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Re:Twitter's new Tor onion service by Stevvo on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:31PM (#30617413)
Originally Twitter was over SMS. That's why Tweets were limited to 140 characters; it's all you could fit. So they did have a reason to ask for phone numbers from the beginning.
Re:Twitter's new Tor onion service by barbazoo on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:54PM (#30617751)
Ok but now, what feels like a 100 years later, they don't anymore. It's just another data point to identify users and sell that information eventually.
Re:Twitter's new Tor onion service by maerF0x0 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:55PM (#30617772)
And today the hard requirement is???
Re:Twitter's new Tor onion service by 0xdeadb00f on Friday March 11, 2022 @08:45AM (#30639792)
Money. They want money.