(Not that I actually recommend you do this, of course.
But if you really want a lurker Twitter account, heres what you oughta do.)
Then I tried setting up a burner phone number throughHushed, but Twitter claimed the phone number was invalid.
I was, however, able to add a new email address to my Gmail accountwhich Twitter accepted.
Name your burner account
Your new Twitter account will need both a handle and a name.
The handle is the part that goes after the @ sign, like my Twitter handle@hellothefuture.
(Its spooky because of the baked blood.)
The name is what everyone will be looking at anyway, so choose it carefully.
In my case, it suggested I call myself Nicola Stinson, which I swear is just a coincidence!
This means following users so their tweets will appear in your Twitter feed.
(In other words, when Mitt Romney toldThe Atlantic, What do they call me, alurker?
he was unequivocally wrong.)
If you plan to de-lurk and begin contributing to the discourse, be careful.
you’re able to create a private list instead.
There are two kinds of Twitter lists: public and private.
If you create a private Twitter list, nobody will know about the list or its members except you.
If you have other suggestions on how to lurk without becoming a Pierre Delecto, let us know!
