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Trump is a "protected" account in twitters internal system. Even Twitter employees cant access such protected accounts.

• eunos 6y ago
  But Biden's account wasn't? Quite peculiar considering the upcoming election.
  • detaro 6y ago
    Trumps account got attacked by an employee in the past, presumably it got a special case added then, but they didn't get to an overall policy on heads of state and candidates.
    • eunos 6y ago
      Maybe after "verified" account, there will be a "guarded/critical" account.
• jacquesm 6y ago
  Not all of them can, but some of them can. For instance the people that could reset that 'protected' status. It certainly won't be the tooth fairy doing that, a Twitter employee is much more likely.
• danso 6y ago
  It's weird that Musk's didn't have elevated privileges. Trump's account getting hacked has obviously greater potential harm, but Musk's (non-hacked) tweets had demonstrably major financial and legal impact. And if you read the replies to his tweets, you can see they are constantly getting spammed by bitcoin-hawking accounts (even hacked verified accounts) impersonating Musk's display name and avatar. If Musk didn't get elevated privileges, then who else besides Trump would have them? Or are the protections for Trump just the same emergency bespoke fix that they implemented when his account was previously deleted?