Handy tip: buy the cheapest pre-charged SIM and use it for this kind of verifications.
Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
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#22I had this problem when creating a new Twitter account last month. Within minutes after setting up an account via iOS app, was locked out for "suspicious behavior". Didn't even tweet once. Residential IP. They wanted me to add a phone number.
I went to the help section and wrote a pissed off message to customer support...if they wanted my phone # they should have asked for it instead of accusing me. Shortly after, my account started working again.
For anyone else with this issue, try: https://help.twitter.com/forms/signin
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
are daily active users not a thing that are reported to investors
MAU (monthly active users) is typically the metric they look at.
Twitter specifically said they will no longer share their MAU numbers and will only report "monetizable daily active users" going forward: https://www.recode.net/2019/2/7/18215204/twitter-daily-activ...
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#24Something 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.
Instead of only logging in every other month you might as well ditch the service completely, no?
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#25They have been doing this for any account registered from a VPN or Tor. However, you can simply appeal the block and tell them you haven't tweeted and not broken any rules.
They will send you an automated mail, offering to validate your phone number, or reply to the mail if your problem is not solved. Just reply to the mail.
Unfortunately, processing the request takes anywhere between 10 minutes and 2 weeks; usually a couple days at least. I assume this is on purpose to make it cumbersome for spammers.
They always reply with the same boilerplate, but the account will be unlocked:
Your account is now unlocked, and we’re sorry for the inconvenience.
Twitter has automated systems that find and remove automated spam accounts and it looks like your account got caught up in one of these spam groups by mistake. This sometimes happens when an account exhibits automated behavior in violation of the Twitter Rules (https://twitter.com/rules).
Again, we apologize for the inconvenience. Please do not respond to this email as replies will not be monitored.Re: Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number
#26This is the new norm... expect all services to require phone numbers due to spam and propaganda.
Which is almost funny, because phone numbers have been so devalued by marketers.
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#27This is the new norm... expect all services to require phone numbers due to spam and propaganda.
spam and propaganda
When they tell you it's not about the money... it's about the money.
When they tell you they want your phone number for anything other than making more money... it's about the money.
Edit: -4, huh? Really? Have people forgotten what Facebook just did? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/you-gave-facebook-your...
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#28Well, at least you can still more or less get burner phones, right? Still, what troubles me more is that most terrorist attacks that are publicized will go completely uncensored on Twitter, but if a conservative voice lets out a peep of the slightest offense, instant ban.
1984 was not a playbook, but Silicon Valley loves it too much to drop it any time soon.
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#29Twitter 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…
twitter means the president can talk directly to the american people in a very accessible way
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#30This is the new norm... expect all services to require phone numbers due to spam and propaganda.
I assume by "propaganda" what you mean is "deplatforming".
Much easier to keep people who emit thoughtcrime off of your platform if they have to keep getting new mobile numbers each time they are banned.