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Comment by dmak | Hacker News Reader

"Please Provide us with the following: ... 1. Your public Twitter handle 2. Your blog 3. Your company or personal website 4. Your public Facebook profile"

What? Is this a common procedure now?

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I guess I'm a spambot. I have no twitter handle, no personal blog, my company website is a large corporate site with no mention of me, and my facebook profile is completely barren.

Same here I don't have any of the mentioned items.

It's so weird to see things like 'Twitter account' and 'Facebook account' being 'assumed'.

They are just two private companies why should we (directly/indirectly) force everyone to have one?

Email I'm fine with, it's a open technology.

It's only a matter of time until we turn Twitter and Facebook into more open technologies like email. I sure hope to see that happen.

This type of requirement is a solid reason for me to avoid DO rather than the non-specific issue that the OP ran into. I don't use twitter or facebook, and the reason that I've considered DO was to host a blog and company website. So if they were to bring me down for unknown reasons, I wouldn't be able to pass their extraneous id requirements. As a result, they are off of my consideration list. From some other comments in this thread, it sounds like Linode is the better way to go.

That's roughly the procedure I use to make sure people aren't slimeballs when I rent my house out to them on AirBNB. I imagine it would also be very useful for determining that someone's an actual human.

Seems like so. I've been a customer of DO for 7 months and they ask me for these.

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