You’re not required to give twitter a phone number, but that does require sending off a quick message to @TwitterSupport or @TwitterSafety from the email address you used to create the account.
Fake accounts have either stolen addresses or were created using throw-aways.
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The only people who are truly worried about this are folks who rely on bot followers to boost their numbers and people who can’t quite manage to read the TOS... or think their way out of a wet paper bag.
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