First part of the process is making an email. Seems simple enough EXCEPT all major free email addresses require you to setup a secondary email to verify your primary email and if you don't, chances are you can't use this email to verify your account for account creations.
This is obviously done in hopes that you link an email that is linked to you in your verification step. This has nothing to do to ensure protection or get rid of automated accounts because it's easy for automation to do this secondary step.
So, you're forced to create two new emails from two different email providers and cross-link them.
Once that's done, you've got to setup your X account which is a nightmare in itself because their new "confirm you aren't a bot" thing is garbage with 10 questions you have to answer. It took me two tries to get it but since I took so long, it didn't properly load when I got it and I was forced to do it two more times to get it. That's answer 40 questions to prove you aren't a robot.
The irony is my X account got banned for being a bot even though I've never used a botting program ever and I don't even use AI to post.
Ive had a few accounts for different reasons, shitposting, lurking, retarded uni lecturers that wanted to use social media in the curriculum, but conveniently these were all so long ago they are old enough to be exempt from the retarded UK OSA checks and I never needed to prove my age. Also meant they were piss easy to set up back then and didn't need absurd cross email confirmations, phone numbers, or some other stupid stipulation that obviously does fuck all to stop problems arising since thr problems still go on.
I have an old Twitter or two. Hoping to recover one, but not sure how it even works now that it's X. Still, it's on my list. Hopefully it's plug and play, whenever I get around to it.