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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by bena on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:35PM (#32401077)
I mean, originally twitter was an SMS based service. It was made for phones.
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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by aendruk on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @03:17PM (#32402704)
Yep, Twitter got my phone number because at the time 40404 was the only mobile interface, and half the point of the service.
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