>>155243
Because something you want to see is there. For instance Twitter is the easiest way to dig for journo conflicts of interest, just search the username of the journo and the subject together and see if there's any tweets indicating they're friends or whatever. You don't need a Twitter account to do that, which is why I've never made one, but now that they're blocking images from some accounts for "age-restriction" that might provide a reason for some people.
>>155246
>Fortunately nitter still allows you to see content twitter won't serve you.
Oh, it does? I tried it a while back and it didn't work, but that was soon after the Twitter change so maybe they fixed it.
>Twilio
Tell me whether it still works. I think they sometimes request phone verification themselves, but their blacklists are much less comprehensive so if they do you can probably use a public SMS-receiver number. The account will then come with a non-public number that lasts for a month and can receive Twitter SMS via the website, assuming it still works the same way it worked years ago.