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Why would you not want an account on a website you rely on? It's one thing to complain that your occasional visits to twitter are more inconvenient now. But if you would go so far as to say that people rely on them, then it seems like a silly hill to die on for those people to resist creating an account.

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For me, it’s because I’m on my work machine. I don’t move my personal credentials to my work machine. (In fact, I moved over to my phone to write this comment.)

We could discuss that aspect—sharing accounts on computers that don’t belong to me—but that’s why I’m often thwarted from reading content. I have the account, just not on me.

Any reason not to create a work twitter account?

Because you need another email and phone number?

The obvious solution is still for Twitter to not suck.

You can add up to 10 accounts per phone number, fwiw. It just kind of seems like people are investing more effort into coming up with reasons they don't want to or can't create a twitter account than it would take to just create an account :/

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/phone-numb...

Juste create a new account every time

No, please, you go first.

Because I don't want to give a phone number to facebook or twitter just to have an account to read some content.

Then don't use it

They don't ask for a phone number until you post something that alerts the Ministry of Truth. Then your home page and any page you try to visit is replaced with a form to verify who you are.

I have four accounts that have been soft-locked this way. The whole point in my use is I do not want an identity tied to them.

It slows down (but doesn’t completely prevent) the creation of spam and grief accounts. It’s a tradeoff I’m willing to make.

But the user is not interested in posting (or they would have an account already). They are only creating an account because twitter is making them.

Twitter doesn't seem to have an option of a read-only account, where a phone number is only required to post.

Plenty of people use websites (including this one!) without accounts to just browse around. I get my comments linked around all the time, and the freedom to share this information is a good thing for the internet. Putting up a login wall or other annoyances makes me cautious to want to share Twitter links with other people, or even perhaps want to post there in the first place if it’ll reduce my audience.

> Why would you not want an account on a website you rely on?

Since creating an account is both more work and causes privacy violations, the obvious question is the other way around. Why would I even want to create an account if not fundamentally necessary?

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