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What you're saying is, this has increased the cost of creating a Twitter spam account from practically zero cents to... what, 50 cents an number? A few dollars per number?

That's a huge leap, and it sounds like requiring a phone number is a great way to increase the cost of spamming.




Especially considering your average user already has a phone number and its basically free to verify. It only has a cost for spammers.


It has a non-negligible privacy cost.




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