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Twitter Bots are Attacking to block OSINT users
- app4soft 5y agoMass attack is targeted to OSIN users covering Russia & Russian movements near Ukraine.[0] Addition: some OSINT users censored on Twitter in Germany, due to Nitter's dev reply to me.[1,2] As result tweets not visible on Nitter's instances hosted in Germany as well.[3] UPDATE: Multiple OSINT accounts that were locked received the notification from Twitter at the same time..[4] [0] https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1496409784790261764 https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/149640978479026176... [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/157#issuecomment-1047161567 https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/157#issuecomment-104... [2] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1496417682605985793 https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1496417682605985793 [3] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30439455 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30439455
- perihelions 5y agoLooks like they're back. Twitter told this person their lock was "an error", https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status/1496450689047875585 https://twitter.com/KyleJGlen/status/1496450689047875585 BBC's Moscow correspondent is in the replies -- maybe we'll see some reporting about this incident. Actually looks like quite a few journalists picked up on this story under the #osint tag...