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I am trying to activate that as we speak, but I never get the SMS. I tried 6 times in the last 3 hours. I guess it's overloaded or broken at least for my phone number (german mobile phone).

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I had a terrible time figuring this out too, because the mobile app offers it and provides no feedback as to why it never succeeds. The reason is that Twitter only supports a very limited number of mobile carrier networks. Here's the support page listing them and you can see there are none for Germany: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170024?lang=de#

All I can suggest is to keep trying every few months. I have been trying for years. My carrier still isn't listed but it finally started working about two weeks ago for me (I'm not in Germany though). Now I have to hope it keeps working with my still unlisted carrier or I risk getting locked out of my account. At least the bad guys are locked out too...

I work for a company that utilizes texting to customers, we do this now via email, ie 1233451234@vtext.com for Verizon and there are others for the different carriers. These carriers are beginning to put a halt to this and are starting to require you to sign up and pay them to send SMS messages. Soon my company will not be able to send any SMS without paying the carriers. Perhaps this is the problem?

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