“I tried to sign up and left as soon as they wouldn’t let me continue without providing a phone number.”
That’s because most Twitter accounts are bots
Why are so many people so desperate for acceptance that they’re denying that Parler is collecting PI when you can just go on to their account creation page and see for yourself? If a person or organization does something bad like if it looks like a honeypot to trick conservatives you should call it out. It doesn’t matter if they claim to be conservative or working for conservatives. Stuff like this isn’t new. There was an app called Candid that was marketed to conservative youtubers that ended up being a scam to train anti ‘hate speech’ algorithms. There are so many good projects and people out there. No need to hitch your wagons to bad shady ones.