Account details of 400 million users appear to have been hacked, all while Twitter's security team is currently in shambles.
"data of US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was included in the sample of data published by the hacker. The data of broadcaster Piers Morgan, who recently had his Twitter account hacked, is also reported to be included.
Twitter has so far not responded to press inquiries about the claimed breach."
Not unexpected, but still very upsetting! 😕
I never really used my Twitter account all that much, aside from following people. But even I could feel it breaking down.
In 3 years of having the account, I never even once experienced any bots or scam.
Within the first week of the new guy being in charge, I started getting:
- Scam DMs
- Follows by "hot girl" bot accounts
Additionally, I see new glitches in the iOS app piling up.
The cracks started to show up so fast! 😮
@duke_of_germany You are not wrong, everything became worse after he bought it.
I was on Twitter for 11 years, at some point I was quite active, and I won't lie the toxicity started showing when they started pushing negative engagement for profit.
If you discuss any issue or name bigots don't like, all they have to do is search for a single word and they can find your posts AND your replies and attack you, that's why people use "M*sk" instead of "Musk".
But he elevated the bad to new levels.
Wow, you have been there for a long time! I did not witness the pre-toxicity era, so I never had the comparison. I just felt that being there stressed me out just a little.
Only when I discovered Mastodon, the whole thing of "micro blogging" finally clicked for me, and I enjoy it very much! I love the vibes, and how much control over my whole experience I have here.😺
@duke_of_germany To be fair when you use it casually or don't discuss certain things you can save yourself from most of the bad, but when you *want* to post something that could bring out the trolls it can turn ugly.
For example I wouldn't post my Andrew Tate opinions there, because the risk of having a bunch of misogynists find me is huge.
And I totally agree about Mastodon, it's definitely way more of my thing and I've been posting more regularly here than I have in years.
@fenrirsulfr I feel you, I just use it to screenshot stuff I want to confirm are 100% real and not photoshopped tweets, and post them here. Using relevant hashtags has worked well in finding audience so the temptation is less.
Besides, just typing "Andrew Tate" on twitter could bring a horde of his trolls in your mentions, the way things work there. So no thanks. 😆
@fringemagnet @EU_Commission (the EU) should take twitter offline asap for gross incompetence & negligence at securing the data of its users!
Musk is inapt & unwilling to protect the users of the medium he regrettably & incompetently controls!
#ShutDownTwitter #Privacy #DataSafety #GDPR #MusksDataBreaches
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