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Twitter suspends your account if you remove your phone number

14 points by ifvictr ↗ HN
I found out two weeks ago after removing it because I thought it was no longer needed after I switched away from SMS-based 2FA. No warning or anything at all in the UI that indicated the removal would result in a suspension, and they don't even let you go back to your settings to re-add it!

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ddtaylor
My guess is that they have some kind of scoring system and having a phone number increases your "trust" score. When you removed it your trust score went below some threshold.
el_dev_hell
Tested with a personal tech project account and that's not the case for me.
dmlittle
It might take a few days before it gets suspended. A side project account of mine was suspended and it took me 9 months to get it back.
el_dev_hell
Certainly possible (I'll report back if that's the case).

I think the argument by @ddtaylor is more probable (that Twitter is using a "trust score" type metric to determine account suspensions).