[gojomo]

Similarly ironic: that Twitter essentially now requires a phone number for continued use of their service – by freezing all new users' accounts, soon after minor activity, until a phone number is provided. But, they won't let you use that phone endpoint for reading/posting.

[yepguy]

That infuriated me last year when I finally tried to create a Twitter account.

During registration I was given a choice between providing an email address or a phone number. I provided an email address, only to immediately have my account locked until I provided a phone number. Well, I wouldn't have given my email address if I knew a phone number was required anyway! It wouldn't even let me visit my account settings to delete my account, and I never got a reply when I emailed Twitter support.

[jo6gwb]

I had a similar experience. In my case they allowed my account to be opened without a phone number as I requested that they delete the account because I didn't want to provide my phone number. I deleted my account soon afterward anyway.

[mlindner]

That's pretty interesting. I've had a twitter account that has no phone number and no email for a very long time. It's never been blocked.

[Avamander]

If you've had the account for very long it's probably grandfathered.

[mikemac]

Be careful, my 10 year old account was permanently suspended without warning and support is no help; I suspect it's because I didn't have a phone number on my profile.

[djsumdog]

I had one account that got locked because of that and it took a lot of digging to find the right support link, but eventually I made a support request saying I didn't want to give them my phone number and violate my privacy and they finally unlocked that account. It wasn't easy though.