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It's much more likely a common social media marketing platform was compromised.
by Kye 6y ago
It's much more likely a common social media marketing platform was compromised.
- Scoundreller 6y agoBut then wouldn't these tweets say something other than "Twitter Web App" ?
- bowmessage 6y agoUsers of the middleware likely want to hide the fact that they're scheduling their tweets, I would imagine the tool sets this value explicitly to have the tweets appear more genuine. </postulating>
- lkbm 6y agoIt's a wide enough range of accounts that it's most likely an internal admin panel. Special protected accounts (e.g., Trump's) seem unaffected, whereas hundreds (thousands?) of "regular" accounts, high profile and small, are compromised.
- Kye 6y agoA lot happened in the 32 minutes since I posted that.
- PeterisP 6y agoIt seems a total account takeover, not just the ability to send tweets in their name - the email addresses have been reset, see https://twitter.com/sniko_/status/1283485972286656517 https://twitter.com/sniko_/status/1283485972286656517