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Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by jacquesm »

WorldMaker wrote: post #198
jacquesm wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No api accesses granted as far as I can remember. But good call, I had not yet thought of that one.

It may have also been "Web Intent" abuse? https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/t... Web Intent is a very open API and doesn't require a specific API relationship (you don't need to approve an "app" to do it). It is built to present a confirmation page specific to the given "Web Intent" interaction, but there have been reports over the years of adware/malware bypassing the confirmation page (or p…

Oh that is a very good one, I never ever even thought that something like that was possible, I thought that by just using a browser and a strong password that I was protected against that kind of trick.

Thank you. Between the various comments in this thread bit by bit I'm beginning to wonder how safe this setup really is. Qubes OS starts to look better by the minute...

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by nullc »

In the past there have been black market services that would give you the complete info and even access to twitter accounts for like $50 a pop or so.

Presumably via an insider or forged law enforcement requests.

You'll never get twitter to look into it or give you an ounce of data which you could use to pursue the matter yourself. ... I've never heard of that happening even when shamed in public.

Check out some of twitters court filings to see their corporate attitude, they even gaslight the courts-- they're not going to help you or care that they've screwed you over. They don't even care when people are complaining that they're hosting extortion generated child pornography... they simply respond that it doesn't violate their content policy.

Twitter's customer's are advertisers. You're a cow at a meat farm mooing that the ground isn't comfortable to walk on... no one cares how the product feels so long as production stays up.

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by jacquesm »

danso wrote: post #209
latchkey wrote: post #60

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https://twitter.com/settings/security_and_account_access

I too am interested in what you find in your third-party apps list. That’s really the only way I can imagine an account doing a rogue tweet without your password being compromised. Especially when the rogue tweet is something related to foreign politics

As soon as I have full access again I will look at that. Should be somewhere tomorrow if what they write in that email is accurate.

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by throwntoday »

jacquesm wrote: post #132
mort96 wrote: post #125

> Twitter believes that I should delete the Tweet (which I didn’t make in the first place) But... It's on your account. If Twitter's condition for re-instating the account is that you delete this tweet, and you have enough access to your account to be able to delete the tweet, why aren't you deleting the tweet? And: > Twitter is behaving wholly irresponsible here: there is absolutely no way that if my account was com…

> why aren't you deleting the tweet? Because deleting it would remove the one bit of evidence that this happened and may well wipe out the data that would allow establishing how this was done. > What if someone got hold of your password somehow? Theoretically possible, practically not very likely for all kinds of reasons which I won't go into here but which you are going to have to take my word for. Let's just say th…

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Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by jrootabega »

With some of the details that have come out, like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31240589

maybe it would be a good idea to check your environment for carbon monoxide, or ask someone you trust in real life if you've been displaying erratic behavior. People arguing on a forum about Twitter might be overlooking a health issue you might be experiencing.

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by throwntoday »

jacquesm wrote: post #157
bink wrote: post #154

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> Because deleting it would remove the one bit of evidence that this happened and may well wipe out the data that would allow establishing how this was done. You say you've been around awhile but you don't seem to understand that there is not such thing as permanent deletion when it comes to social media. "Deleting" the post in this case would only mark it as deleted and remove it from people's feeds. There is no des…

I would not make any assumptions about implementation details to which I have no access.

It is common practice in the industry to never delete data. There are also legal reasons for this.

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by jacquesm »

nullc wrote: post #222

In the past there have been black market services that would give you the complete info and even access to twitter accounts for like $50 a pop or so. Presumably via an insider or forged law enforcement requests. You'll never get twitter to look into it or give you an ounce of data which you could use to pursue the matter yourself. ... I've never heard of that happening even when shamed in public. Check out some of tw…

Ok. Good to know.

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by jacquesm »

nraynaud wrote: post #119
gojomo wrote: post #62

Remember, not long ago even @jack's account was taken over: https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-twitter-hacked/ If you'd ever supplied a phone number as a backup-auth, then a SIM/phone-number-hijack would be a likely cause. (I think you'd see an email about a password reset in that case.) But also any 3rd-party app that was ever granted posting access ª then itself compromised or misused – could also be to blame.…

As far as I know, the poster is in the Netherlands, which makes SIM swapping a bit harder.

But not impossible: https://www.politie.nl/informatie/wat-is-sim-swapping.html

Unfortunately the Dutch telcos are not immune to being social engineered.

Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by [deleted] »

doldols wrote: post #106
filoleg wrote: post #76

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Given that OP was making very pro-Ukraine statements and expressing their support for Ukraine on twitter up until that point, I believe it is extremely unlikely they just got drunk and tweeted "Die on the job..." to a pro-Ukrainian publisher called The Kyiv Independent. Even their HN reputation aside, it just doesn't make sense. I am one of the first people to always take OP statements with a gran of salt in cases li…

I’m Ukrainian, very pro-West Ukrainian at that. I absolutely despise Kyiv Independent for working to discredit real journalists by pushing completely absurd propaganda, like the “ghost of Kyiv” lie. These things are more complicated than they might seem at first glance.

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Re: Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

Test if your password has been chnaged by going to incognito mode, logging in again. If you cannot then someone has managed to take over your account.

if you can login then a) you were careless with your password or b) twitter has a serious problem (which it is depends on how paranoid we think you are with passwords)

but it would at least tell us something

Anyway I hope this gets resolved satisfactorily soon :-)

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