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When I signed up for twitter many years ago as a student, I used it to follow tech people. It was nice to learn new stuff. But it also felt very limited. Who to

When I signed up for twitter many years ago as a student, I used it to follow tech people. It was nice to learn new stuff. But it also felt very limited. Who to follow? What's just noise? How can I follow someone's tech tweets and not personal tweets? How do avoid political rabbit holes? And why should anyone follow me back? Myself retweeted random stuff I cared about, wrote some personal tweets etc. So I ended up abandoning twitter for many years as I kinda didn't find a use case for it. Last year I made a new profile, though. Not a personal one, but dedicated to a single cause. It's much more fun to have this hyper focused profile. People follow me because they know what they get. I interact only with related content etc. But the interface is confusing. Very hard to follow discussions when they branch out. And can't follow new comments on something. The notifications are impossible to make sense of, and I don't even get that many. I had to learn the etiquette on how others in my area uses tweets, retweets, quote tweets etc, and I still don't understand it all.

matsemann 5y ago
But a question: how do people make additional accounts now that Twitter requires phone verification? Or is it possible to verify multiple accounts on my same number? Google voice not available here.
- abhaynayar 5y ago
  Yes, it is possible to verify multiple accounts on the same number.
- nyuszika7h 5y ago
  Twitter's help page [1] claims you can verify up to 10 accounts with the same phone number, but in reality there's a few weeks cooldown period after 2 accounts where you won't be able to reuse the same number even if you remove it from all accounts. You used to be able to verify 4 at once by removing the number from each account right after verification, but now they're stricter and removing the number right after verification rather than waiting a few weeks is very likely to get your account locked and asking for phone verification again immediately. You can use Google Voice (if you live in the US) or getsmscode.com, though. I've used the latter a lot for multiple sites and it's mostly reliable, better than free alternatives and it only has a very minimal cost ($0.1-$0.5 per verification text). Although it should be noted that sometimes Twitter will randomly force you to re-verify your phone number a while later, and the numbers on this site don't last forever (the US ones generally last for at least a few months, while Chinese ones likely won't work the next day already), so your account may be locked forever unless you manage to successfully appeal to Twitter (which can take anywhere between an hour and 6 months to get a response, whether it is positive or negative). [1]: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/phone-number-faqs https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/phone-numb...
  - matsemann 5y ago
    Thanks. Yeah, had lots of problems when making my new account recently. It got constantly locked. Then support unlocked it but it got locked automatically a few hours later each time. I'm not exactly running a troll farm here, I get why they do it, but very annoying. Half the fun of twitter for me is the niche accounts. Like World Bollard Association for instance (not mine). But making these gets harder every day.

matsemann 5y ago

But a question: how do people make additional accounts now that Twitter requires phone verification? Or is it possible to verify multiple accounts on my same number? Google voice not available here.

abhaynayar 5y ago
Yes, it is possible to verify multiple accounts on the same number.
nyuszika7h 5y ago
Twitter's help page [1] claims you can verify up to 10 accounts with the same phone number, but in reality there's a few weeks cooldown period after 2 accounts where you won't be able to reuse the same number even if you remove it from all accounts. You used to be able to verify 4 at once by removing the number from each account right after verification, but now they're stricter and removing the number right after verification rather than waiting a few weeks is very likely to get your account locked and asking for phone verification again immediately. You can use Google Voice (if you live in the US) or getsmscode.com, though. I've used the latter a lot for multiple sites and it's mostly reliable, better than free alternatives and it only has a very minimal cost ($0.1-$0.5 per verification text). Although it should be noted that sometimes Twitter will randomly force you to re-verify your phone number a while later, and the numbers on this site don't last forever (the US ones generally last for at least a few months, while Chinese ones likely won't work the next day already), so your account may be locked forever unless you manage to successfully appeal to Twitter (which can take anywhere between an hour and 6 months to get a response, whether it is positive or negative). [1]: https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/phone-number-faqs https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/phone-numb...
- matsemann 5y ago
  Thanks. Yeah, had lots of problems when making my new account recently. It got constantly locked. Then support unlocked it but it got locked automatically a few hours later each time. I'm not exactly running a troll farm here, I get why they do it, but very annoying. Half the fun of twitter for me is the niche accounts. Like World Bollard Association for instance (not mine). But making these gets harder every day.