has anyone else ever seen twitch say you can't talk in a chatroom without having a verified phone number? we were going to watch a thing earlier today but that just put us off from it and i'm a little disappointed about that
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@Felthry it's a per-channel setting, either in general or for young accounts / young followers / first-time chatters, with exceptions for subbers/VIPs/mods

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@noiob we don't want to give our phone number to twitch on principle, even if they already have it
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@Felthry can't help you with that, the channel owner probably set it up to thwart spam

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