On Mon, 14 Sep 2015, Mike Perry wrote: > Colin Mahns: > > * Tempest <[email protected]> [2015-09-14 00:08:44 +0000]: > > > > >to sum up, twitter now appears to be desiring phone numbers from tor > > >users in order to use their service. without feedback, i expect this > > >will get worse. over the past 30 days, twitter has regularly locked me > > >out and required password resets. this is the first time i've been > > >required to provide a phone number to get my account unlocked. > > > > Sadly Twitter seems to have been enforcing this over the past year[0] or > > so, and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. IIRC, Twitter tries to > > do this in an attempt to try and curtail perceived abuse and/or trolls > > from using Twitter as a platform, but they go about it in the worst way > > possible. > > > > The hashtag #TwitterTorLockout[1] has been used by several members of > > the community (including devs) to voice their complaints about Twitter > > doing this, but as you can see nothing has improved.
I don't have a phone number behind my Twitter account and it just asks me to confirm my email address. Not perfect, but way better. ~Marcin -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
