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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by sneak on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @12:58PM (#32400546)
In Germany and other countries you have to show government ID to get a GSM number. Phone numbers are like bank accounts: strongly linked to official name and identity.

This advice is bullshit.

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by croes on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:11PM (#32400731)
But you can abandon a number after you registered on Twitter. Doesn't help against agencies but against scrappers
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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by lynndotpy on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:29PM (#32400979)
My very recent experience contradicts this. I removed my number and was immediately locked out until I added it back.
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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by jrockway on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:11PM (#32401612)
I don't think you tell Twitter that you canceled your cell phone contract. They don't need to know.
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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by soperj on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @03:47PM (#32403235)
They mean you can get a different phone number, not remove it from twitter.
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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by lynndotpy on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @08:27AM (#32410773)
Ah, I misunderstood that comment entirely. This makes more sense
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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by vlovich123 on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:27PM (#32400963)
Doesn't that make account takeovers easy?
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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by croes on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:49AM (#32410001)
My social media accounts are all disposable, so it doesn't really matter to me.
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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by vlovich123 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:59PM (#32429497)
Sure. You understand how that's not necessarily the case for many other people, right?
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