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Consider yourself lucky that you were able to have usable accounts.

Whenever I tried to sign up, even years before the recent ownership change, the newly-created account would be automatically locked within minutes, and I'd be forced to give a phone number to unlock it. I wasn't going to do something stupid like that, of course.

That kind of a user experience, even a long time ago, wasn't so nice.

Friendly reminder that Twitter used to (and maybe still does) offer a “sign in with twitter” feature, and that users should review which serviced they signed up to with their twitter identity.

If there is any, either add an email address or find a way to move your data off that peofile.

We should all still blame Elon retroactively. It's not nice to point out that Twitter was a disaster before him.

He's the one who bought that disaster, not us.

I haven't been using twitter for a long time, already. It just felt stupid to even still hold an account.

As the old joke goes, whichever platform you're moving to, the average niceness of both X and that will stand to benefit.

Twitter was infested way before musk bought it.

And frankly, most social networks are today too.