Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number

Re:Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number by daybreak on Monday March 25, 2019 @06:56PM (#19487546)

I 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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Re:Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number by dx87 on Monday March 25, 2019 @07:33PM (#19487800)

I had the same thing happen. During signup it asked for my phone number but said it was optional. A couple of minutes after I created my account, it was locked and they said it required a phone number to prove I wasn't a bot. I just closed out my account because I only planned to use it to follow some people anyway.

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Re:Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number by brianpgordon on Monday March 25, 2019 @08:25PM (#19488099)

The exact same thing happened to me a few months ago.

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Re:Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number by baroffoos on Monday March 25, 2019 @09:13PM (#19488384)

I wonder how anyone actually uses twitter because I constantly get messages that I am rate limited/blocked and when I signed up for an account it was quickly locked when I had posted nothing. Its like they actively want no one to use it.

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Re:Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number by Evidlo on Monday March 25, 2019 @10:58PM (#19488918)

This happened to me on Discord. I ended up just getting the admins to bridge the room into Matrix and joining there.

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Re:Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number by jdreyfuss on Monday March 25, 2019 @08:07PM (#19488001)

If you contact support and say you don't have a phone number, they unblock your account as well. That worked for me.

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Re:Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phone number by alexbecker on Monday March 25, 2019 @07:37PM (#19487832)

Also happened to me. I ended up giving them a Google Voice #.

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