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Thy have never required a phone number for account sign up. So unless you either a) used it as a form of 2FA, b) you got put into a “time out” for what ever rea
by Crosseye_Jack 4y ago
Thy have never required a phone number for account sign up. So unless you either a) used it as a form of 2FA, b) you got put into a “time out” for what ever reason and Twitter required a phone number to unlock the account, you didn’t have to give them your number.
- MereInterest 4y agoTwitter required a phone number to use the API.
- Crosseye_Jack 4y agoBut not all users are API users. I would say API users are the minority of users.
- tluyben2 4y agoThere was a bug for a while (not sure how long) when account signup with email didn't work. It was going through fine but after everything was set up, you couldn't continue without phone number and it would not activate your account. I'm not even sure if it was a bug or just a test how many people would continue?
- ashwagary 4y agoFlagged IPs probably get different levels of scrutiny.
- johndough 4y agoFor many years now, twitter automatically shadowbans new accounts if they did not supply a phone number during sign up. This is of course just a ploy to collect phone numbers. The reason they give for the ban is is that their terms of service have somehow been violated, even if the account has never posted anything, but the violation magically goes away if you provide a phone number. In the past, you could also write a mail to some support email address, but that took a few weeks even before most twitter employees got fired.
- Crosseye_Jack 4y agoI have a number of twitter accounts. My main does have a phone number attached but the others do not and they are not shadow banned. (Only reason I attached a number to my main is because I needed API access many years ago, for years before that it never had a number attached to it)
- CommanderData 4y agoTwitter has an extremely nasty dark pattern for accuiring your mobile number. So much so if you pay and use a temporary number from services like OnOff. Twitter cleavely detect this and never sends you a verification code. You need to use a number that is likely tied into a major phone network, most people will do this, as for the privacy conscious like me I had no way of circumventing the measures Twitter had in place at the time. It was very frustrating.
- Crosseye_Jack 4y agoWell as of late even big providers are not sending verification codes. My main has a number attached to it (for api reasons), but the other day I needed to log in on my freshly reinstalled laptop and choose phone as my 2FA device was in another room as I was being lazy, and I never got the code even though I must have validated it in the past. It was around the time that Elon tweeted out something about telcos sending out spam sms in twitters name.