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twitter is the scummiest social media on the planet
p0rtalGeek:
alright so let me say that twitter is scummy as all hell. now, at the moment i've been working on a website, and so i decided to give it a twitter account. then, this pops up.
now at this point it gave be a random twitter handle that i didnt want, but also locked my account. now, i've tried at least 6 accounts and every single account i make for anything leads to this screen. why?
BECAUSE IT'S A SCAM
This is designed to trick people into giving in and putting in their tracking id phone number and let twitter get yet another footing in your privacy. And this isn't even touching on their machine learning stuff and censorship.
SteveJenkins:
oh no the social media wants to combat bots by asking for a phone number how horrible they are truly invading privacy
--- Quote from: p0rtalGeek on May 20, 2017, 02:53:40 AM ---now at this point it gave be a random twitter handle that i didnt want.
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it literally doesn't do this unless you mean your display name which you can change anyway. if your handle is taken by someone else it suggests variants for you to use iirc
take off your tin hat or don't use social media
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: SteveJenkins on May 20, 2017, 03:19:42 AM ---oh no the social media wants to combat bots by asking for a phone number how horrible they are truly invading privacy
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Punished Toxicology:
they banned jon crumb so forget TWITTER
Tactical Nuke:
twitter is a scum-sucking piece of stuff but not for the reasons you listed