> To keep your identity as veiled as possible, we recommend not adding a publicly known phone number or email address to your Twitter account. I had to look up

> To keep your identity as veiled as possible, we recommend not adding a publicly known phone number or email address to your Twitter account. I had to look up whether this was actually official communication, since it sounds like a kafkaesque fever dream, but yes it's real. Tech CO's have been doing everything in their power to get your number and email, used it for advertising, and deliberately disabled non-regular phone numbers. And now suddenly you're being gaslit that it's your fault for complying with their demands. The cream of the cake is the vague "if your phone number is publicly known" stuff. Well yeah, every single phone number is publicly known because it's enumerable. Even if it weren't, almost everyone's number is harvested and resold by gray-market data brokers. Sounds like they want to muddy the waters and make it sound like a targeted vulnerability when in reality it is indiscriminate.