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aanm1988 on March 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How would you turn Twitter around?

You don't have to give them a phone number. They will let you sign up without it.

Then flag immediately as a bot and refuse to let you do anything without a phone number.

Lame Twitter. Lame.

wapz on March 1, 2017 [–]

Yup I made an account several years ago to tweet to a support staff because I couldn't login. The next day my account was "suspended" or banned for something like "being a bot." Never looked back.

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