Too diverse and high-profile to be a physical attack by small fry. "...from the ...

Scoundreller · on July 16, 2020

Apple was interesting because they have 3.8m followers and zero tweets. Maybe they've never tweeted. But today they did.

SahAssar · on July 16, 2020

Someone in this thread said their tweets don't show up in their timeline because they usually promote their tweets.

hombre_fatal · on July 16, 2020

My guess is that a Twitter insider sold access.

I bet the reason Trump didn't get hacked was because he is special-cased in the Twitter system to avoid insider vandalism which protected his account from this insider attack.

bmarquez · on July 16, 2020

I believe you are right, a rogue Twitter employee had previously[1] deleted Trump's account. So there must have been some special protection to prevent it from happening again.

[1]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/twitter-em...

solarkraft · on July 16, 2020

I find it interesting that this kind of protection isn't the default.

emiliobumachar · on July 16, 2020

It probably involves one or two humans reviewing anything suspicious.

Breza · on July 18, 2020

Agreed, it could be as simple as someone at Twitter calling someone in the White House every time someone logs into the account. (The White House has a ton of staff, I met some of their IT people at a conference back in the day.)

VectorLock · on July 16, 2020

Get admin access from unlocked phones, make a bitcoin wallet, use admin access to send tweets with double-your-bitcoin tweet. Start thinking up accounts you think would work well for it and start going through them one by one.