[RonMarken]

Perhaps Twitter needs to make it easier to create accounts anonymously and stop virtue signaling (i.e suspend accounts created over Tor onion-service)

With pseudonymous usage of public services information minimisation to maintain operational-security against private user-data being disclosed by external hackers or rogue insiders is a mantra that needs to be followed religiously.

[lysergia]

I’m six months in and they haven’t asked for a phone number yet. I dread the day when they do. This is where proficiency in the Twilio API comes in handy.

[throwaway292939]

Don't you still have to use an actual phone number when you sign up for Twilio?

[demopathos]

If you trust twilio security policy you can defer the weakness of Twitter policy in favor of the strength of twilio.

[upupandup]

when I started liking "too many" tweets I got hit with it and my mobile carrier (canada btw) refused to deliver txt msgs from Twitter so I could never get verified.

[quickthrower2]

Lucky you. I can't create another twitter account as my number is on a network unreachable by their SMS system. Worst of both worlds for me as when that number was on another network they could verify. So leaked number that I cannot even use to verify a second business account :-(.

[herbst]

That's crazy. I can't remember the last time I wasn't straight up locked within 2 minutes of my first login.

Guess Linux users are bad, or whatever makes them trigger each f*ING time.

[RonMarken]

Created and accessed over Tor or a clearnet connection?

[refulgentis]

Virtue signaling? Preventing completely anonymously accounts doesn't seem to fit that colloquial definition of that, I always assumed it meant taking an action simply for social signalling, that has no benefit to you otherwise.

[RonMarken]

How about the fact Twitter recently launched an official onion-service yet it is claimed by users when attempting to create an account with email over it the account is locked for 'abuse' within short order?

[refulgentis]

I certainly understand why you want to use Tor to create a Twitter account, I guess the disconnect is you seem to feel it is fundamentally and obviously wrong to prevent this, but it does seem fairly clear why you'd offer a service to allow logins yet not signups. And in any case, can't speak to why an individual account got banned