I didn’t have a Twitter account but I needed one for a day.

Creating a Twitter account requires the solving of five “prove I’m not a robot” puzzles. They are not easy. There are two images from different perspectives and - non-intuitively - you need to click on arrows to move a person icon in one image to the same place it is on the other image.

The images have slightly different perspectives. It’s not always obvious what the arrow buttons will do.

I got the fourth (of five) wrong. Did I have to do it again? No, it took me back to the beginning: five more to do.

If Elon doesn’t want Twitter users, he could just say.

  • @galaxies_collideEnglish
    22•1 year ago

    My assumption is they’re using this to train an AI model.

  • N3Cr0English
    21•1 year ago

    Back in the day, Twitter immediately banned my fresh account (my first sign-up there) because I didn’t provide my phone number. Therefor they sent me their newsletter spam and I had to write them 3 support tickets until they eventually deleted my account.

    Then I tried again with a trash mail account and it also happened there.

    Twitter has always been dead to me.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

      something similar happened to me, i finished setting up my account then i decided to change my profile picture to a band’s logo that i was a fan of, my account got immediately banned for impersonation lmfao

  • The HobbyistEnglish
    18•1 year ago

    If you only care about browsing twitter passively, I recommend Nitter. It’s an alternative front end which displays the twitter content (almost all of it, not spaces) without JavaScript, ads, trackers etc. You can find instances here:

    https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

    There is also an extension for Firefox and chromium called privacy redirect which you can setup to redirect twitter and other websites to alternative front-ends.