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A fine is a cost. It's quite possible that Twitter made more than $150m in doing this.
by wanderr 4y ago
A fine is a cost. It's quite possible that Twitter made more than $150m in doing this.
- missedthecue 4y agoI don't think Twitter makes money at all.
- bpodgursky 4y agoI truly doubt this was a calculated tradeoff. It was almost certainly a fuckup where the phone # was mistakenly stored in a shared schema, and someone on the ads side saw it and decided to use it for targeting, knowing nothing about 2FA or how it got there. This probably only affects a tiny fraction of their users.
- ziddoap 4y ago>I truly doubt this was a calculated tradeoff. Potentially, sure. >It was almost certainly a fuckup where the phone # was mistakenly stored in a shared schema, and someone on the ads side saw it and decided to use it How is this an "almost certainly"? Do you have additional information you'd care to share on why you think so? If this were the case, it would point to insanely sloppy policies, procedures, and implementations. >This probably only affects a tiny fraction of their users. Why?
- bpodgursky 4y ago> This probably only affects a tiny fraction of their users. Because most users provided their phone number when signing up, not just when setting up 2FA. Twitter has always been phone-centric (the first app was literally just sending SMS messages).