Twitter: Email Confirmation Required Now

Hi
Has anybody noticed that, if you create new account on twitter than you have to confirm that email address that you used while creating account.

I think twitter is trying to reduce spam by introducing such a change.

Thanks

fuckt up

get a catch all email address account and you'll be able to by-pass this

davanth said:

get a catch all email address account and you'll be able to by-pass this

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I didn't get you. Can you please clear me.

If you setup a catchall email account i.e.

*@mydomain.com

you don't even have to create accounts [email protected] will be a VALID email address

ya but i guess he is trying to say that twitter is now requiring you to confirm the email were as before you didnt even have to use a real email and could create an account

SirPC said:

ya but i guess he is trying to say that twitter is now requiring you to confirm the email were as before you didnt even have to use a real email and could create an account

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He understood the question entirely... but since he's a blackhat, he looked for a solution, not an opportunity to bitch about the problem ;-).

His solution is viable; buy a cheap domain, set it up for catchall(you can even use Google Apps for this now) and then mass create twitters, then mass validate.

If you're feeling frisky, code a bot to do it

Anywho, it's probably more about validating live and active users than it is about slowing the speed of spam.

It's important to keep in mind that Twitter is on a quest for the web 2.0 riches, so understanding their level of user engagement is key to their goal.

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Nice tip . thanks. Will give it a try.