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		bena on Aug 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An incident impacting 5M accounts and private info... I mean, originally twitter was an SMS based service. It was made for phones.

aendruk on Aug 9, 2022 [–]

Yep, Twitter got my phone number because at the time 40404 was the only mobile interface, and half the point of the service.

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