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It slows down (but doesn’t completely prevent) the creation of spam and grief accounts. It’s a tradeoff I’m willing to make.
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
It slows down (but doesn’t completely prevent) the creation of spam and grief accounts. It’s a tradeoff I’m willing to make.
- sseagull 5y agoBut the user is not interested in posting (or they would have an account already). They are only creating an account because twitter is making them. Twitter doesn't seem to have an option of a read-only account, where a phone number is only required to post.