I do not think that a 3rd party tweet scheduling program has been hacked, because the tweets say they have been sent by “Twitter Web App”. Maybe the new feature on twitter.com to schedule tweets has a security vulnerability?
I've not checked twitter api docs but I've seen stuff like "Posted from: Zombo smart fridge" and was under the impression an app could fill that field in with whatever they like.
Some folks are saying some of these accounts had 2FA, so can be the case but I guess if it was a system thing, we might have seen tweets from more prominent accounts.
I believe I read something (trying to find it) about Twitter internally having additional protections on Trump's account. Only a handful of people within Twitter can touch it.
They're clearly trying to avoid the risk of being tracked. For example, they could have done stock manipulation and made more money. Trump is someone with the power and craziness to spend a hundred million tracking you down and literally dropping bombs on your head. So it'd be poor risk management to go after his account.
> President Trump has bestowed additional authority on the Pentagon in his first months in office, which the military has argued will help it defeat the Islamic State more speedily. Mr. Trump did not say whether he had personally approved Thursday’s mission.
> “What I do is I authorize my military,” Mr. Trump said after a meeting with emergency workers at the White House. He called the bombing “another very, very successful mission.”
I think we can imagine being more anti-war than Trump.
Do you remember Jimmy Carter? Being anti-war means deescalation, diplomacy and solving problems without violence.
Someone has found a way to post a tweet from any account they like?