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One theory is it's a tweet scheduling platform, rather than Twitter itself that was hacked.
by MattBearman 6y ago
One theory is it's a tweet scheduling platform, rather than Twitter itself that was hacked.
- ceejayoz 6y agoNo. Clicking into a tweet shows you which app was used to post it. https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet#source-labels https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-tweet#sourc... These tweets are showing up as being posted from the Twitter web interface.
- throwaway43234 6y agoIts not hard to fathom that someone who was able to pull off a hack like this could have also found a way to mess with the metadata there.
- maest 6y agoIdle speculation isn't very helpful.
- throwaway43234 6y agoParent takes the posted-from metadata as absolute truth. I say it can't be relied upon when an active & involved hack is underway. You provide nothing of value. What do you think this entire thread is, but for idle speculation?
- mod 6y agoIt kinda is, if the premise is "they hacked a 3rd party app"
- kuschku 6y agoTweets posted through Twitter's ads platform, even non-ads scheduled tweets, will show up as normal twitter web posts. And approved partners can use the corresponding API to post this way.
- nannal 6y agoI've not checked twitter api docs but I've seen stuff like "Posted from: Zombo smart fridge" and was under the impression an app could fill that field in with whatever they like.
- ceejayoz 6y agoNo, it's the name of the app, which undergoes Twitter review.
- madeofpalk 6y agoNope, it's definitely not pre-reviewed https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/atlayx/how_to_tweet_from_twitter_for_samsung_smart/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/atlayx/how...
- ceejayoz 6y agoIt is now. Twitter has made all new apps by application only. A bunch of folks lost their “just for one” ones last year to this.
- shawnz 6y agoBut is it necessarily true that the authentication token was generated with the same app used to post the tweets?