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		jordanwallwork on March 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter forces all new users to enter a valid phon... Seems like it would make a lot of sense for them to offer both options; either would discourage bots, and you'd give people the choice whether to go the free route or the privacy-conscious route

hombre_fatal on March 26, 2019 [–]

Surely a phone number is no more identifying than a credit card payment in the age of KYC.

And accepting a cryptocurrency would probably have little impact on all the lucrative scams that get spammed around Twitter.

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