Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by YaBa » Tue, May 03, 2022, 10:38 AM UTC

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…

We've all been there, drunk texting some ex :)

> What a weird blog post.

Thing is, Google, Twitter and many other platforms reinstate accounts after some public crying like this one.

> Now, I have been pretty vocal in my support for Ukraine

This pretty much answers it all, OP wrote the tweet, remember that there are no evidences of account being hacked? Account got blocked. OP makes a fuss about it hoping that visibility from other platforms will help him.

Just delete the tweet and get over it...

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

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Post by filoleg » Tue, May 03, 2022, 4:52 PM UTC

rosndo wrote: post #266

filoleg wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Is it not even more unlikely that Twitter itself was hacked, just so someone could post this tweet as OP? Oh, if that's the point of the argument, then I totally agree with you. I strongly doubt that Twitter itself was hacked. It makes way more sense that someone else simply got access to OP's account one way or another. Maybe a compromised device, maybe a compromised network, maybe even just a regular account take…

Twitter wasn’t hacked. OPs twitter account wasn’t hacked. OPs computer wasn’t hacked. OP wrote this tweet and forgot. When read in context, it’s perfectly in line with pro-Ukraine views previously expressed on his account. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31240589

Oh god, the more I read, the more I actually think your guess might be correct.

Even OP himself, once questioned, didn't really deny, and was just going around the fact by saying he doesn't know why he got banned, and that he wants to figure out whether he did it as well.

On top of being "totally certain" that no one got unauthorized access to their account, all while having no 2FA set up, I just give up my attempt to bother understanding some people. I have zero idea how it is possible to tweet something and then not being able to tell whether you actually tweeted it yourself when presented with a screenshot. But, from what I am seeing OP say in the thread, it seems like a very strong possibility.

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

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Post by givemeethekeys » Wed, May 04, 2022, 12:21 AM UTC

wfhordie wrote: post #61

givemeethekeys wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> reports on “tweets,” It's no different than reporting on anything else that someone says in a public forum. Since there are real consequences for what you say in a public forum, it is understandable that there is an appeals process.

> It's no different than reporting on anything else that someone says in a public forum. Public forums, like in-person public forums, have much more context and many more barriers to being heard. In a supply-and-demand, signal-v.-noise sense, I find Twitter to be extremely low value, on the order of whatever the homeless fellow on my street shouts about (it’s usually extremely racist, homophobic, and disconnected fro…

I wish getting banned from Twitter was the worst thing that could possibly happen to you for sharing an unpopular opinion.

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

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Post by throwntoday » Wed, May 04, 2022, 1:26 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #243

throwntoday wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> I hate to be that guy Proceeds to be that guy.

Yep, you're absolutely salty.

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

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Post by gojomo » Wed, May 04, 2022, 3:55 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #105

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.…

Interesting! But: I never gave Twitter my phone number exactly because I figured that that would open me up to SIM swap attacks and the password on the account is quite secure. As secure as this machine, I guess.

Then a 3rd-party app is the most-likely route-of-compromise, as it could explain a tweet without a password-compromise or password-change.

If you regain even read-only access to your account, check/trim those first.

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

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Post by gojomo » Wed, May 04, 2022, 4:03 PM UTC

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…

It is possible that the same temporary (read-only?) access that would allow you to delete the tweet would also allow you to capture much of the relevant evidence:

• fetching the offending tweet via a raw/API method could, in the JSON, reveal more metadata – such as involvement of some compromised 3rd-party app with posting rights to your account

• requesting your entire Twitter archive might similarly still be available (as they offer it largely due to the EU's legal requirement), and include the offending tweet with full metadata

Requesting the latter – your full archive – without supplying any more new info (your phone number) might be a tactic with leverage given the EU-compliance dimension. (Though, it's also possible the regulators have already approved phone-number-verification as a reasonable prerequisite for such a giant personal data dump.)