Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
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#4Something like this happened to me. It certainly prompted me to look for alternatives (e.g., Mastodon).
You can start small: sign into Twitter every other month. IIRC, this will decrease the number of active users they report to investors.
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#5Twitter should have imploded years ago. No one seems to remember that Donald Trump saved Twitter. It was for sale and couldn't find a buyer, no one wanted the CEO position so they bribed the old CEO to step back in, losing TONS of money. Then the at time presidential candidate used Twitter to market his campaign. It's harmful social commentary that forces people/media/influences/etc to use catchy one-liners to spike retweets. People are mad that the media and journalist are overly sensationalizing but Twitter users just feed the machine.
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#6This is the new norm... expect all services to require phone numbers due to spam and propaganda.
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#7Twitter should have imploded years ago. No one seems to remember that Donald Trump saved Twitter. It was for sale and couldn't find a buyer, no one wanted the CEO position so they bribed the old CEO to step back in, losing TONS of money. Then the at time presidential candidate used Twitter to market his campaign. It's harmful social commentary that forces people/media/influences/etc to use catchy one-liners to spike…
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Re: Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
#8Something like this happened to me. It certainly prompted me to look for alternatives (e.g., Mastodon). You can start small: sign into Twitter every other month. IIRC, this will decrease the number of active users they report to investors.
I can't get the article to load (hugged to death?), but I'd imagine the reason that they are finally moving on this is due to combat harassment.
I can't blame Twitter for adding friction to its sign up process because of others abusing the platform.
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#9Anything tied to a phone number is inherently insecure, these things are becoming like SSNs but even more problematic. I haven't had a true phone number in a couple years, but I guess if I ever need to create a new twitter account I will need to get one?
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#10This is the new norm... expect all services to require phone numbers due to spam and propaganda.
I have a really split opinion about this. On the one hand I've seen a lot of really hateful stuff lobbed around on sites like Twitter, and I suspect that linking accounts to phone numbers would dramatically reduce that. On the other hand, I'm not sure I want Twitter (et. al.) knowing my phone number.