As a social media user myself, anything which undermines confidence in social media platforms can only be a positive.

I'm often struck with how poorly though through most decisions tend to be. Even detail oriented tech people can be rash and short sighted. Perhaps he was a lone hacker whose surprise success was like money burning a hole in his pocket. Perhaps something spooked him and he was fearful of his breach being discovered.

2 weeks after TikTok is publicly shamed for data harvesting, Twitter gets split wide open. If TikTok wanted to improve their reputation without changing their bad practices, they could start by delegitimizing their competition.

[Me dons tinfoil hat.]

It's a false flag operation. Trump realized that his tweets have become a political liability, so he had this done so that he can claim that someone hacked his account and posted all this weird stuff on it.

[Me takes off tinfoil hat.]

More seriously, what would the point be? Stock price manipulation? Making users think about moving to another platform? Political? International espionage?

[Edit: Since everyone seems to have missed it, the part inside the "tinfoil hat" blocks was not intended to be taken seriously. I expected it to be interpreted as a /s, but apparently it was not.]

That hat appears to have lingering effects.

Its cheap tin foil it got in their hair

> he had this done so that he can claim that someone hacked his account

This is false for a number of reasons. After Trump’s Twitter was deleted briefly by a rogue contractor, they placed safeguards on his account to ensure that it never happened again.(1) As such, he was not affected by the hack.

(1): https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/technology/trump-twitter-...