Hi John, On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:41 PM, John Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> This series of posts conflicts about three different problems. It's > hard to tell what you're having an issue with: Government censorship, > lack of SMS, or 2-factor in the places. > > From what I know: > > 1. If any censorship of Twitter is going on, it's Iran, and not > Twitter that is censoring the communications. If the telcos are > blocking messages from Twitter's SMS source, it's the telcos. > > 2. It's possible Twitter doesn't have a business relationship with any > SMS carriers in the country, so that can break phone verification. You > can still download the client on ios or android and use the code > generation in the client to verify a device, if Twitter is reachable > across the Internet from Iran. Google does? Facebook does? you can't activate your 2step verification via app without adding your phone number in Twitter as far as I know. > > 3. Who blocked this "Trick" of modifying the page with +98? The page > is completely in SSL, so if that change isn't working anymore then > most likely, Twitter modified the page. > Twitter did that. > > 4. "I wonder if there's a way to get Twitter to remove the restriction > for users based in Iran." -- This is a problem that the Iranian > government needs to solve, not Twitter. > Yes you are right. But 'I think' Twitter have a concern about activists and high profile internet users in Iran, because the verification code comes from a text message to the phone number, it's easy for the Government or IRGC to find those Twitter accounts owners. > > It's easier to figure out how to fix these things when you're clear in > the way that you express the problem. > You are right and I'm sorry. > > -j > > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Griffin Boyce <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I wonder if Twitter restricts accounts to one per phone number. Phone > > verification is readily bypassed with something like twilio, but only the > > *most* advanced users would be able to pull this off. It would be worth > > setting up an app to allow Iranian users to bypass it semi-automatically, > > but spambots and abusers would *decimate* it. > > > > I wonder if there's a way to get Twitter to remove the restriction for > > users based in Iran. There's not really a good reason for it in the first > > place =/ > > > > ~Griffin > > > > Nariman Gharib wrote: > >> > >> no it doesn't. they blocked this 'trick' and also many Iranian users > >> can't register to Twitter anymore because it require phone > >> verification on sign-up page. > >> > >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Kate Krauss <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Does this still work? > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> > >>> Katie > >>> > >>> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Nariman Gharib > >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hi, > >>>> Basically as you knew Iran is not on the country list of Twitter. > >>>> I've reached to Twitter and they know about this issue. > >>>> > >>>> Iranians are gets very active on Twitter after 2009 Pres.Election > >>>> till now and the numbers of the users all of the time are growing. > >>>> It's sad we see Twitter hasn't Iran on the list while Google and > >>>> other networks are supporting Iran's telephone numbers for give > >>>> the users the option to enable the 2step verification. > >>>> > >>>> so today I wrote an article on my blog and teach iranians how they > >>>> can active their twitter telephone number(SMS service and active > >>>> their 2step verification) from inside iran. > >>>> https://twitter.com/ListenToUs/status/497374522426015744 [1] > >>>> > >>>> how: actually when you are going to submit a number of twitter > >>>> website, with Inspect element on chrome you can add +98 on the > >>>> form and write your in the telephone number field and twitter will > >>>> send you a text message and everything is going to successful. > >>>> > >>>> and many iranians are now have twitter verification on their > >>>> phones and some of them like this man: > >>>> https://twitter.com/ziarlarimi/status/497484191613726720 [2] > >>>> texting from IRAN without using any circumvention tools. > >>>> > >>>> I hope twitter will decide to add Iran to the 'INTERFACE' of the > >>>> website,because on the backend everything is fine. > >>>> > >>>> Thanks > >>>> Nariman > > > > > > -- > > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of > > list guidelines will get you moderated: > > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, > > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > > [email protected]. > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations > of list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. > Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. > -- PGP: 0xa53963936999cbb6
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