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

[Kate Krauss]

Ack--too bad. Thank you for the update. --Katie

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Nariman Gharib <nariman.gh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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