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Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by iKevinShah on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:11AM (#23855973)
I didnt even know I wanted to know this. My guess is between Jeff and Bill. They're the leading ones who can afford giving twice the money back ;)
Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by kerng on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:38AM (#23856133)
I'd assume one closer to crypto, probably Elon Musk or Coinbase.

Because the audience needs to know how to quickly send BTC.

In addition, it's a running joke on Elon Musk's feed anyway where people constantly to do this using fake accounts of his.

So, maybe some thought today Musk is having it and finally doing it for real! If there is a person to run such a campaign for real, it would be him - so it could even be plausible.

Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by iKevinShah on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:53AM (#23856202)
> "Because the audience needs to know how to quickly send BTC."

Yep, I agree with this.While mine guess was purely on "amount of money available to give", your speculation seems more on point.

Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by maps7 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:20AM (#23856638)
> a running joke on Elon Musk's feed anyway where people constantly to do this using fake accounts of his.

How does twitter allow this spam?

Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by fbreton on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:53AM (#23858033)
They don't, but the spammers have become more sophisticated over time. They use Cyrillic letters that look like Latin letters, they hack old unused accounts (sometimes verified ones), they post the spam as a second-level answer, they use images instead of tweeting text, they have started adding noise and various transforms to the images to make them harder to automatically classify as spam, and they probably have many more tricks up their sleeves. Fighting against spam is hard.
Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by kerng on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:28AM (#23856682)
That's a good question - there was a time, not too long ago where every single tweet of Musk was spammed with BTC giveaways.
Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by prvc on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:19AM (#23858217)
Shocking that they don't take even basic precautions like image hashing to cut down on this.
Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by Stupulous on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:03AM (#23856554)
That they target Elon Musk followers already suggests that it's a rich vein for scammers.
Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by ladberg on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:37AM (#23856121)
Elon Musk can afford it and is the only one known to tweet crazy stuff.
Re:Twitter internal panel linked to account hijackings by pi-rat on Thursday July 16, 2020 @02:38AM (#23856428)
I think you’re wrong, everyone knows that Bezos would never do a “I have decided to give back to my community” of any kind. :P