[liberationtech] Iranian are bypass the Twitter censorship and sanction by their mobile phones

[Nariman Gharib]

no it doesn't. they blocked this 'trick' and also many Iranian users can't
register to Twitter anymore because it require phone verification on
sign-up page.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Kate Krauss <katie at critpath.org> wrote:

> Does this still work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Katie
>
> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Nariman Gharib <nariman.gh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Basically as you knew Iran is not on the country list of Twitter. I've
>> reached to Twitter and they know about this issue.
>>
>> Iranians are gets very active on Twitter after 2009 Pres.Election till
>> now and the numbers of the users all of the time are growing. It's sad we
>> see Twitter hasn't Iran on the list while Google and other networks are
>> supporting Iran's telephone numbers for give the users the option to enable
>> the 2step verification.
>>
>> so today I wrote an article on my blog and teach iranians how they can
>> active their twitter telephone number(SMS service and active their 2step
>> verification) from inside iran.
>> https://twitter.com/ListenToUs/status/497374522426015744
>> how: actually when you are going to submit a number of twitter website,
>> with Inspect element on chrome you can add +98 on the form and write your
>> in the telephone number field and twitter will send you a text message and
>> everything is going to successful.
>>
>> and many iranians are now have twitter verification on their phones and
>> some of them like this man:
>> https://twitter.com/ziarlarimi/status/497484191613726720 texting from
>> IRAN without using any circumvention tools.
>>
>> I hope twitter will decide to add Iran to the 'INTERFACE' of the
>> website,because on the backend everything is fine.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Nariman
>>
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