For 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

For 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.