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Do we actually trust twitter with any data? I don't use twitter much but I can't think of anything on twitter that isn't already public. The only thing we trus
by creato 6y ago
Do we actually trust twitter with any data? I don't use twitter much but I can't think of anything on twitter that isn't already public.
The only thing we trust twitter to do is to provide some notion of authentication for well known users. That's still very important and not something Twitter can afford to lose, but it's not trusting them "with our data", I feel that is a very heavily overused phrase these days.
If these hackers had been more subtle and somehow made the confusion last a long time, it could have been a lot more serious. If people can't rely on Trump being Trump and Musk being Musk on Twitter, then Twitter is just an overgrown internet forum.
- Mirioron 6y agoTwitter does or at least did aggressively ask users for their phone numbers. They also retain information such as email addresses too. Presumably some people give them even more information about themselves.
- blisseyGo 6y agoI think private messaging is where most of the goods are. Also user's phone numbers and emails.
- waheoo 6y agoThey track almost every site you visit with a little tweet this button. Thats our data.
- ForHackernews 6y agoTwitter is just an overgrown internet forum