Comment by dqv

>As for VOIP numbers not being allowed, that also makes sense; VOIP numbers are extremely cheap and allowing them to be used would defeat the whole purpose of phone verification.

Cool, except whoever or whatever is deciding what is and isn't VOIP is not doing a good job at making that determination. A few years back I ported my old cell phone number to a VOIP provider. I now have a new phone number on a different carrier. $OldPhoneNumber is apparently not a VOIP number and $NewPhoneNumber is. So I had to use the $OldPhoneNumber on a VOIP provider to verify my account because $NewPhoneNumber with a carrier wasn't acceptable.

But hey, it's their closed platform and they can use whatever means of keeping people off of it that they want. I don't really care for it anymore.