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Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by pmachinery on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:39AM (#23361488)
All this bot stuff/millions of fake accounts amazes me.

Whenever I sign up at Twitter (entirely because some companies do support there) the account is flagged within a few minutes for "suspicious activity", such as making a coffee and coming back to the PC or searching for the company I want to contact.

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Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by Simulacra on Saturday May 30, 2020 @10:39AM (#23361499)
Possibly because of your IP? Any ideas why that is happening?
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Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by pmachinery on Saturday May 30, 2020 @11:05AM (#23361676)
I suspect it's because I don't give a phone number. I have no idea why they allow signups without a number though, if that's the case.
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Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by vntok on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:05PM (#23362065)
Allowing signups without phone numbers serves as a honeypot.
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