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A comment on Ask HN: Why Can't I Sign Up with Medium Other Than Through Facebook or Twitter?.

Re:Ask HN: Why Can't I Sign Up with Medium Other Than Throug... by speedyapoc on Saturday February 14, 2015 @10:42PM (#9051706)
They probably want to associate content with actual people instead of screen names.
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Re:Ask HN: Why Can't I Sign Up with Medium Other Than Throug... by MichaelCrawford on Sunday February 15, 2015 @02:54AM (#9052045)
I personally have no problem with using my real name, as I do here at HN.

However if I signed up with FB or Twitter, it would be far easier to automate the collection of my data.

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