Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching its URL with a HTTP GET

Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by sdan on Friday December 18, 2020 @01:57AM (#25464539)

In the recent past, I've seen Twitter harshly ban account I randomly make. Sometimes its weeks before they ask for a phone number and if you don't have a real number (iirc they check against VoIP) they won't unrestrict you. If you have the same IP as other account I think they also might auto restrict you.

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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by hertzrat on Friday December 18, 2020 @02:34AM (#25464724)

They banned my account for unnamed terms of use violations after my first post saying “well, I finally made a Twitter account.” Their support replied with “queries will not be responded to.” It was for the best

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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by nebalee on Friday December 18, 2020 @12:57PM (#25469865)

When they locked my freshly created account and didn't let me use it unless I gave them my phone number I mailed them and told them I would not do so for privacy reasons. My account was unlocked the next day.

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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by encom on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:25AM (#25466050)

Several years ago I tried to make a Twitter account. It got banned before I posted anything. I hadn't even subscribed to any users. I was going through the settings, and then \bam\, banned for being a bot, or some such nonsense. Nothing of value was lost.

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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by 5560675260 on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:34AM (#25466097)

Twitter aggressively tries to get phone numbers from new users - providing it is the main way to get unbanned in cases like this.

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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by encom on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:40AM (#25466130)

Unless you're my mother, or maybe if you're part of my immediate family, you're not getting my phone number.

American giant corporation with questionable ethics: hard no.

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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by 5560675260 on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:53AM (#25466225)

Yeah, I had to get a separate number just to please twitter's automation.

Their approach is somewhat understandable - stopping bots is a hard problem, phone number in theory represents a material cost and a hurdle to someone who wants to rapidly register thousands of new accounts.

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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by iso1210 on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:20AM (#25468532)

Don't you have a burner phone/sim for these types of requests?

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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by encom on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:32AM (#25468678)

This is brought up every time this subject is discussed. Is a burner phone a normal thing that regular people have?

But no, I don't have a burner phone. I'm not going to buy a phone and a SIM just as some kind of non-solution to tech companies having a hard-on for invading peoples privacy.

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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by iso1210 on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:53AM (#25468960)

I have an old phone (who doesn't) which I leave plugged in on my desk, with a £5 payg sim card.

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