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Re:Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam by leeoniya on Sunday May 26, 2019 @11:17AM (#20015318)
> I’m thinking through how Twitter would combat something like this.

twitter's bot can pull the link via Tor with a randomized UA

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Re:Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam by rubyfan on Sunday May 26, 2019 @11:23AM (#20015351)
Can’t you just time the redirect so that when you create the card you point to CNN then change the redirect to something malicious afterward?
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Re:Twitter accounts are being hijacked for spam by Sephr on Sunday May 26, 2019 @12:31PM (#20015736)
The list of Tor exit nodes is public.

I can detect public Tor IP addresses and give them a different redirect with Zerodrop: https://eligrey.com/blog/zerodrop/

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