Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Twitter seems to either not be able to discover that, or can't find it They clearly CAN, but don't want to. Their (X's lawyers) objections in the transcript are ridiculous (they claimed they don't have an "affiliated account" category - like really?!?) and when pressed for timeframes suddenly they can produce "impossible" data in less than 24h.
Was Twitter really as sophisticated as Facebook in this regard? If @realdonaldtrump and @johnbarron are both tweeting from the same IP in the same time frame, could Twitter make the connection that both are the same user? Was there enough backtracking stored in their systems to know that?
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#26My favorite part is when the government suggests to Twitter that they should Ctl-F to find 'associated accounts'
What's funny is while the judge might look silly suggesting such a basic technique, Twitter's lawyers were clearly "playing dumb" saying that a search for "realDonaldTrump" produced "millions of emails" and therefore was unreasonable.
Edit, more accurately: do not anthropomorphize lawyers.
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#27Trump didn't have the legendary opsec he's supposed to have.
Even worse, he used that password across several more services and didn't change them when his Twitter account was compromised. Legendarily bad, perhaps.
1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/12/17/dutch-trump-...
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#28At this point, Elon's purchase and seemingly-intentional brand-suicide looks more and more like a political favor. I mean, yes, if we shave this with Hanlon's Razor, the outcome is the same, but the rightward swing of Elon's public statements certainly makes this look more like quid-pro-quo than an oopsie.
I'm about 1/10th of the way through the transcript and I haven't come to this conclusion yet.
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#29Is this regarding the Trump case? They mention "realDonaldTrump" in the transcript.