Cool.
But to tweet, you need a Twitter account. And as I recall, Twitter pretty much demands verification through a mobile account. Do virtual mobile accounts typically work for it?
But to tweet, you need a Twitter account. And as I recall, Twitter pretty much demands verification through a mobile account. Do virtual mobile accounts typically work for it?
Many services seem to run checking on whether a number is really a mobile number or not. VK (the Russian social network) for one example is a zealot about that and won't let any Twilio numbers through. And Instagram is a lot tighter (better at fake account creation detection) on authentication than Twitter but you can still sign up for Instagram with just an email account in most cases.
I'd be curious though to know if eg Twitter security sends a request over to Twilio (perhaps in a case of an account abuse investigation), if they'd cough up information very willingly. That I don't know. It's a certainty the government can get at it, however. The best bet is to do nothing illegal using a Twilio number, and to assume if a big external service provider (Twitter, Facebook, et al.) needs to get details for some legal reason, they will.
And maybe I don't read enough to trigger roadblocks. Or maybe I just block enough stuff.
Solution is of course to not use twitter.
The horrible interface is probably the main reason why I never got into Twitter. It's very hard to follow stuff, bercause it gets sorted in (for me) useless ways. Plus the fact that even generally interesting people retweet (or even tweet) some cringeworthy stuff.