[eddtests]

Nowadays if you create a new account it’ll get briefly banned while they do additional checks to ensure you’re human, which is fixed by giving a phone number. Id almost appreciate just asking for one on signup then the charade

[fossislife]

That's not always the case. Sometimes it asked me for a phone number, but most of the time not when not using a VPN or something similar. But last year I managed to create two Twitter accounts with the Tor browser and some sketchy email address and never got asked for a number, just had to do some captcha after a few minutes.

[eddtests]

I created a few twitter accounts this year for various reasons and all of them had the same number requirement after around 24 hours!

[callalex]

The various Meta properties do this too, except instead of phone numbers they require government ID and headshots. It’s all a scummy dark pattern relying on the sunk cost fallacy.