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Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by bmarquez on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:06PM (#23854545)
If the screenshot is real, I'm pretty sure that Scott Adams (the cartoonist) has that Search Blacklist button applied to him. I recently tried to search for users with his name, and he wouldn't appear at all (while unverified names with 0 followers would show up).

Had to go through DuckDuckGo to find his handle.

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Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by rvz on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:21PM (#23855046)
A user called '@viennacat921' joined in August 2019 with 0 tweets and is shown in the screenshot. '@b' is pernamently suspended and '@arceus' is protected and locked with all of this being reflected in the admin dashboard.

This leak seems to be legit.

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Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by _mog1 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:26PM (#23854698)
Probably not: https://shadowban.eu/scottadamssays
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Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by bmarquez on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:47PM (#23854840)
You're right, thanks for the link.

I was surprised because I searched for users with the name "Scott Adams" and it was promoting users with 0 followers and not showing his verified account at all. This was through Tweetbot iOS.

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Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by hsod on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @10:28PM (#23855091)
Was this just now? Verified accounts weren’t showing up in search during the hack
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Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by fireattack on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:40PM (#23854791)
Twitter shadow ban certain IDs in search suggestion isn't news, but @scottadamssays doesn't seem to be one of them.
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