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by marcooliv 1091 days ago
Why is so terrible to just open an account? what a drama you're using a service that costs money to run. Everyone here likes to be highly paid but keep complaining for those things. maybe I'm missing something here. Use temp email, create an account and that's it.
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If that's the way they (twitter in this case) wanted it, they should have started it that way. May be then, governments and individuals wouldn't have started sharing important information on a platform that requires their audience to forgo their anonymity.
Because if twitter decides that your email (address) is too temp, they might ask you for a phone number. And burner phones without (or with low hurdle) registration / verification aren't a thing everywhere.
I tried to do this several months ago and Twitter immediately shut down my account, demanding a phone number if I wanted to proceed.