopping bots is a hard problem, phone number in theory represents a material cost and a hurdle to someone who wants to rapidly register thousands of new accounts.
- iso1210 6y agoDon't you have a burner phone/sim for these types of requests?
- encom 6y agoThis is brought up every time this subject is discussed. Is a burner phone a normal thing that regular people have? But no, I don't have a burner phone. I'm not going to buy a phone and a SIM just as some kind of non-solution to tech companies having a hard-on for invading peoples privacy.
- iso1210 6y agoI have an old phone (who doesn't) which I leave plugged in on my desk, with a £5 payg sim card.
- nebalee 6y agoWhen they locked my freshly created account and didn't let me use it unless I gave them my phone number I mailed them and told them I would not do so for privacy reasons. My account was unlocked the next day.