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The POTUS account likely has more additional security than normal accounts.

• zucker42 6y ago
  Like what?
  • drak0n1c 6y ago
    The account was vandalized in the past by a rogue employee, they probably added more controls since then.
  • smsm42 6y ago
    Maybe not everybody with internal tools can mess with it. Because somebody with internal tools already messed with it before and it didn't look very well for twitter. So if there's anybody with brains there they probably made some measures so it won't happen again.
• GhostVII 6y ago
  Not sure why you are being downvoted given that this is probably correct? Sounds like the attack was through an admin portal. Given that Trump was one of the few high profile accounts not targeted, it seems like the attackers were not able to access his account through that portal. And his Twitter has been attacked by employees before so Twitter probably locked it down so employees can't modify it.
  • Akronymus 6y ago
    Could you elaborate on twitter employees attacking his account? This is the first time I read about that.
    • coolspot 6y ago
      https://duckduckgo.com/?q=twitter+employee+trump+account&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=twitter+employee+trump+account&ia=... https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/former-twitter-employee-who-deleted-trumps-account-it-was-a-mistake.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/former-twitter-employee-who-...
      • Akronymus 6y ago
        Oh, I thought you meant defacing his account or something. It "just" being deleted didn't quite register as an attack for me.
  • dclowd9901 6y ago
    Or whoever did this didn’t want to draw a terrorism charge if they got caught and just wanted to keep it limited to wire fraud.