Tor Users Must Now Provide A Phone Number To Open A New Twitter Account

[Victorious Secret]

 

 

While this may seem like "DAE CENSORSHIP>!!?" lets realize that this isn't out of the norm for Twitter. If you happen to have an IP or some other such pattern of behaviour that would suggest to twitter that you  like spamming, they'll take actions. 

 

Tor can be used for private means, so if someone is truly desperate to spam twitter, they could do it that way. I mean, people use Tor to get around forum bans and such, so why not Twitter? This will probably deter casual spammers, anyone else will be fully committed to spam away. 

 

 

Twitter does not block or force Tor users to phone verify in order to sign up. Occasionally, signups and logins may be asked to phone verify as they may exhibit behavior similar to spam. This is applicable to all IPs and not just Tor IPs.

 

However, we repeated the sign-up process more than a dozen time and each time a phone number was required, while many on Twitter also found the same. The exception, it seems, is for browsers like Mozilla which can run Tor. In the latter case, Twitter does not appear to be requiring phone verification. At the least, it seems that more connections via Tor are being flagged as potentially spam accounts and thus require phone verification.

 

The U.S. company doesn’t mandate its users to associate their account with a mobile number — that’s optional — but its new security system will use short-term suspensions to get the digits of serial trolls. The idea here is to find something identifiable that can be used to trace them if they open new accounts, as many serial abuses do.

 

 

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/02/twitter-tor-phone-verification/

[TheSLSAMG]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/321183-twitter-forces-tor-users-to-give-up-phone-number/

 

You got hardscoped, at least by a good news reporter.

[Victorious Secret]

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/321183-twitter-forces-tor-users-to-give-up-phone-number/

 

You got hardscoped, at least by a good news reporter.

 

Damn. 

 

VS down. 

 

call the medics. That was one special Google fail. At least I got murdered by a worthy poster. 

[cesrai]

Damn. 

 

VS down. 

 

call the medics. That was one special Google fail. At least I got murdered by a worthy poster. 

Google fail, sure why not make some unreasanoble reasons.

 

 

/jk