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Or, in other words, "we want to make reassuring promises to make the bad PR stop, but in a way that carries minimal legal weight".

That is not as reassuring as people seem to think it is.

do people not use multiple phone numbers in USA?

Not really, no. Dual SIMs are kind of a niche feature here, and most users I've heard of do it with a US SIM plus one for some other country they travel to frequently.

Curiosity: what are the use cases for two SIMs from the same country?

One big thing Signal is bad at for me is using from a computer.

They have a desktop client, but it's just a weird thing that proxies through my phone in a sort of bizarre backwards self-hosting sort of way.

If (you're into microoptimizing things and) all you care about is whether they're mobile, you can leave out `Type=caller-name` to save a whole one cent per lookup :)

And if you're doing this before you try to SMS them, you can skip the lookup entirely, if it's a landline you'll just get an error back.

(I work at a company that uses Twilio heavily and it's full of this sort of microoptimization)