> January 2022, we received a report
And they did not give notice to users. GDPR breach.
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed but, in what jurisdiction does Twitter require phone numbers?
All of them. You don't need to provide one on sign up, but your account will be soft banned typically in a couple of hours until you provide one. So it's a requirement that they aren't forthcoming about.
I have an account that doesn’t have one and works fine. I wonder why they don’t always require it.
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#93>If you operate a pseudonymous Twitter account, we understand the risks an incident like this can introduce and deeply regret that this happened. 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'm so sick of this kind of victim blaming, you're forced to add a phone number to use twitter.
Fucking vile victim blaming.
Twitter should not be requiring phone numbers, especially when they don't care enough to protect them.
This is why we should get back to protocols for communication instead of platforms.
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#945.4mm == some
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#95Sounds like something that should have been found during pen testing.
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#96> January 2022, we received a report And they did not give notice to users. GDPR breach.
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#97I believe this is the vulnerability reported to Twitter which awarded $5000 from its bug bounty program.
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#98This evidence Twitter has 5.4mm actual accounts?
Could be that they have 5.4M accounts with a phone number.
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#99Re: An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter
#100>If you operate a pseudonymous Twitter account, we understand the risks an incident like this can introduce and deeply regret that this happened. 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'm so sick of this kind of victim blaming, you're forced to add a phone number to use twitter.
Twitter would actively block one time numbers. This seems like a lie. I tried to use onoff numbers with Twitter on multiple occasions but failed to receive anything. They are being very misleading here.
-- not only do they block one time numbers - google voice numbers - etc - they claim you CAN sign up with just an email account - let you - and then 30 minutes later automatically lock your account and tell you the only way to verify it is with a number - I was setting up an account a week ago for a client and I eventually gave up - because I was sick of being lied to by their UI --