Twitter says it has suspended "a large network of fake accounts" and many others for abusing an API feature that let them match phone numbers to usernames (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Twitter says it has suspended “a large network of fake accounts” and many others for abusing an API feature that let them match phone numbers to usernames  —  Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” …