Re:Twitter API hacked, user database being sold online
by Max-Ganz-II on Sunday December 25, 2022 @07:49AM
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Yes.
This happened to me.
I made an account, not using a phone number.
I then did not use it, for something like a month.
I posted - and the account was suspended, I was emailed, "you have violated our T&C, please provide your phone number to validate your account".
I may be wrong, but to my eye, they were attempting by deception to trick and force users into handing over their phone numbers.
I explained I had no phone number, and I had not posted at all, so it was hard to see how I had violated the T&C, and the account was unfrozen, and has been fine since then.
This happened to me.
I made an account, not using a phone number.
I then did not use it, for something like a month.
I posted - and the account was suspended, I was emailed, "you have violated our T&C, please provide your phone number to validate your account".
I may be wrong, but to my eye, they were attempting by deception to trick and force users into handing over their phone numbers.
I explained I had no phone number, and I had not posted at all, so it was hard to see how I had violated the T&C, and the account was unfrozen, and has been fine since then.