An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter

Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by traceroute66 on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @12:59PM (#32400564)

> I'm so sick of this kind of victim blaming, you're forced to add a phone number to use twitter.

I had some old accounts that did not require a phone number.

At least until I wanted to enable TOTP 2FA.

At which point the numnuts at Twitter would not just let me "just" enable TOTP, I was forced to provide a phone number (which, to add insult to injury, for at long time they refused to accept because they would only send messages to a limited number of carriers).

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by gojomo on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:10PM (#32401598)

And then Twitter misused authentication phone numbers for marketing: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/05/twitter-p...

And also used a sketchy service provider who was selling personal info about Twitter users to governments: https://9to5mac.com/2022/02/09/twitter-2fa-text-privacy/

Twitter has been habitually careless with user info & user privacy.

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by MoebiusStrip on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:37PM (#32402044)

Twitter decides when to hit you with the demand for a phone number. Try sh!itposting for a couple weeks. That usually does the trick.

This may be Twitter's best anti-bot measure, although state-sponsored troll farms will likely be able to afford all the SIM cards they want and need.

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