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I have yet to add my phone number to my account. My guess is that it isn't applicable for legacy accounts circa 2008.

• gojomo 4y ago
  It can be triggered for opaque reasons. My account dates to February 2007. I was prompted for a phone number a few years and given no other options to recover the account. Burner & VOIP numbers that work for many other things, including SMS verifications, were rejected. I suspect the reason was some rapid changes in my IP address in a short period, together with a lot of Twitter tabs open – whose constant background requests often seem to trigger, for me, some sort of Twitter-side connection-slowing. (Their own shoddy, high-weight design makes my normal usage pattern look like a DoS attack to them.) So your style of usage, moreso than your account age, is likely for being spared their arbitrary phone-number inquisition.