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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by Mikushi on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @03:49AM (#14137111)
Same experience for a writer friend, convinced him he could get some following on Twitter, created an account got promptly locked and to boot the phone confirmation never came through.

Also Twitter sucks, that's why it won't grow, it's mostly bots anyway. (I would know, I wrote tons for it, laughably easy to grow massive accounts under their nose)

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Re:Why Twitter Is Failing to Grow by lambdadmitry on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:42AM (#14139185)
Do you think it's strange to complain about

1) Twitter requiring a phone number during signup

2) Twitter having a lot of bots

in the same message? How are they supposed to curb bot registrations if not by checking email/phone combo? I get it that it's trendy to complain about Twitter, but why employing self-contradictions for that?

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