The most common way to discover your Twitter friends is to type their username into Twitter’s search box. Nevertheless, what if you want to follow, contact, read their tweets, or reply to their tweets as soon as now? There’s another way to find their Twitter page if you have their phone number. That’s all there is to it. But, this will not work if your friend does not allow others to locate them using their phone number. If that’s the case, you can look for them using their email address (if you have it) or their name. If neither option worked, you’d have to ask them about their username. Let’s go through how to find someone on Twitter by phone number in greater depth.

How to Find Someone on Twitter Using Their Phone Number?

Years ago, Twitter users were not required to enter and verify their phone number because their email address sufficed. Nevertheless, in order to make accounts more secure, a phone number is nearly always required nowadays since it is used for two-step verification or multi-factor authentication.

When you link your phone number to your Twitter account, anytime someone attempts to log in to your account — whether you or someone else — Twitter will issue a one-time pin that is required to access your account. This stops hackers from accessing or manipulating your account without your permission. If your friend has allowed the possibility for anybody to find them on Twitter using their phone number, their profile will appear if you sync your contacts to your Twitter account. These are the steps to take:

1. Launch Twitter. You’ll need to use a phone or tablet to continue since you can only sync your contacts using a phone. The app icon is a bluebird, and pressing it will launch it.
2. Tap your profile icon. It can be found in the upper left corner of your screen and will make a menu to slide out from the left.
3. Choose Settings and Privacy. This can be found at the bottom of the menu.

4. Choose Privacy and safety. This menu option is at the center of the menu, next to a shield icon.

5. Choose Discoverability and Contacts. It’s at the bottom of the “Your Twitter activity” area, right next to a magnifying glass with an avatar icon in the center.

6. Turn on the option next to Sync address book contacts. If the app requests permission to access your contacts, tap Allow to proceed. If this switch is already turned on when you arrive, tap it twice to turn it off and back on. Turning it off will not delete existing Twitter contacts, but putting it back on will cause Twitter to check your contacts for any new phone numbers associated with an account.

If your friend still doesn’t show up after that, they may have disabled the possibility to be found using their phone number. Instead, contact them and get their Twitter username or ask for the link to their account.

How to Stop Others from Finding You on Twitter Using Your Phone Number

Did you know that hackers and spammers can save random phone numbers on their phones and then use social media platforms like Twitter to determine who owns those phone numbers? It is best to disable it if you are concerned about your safety and wish to keep your phone number or identity private. Disabling the option to be found using a phone number is similar to the approach we discussed previously. Nevertheless, unlike with contacts, you can adjust your discoverability from a computer or a mobile device, not just your phone. Just go to www.twitter.com, log in to your account, and then proceed as follows:

1. Launch Twitter. The app icon is a bluebird, and pressing it will launch it.
2. Tap your profile icon. It can be found in the upper left corner of your screen and will make a menu to slide out from the left.
3. Choose Settings and Privacy. This can be found at the bottom of the menu.
4. Choose Privacy and safety. This menu choice is at the center of the menu, next to a shield icon.
5. Choose Contacts and Discoverability. It’s at the bottom of the “Your Twitter activity” area, next to a magnifying glass with an avatar icon in the center.
6. Turn off the button next to Let others find you by your phone. A grey or white toggle indicates that the feature is off, and those who have you in their contacts list will not find your Twitter account when they sync their address book.

You can also disable your email here so that no one can find you using your email address.

Conclusion

What distinguishes Twitter from other social media platforms is that it lets users communicate their opinions and express their feelings in 280 characters or less; thus, things happen quickly and frequently. Twitter is primarily used for rants and random ideas. Tweets with strong opinions exist on Twitter. Having said that, because the platform isn’t really demanding and actually promotes short-form content and quick conversations, it is great for friends who want to talk to each other either privately via Twitter’s direct message feature or publicly by replying to their tweets, tweeting them, liking their tweets, or retweeting their tweets.

If you haven’t yet followed your friends on Twitter, you can easily sync your contacts if you don’t know their usernames or email addresses or if you don’t want to look for and follow them one by one. You can sync your address book to find someone on Twitter by phone number by navigating to “Discoverability and contacts” in your account.

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