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That really annoyed me to so I refused, complained, and they allowed me to login again with just my Twitter Id and password. A bit of a pain, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Same here. And the worst is that they made much much more than what they will ever be fined. We can see the same with Uber and other brigand "tech" companies.

And the fines fund the pseudo regulatory bodies in reward for not regulating.

And yet here I am using Twitter without supplying a phone number...