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> How to Protect Your Account > (...) To keep your identity as veiled as possible, we recommend not adding a publicly known phone number or email address to yo

> How to Protect Your Account > (...) To keep your identity as veiled as possible, we recommend not adding a publicly known phone number or email address to your Twitter account. Well, you're the ones constantly temporarily banning my account for not providing a phone number...

lysergia 4y ago
Strange you say that. I’m six months into my pseudonymous account and they haven’t tried to extort my phone number. It’s like they know from my behavior that I don’t want to be doxxed by Twitter Inc. I signed up using a VPN and a weird email address, and used an AD blocker.
- busymom0 4y ago
  Do they shadowban such accounts? Are you aware if your posts and comments are visible to others?
  - lysergia 4y ago
    I checked. I have a few alt accounts and all my tweets and interactions are visible when I visit my profile.
    - busymom0 4y ago
      And this is even when you visit the post (from someone else) which you reply to while being signed out of your account and your IP address? Most shadow banning show the posts if visited via the profile but are invisible if viewed as replies to someone else's post or while signed out and using different IP address. Might be worth checking. Not asserting that this is the case with Twitter though.
  - winternett 4y ago
    There are many different levels of shadowban apparently. You can be excluded from being able to trend, or gain followers, or to have post visibility at all based on what I've observed. It mainly gets triggered by complaining about Twitter or a favored sponsor... Twitter considers those things censorable, but not upsetting violence and shocking pr0n for some strange reason... ugh.
- nullc 4y ago
  I think your experience is irregular. A while back I was forced to create an account just to report an impersonator and they insta-suspended it for "suspicious behavior" until I provided a phone number. I asked around and heard uniformly "oh yea, twitter does that".
SkyMarshal 4y ago
They said don't add a publicly known phone number to your account, so you have to create a Google Voice account that you'll never use except for account credentials like this. But Twitter will probably ban you for not using a real phone number. Or, you'll reuse that phone number across other accounts until one of them gets hacked and that phone number sold on the dark net, and now it's a public phone number again.
- groovybits 4y ago
  Last time I tried (last year), Twitter did not accept VoIP numbers. I tried Google Voice and Sudo (which are provisioned by Twilio).
  - MiddleEndian 4y ago
    >Last time I tried (last year), Twitter did not accept VoIP numbers If only my phone company also had this policy!
mandeepj 4y ago
> How to Protect Your Account I'm thinking out loud for various other options that can be utilized: a private 256 char length key? You can also store it in a (Azure) key vault, so that it's easily accessible to you from other devices as well. I hope social media companies get open to more secure alternates, but security seems to be their after-thought.
jjulius 4y ago
> How to Protect Your Account > Don't sign up. FTFY
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lysergia 4y ago

Strange you say that. I’m six months into my pseudonymous account and they haven’t tried to extort my phone number. It’s like they know from my behavior that I don’t want to be doxxed by Twitter Inc. I signed up using a VPN and a weird email address, and used an AD blocker.

busymom0 4y ago
Do they shadowban such accounts? Are you aware if your posts and comments are visible to others?
- lysergia 4y ago
  I checked. I have a few alt accounts and all my tweets and interactions are visible when I visit my profile.
  - busymom0 4y ago
    And this is even when you visit the post (from someone else) which you reply to while being signed out of your account and your IP address? Most shadow banning show the posts if visited via the profile but are invisible if viewed as replies to someone else's post or while signed out and using different IP address. Might be worth checking. Not asserting that this is the case with Twitter though.
- winternett 4y ago
  There are many different levels of shadowban apparently. You can be excluded from being able to trend, or gain followers, or to have post visibility at all based on what I've observed. It mainly gets triggered by complaining about Twitter or a favored sponsor... Twitter considers those things censorable, but not upsetting violence and shocking pr0n for some strange reason... ugh.
nullc 4y ago
I think your experience is irregular. A while back I was forced to create an account just to report an impersonator and they insta-suspended it for "suspicious behavior" until I provided a phone number. I asked around and heard uniformly "oh yea, twitter does that".

SkyMarshal 4y ago

They said don't add a publicly known phone number to your account, so you have to create a Google Voice account that you'll never use except for account credentials like this. But Twitter will probably ban you for not using a real phone number. Or, you'll reuse that phone number across other accounts until one of them gets hacked and that phone number sold on the dark net, and now it's a public phone number again.

groovybits 4y ago
Last time I tried (last year), Twitter did not accept VoIP numbers. I tried Google Voice and Sudo (which are provisioned by Twilio).
- MiddleEndian 4y ago
  >Last time I tried (last year), Twitter did not accept VoIP numbers If only my phone company also had this policy!

mandeepj 4y ago

> How to Protect Your Account I'm thinking out loud for various other options that can be utilized: a private 256 char length key? You can also store it in a (Azure) key vault, so that it's easily accessible to you from other devices as well. I hope social media companies get open to more secure alternates, but security seems to be their after-thought.

jjulius 4y ago

> How to Protect Your Account > Don't sign up. FTFY

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