“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API”

Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by mlrtime on Friday February 03, 2023 @07:05AM (#34640065)

It is trivial to buy 1000's of phone numbers with SMS all available through APIs. You don't even need to keep them. The grey web is filled with many of these services.

If I looked hard enough I could probably buy 10000 verified twitter accounts with API access right now, aged 1 year or older.

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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by flangola7 on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:33AM (#34642382)

Where can you buy actual mobile phone numbers? (Not VoIP numbers)

I would think mobile carriers keep that in their own house

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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by numpad0 on Friday February 03, 2023 @12:14PM (#34644206)

I think I've encountered some nefarious discussions around obtaining SS7 bulk access endpoint and intercepting SMS?

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Re:“Starting February 9, we will no longer support free acce... by anigbrowl on Friday February 03, 2023 @03:43PM (#34647472)

Yup. PVAs can be had for a couple of $, with the price going up if they're 'warmed' (with a history of innocuous activity, usually liking celebrity tweets, retweeting the occasional breaking news story or heartwarming puppy video etc).

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