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I have noticed that most those services (twitter, Skype and so on) block login without giving phone number...until few months later they automatically unblock. I simply check out in every week, are they removed block or not. Once I was stupid and gave phone number one of those kind services, that was bad idea. Account went into some weird state after giving code received from SMS. So my personal experience: wait, never give phone number.


Ideally, there should be an option to not give it. It’s a security risk for those with MFA elsewhere.


That's odd. I've never given Twitter a phone no. (Granted my account predates their phone no. fetish.) Still use Twitter daily without any issue. Perhaps it's because I'm still logged in and not trying to re-login?


Twitter doesn't seem to care much about established accounts, but every attempt I've made to make a new account under a new name gets suspended.


> Granted my account predates their phone no. fetish

I doubt that - twitter started as an SMS service…


Doubt all you like - that's how it is.




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