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Originally Twitter was over SMS. That's why Tweets were limited to 140 characters; it's all you could fit. So they did have a reason to ask for phone numbers fr
by Stevvo 5y ago
Originally Twitter was over SMS. That's why Tweets were limited to 140 characters; it's all you could fit. So they did have a reason to ask for phone numbers from the beginning.
- barbazoo 5y agoOk but now, what feels like a 100 years later, they don't anymore. It's just another data point to identify users and sell that information eventually.
- maerF0x0 5y agoAnd today the hard requirement is???
- 0xdeadb00f 5y agoMoney. They want money.