Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without an account

Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by adhesive_wombat on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:22PM (#30117594)

Last time I tried, they allowed me to sign up without a phone number, but then almost immediately hit with a "we think you're sus and have blocked you, enter a phone number to unblock".

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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by pseudo0 on Friday January 28, 2022 @12:37PM (#30117818)

They seem to require a phone number for all new accounts. My guess is that they A/B tested it, and locking accounts after creation had better metrics than requiring it during the sign up process.

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