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 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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