Twitter in data-protection probe after '400 million' user details up for sale

Politicians and celebrities are said to be affected but the scale of the data breach is unverified.

BBC News
People dunked on him so hard for overusing the crying-laughing emoji that he's swapped it out for "haha" and "hehehe"
They're literally in the middle of shuttering the substack-clone newsletter service they acquired and integrated pre-Musk
jason still thinks that let that sink in is a cool catchphrase…..
musk in science understander buzzword mode spreading conspiracy theories over the holidays

twitter fucking loves science! bazinga!

lmao he doesn’t know what science is

much like fsd he has no self-awareness so he can't see the irony there, of course

having a normal one

the divorced losers are congregating

we're going to get some sort of divorce singularity, causing never before seen cope levels

watching this clownshow at twitter and thinking, these people want my credit card information. so they can make monthly charges. lmao

man who painted himself into a corner: "wow how did all this paint get here?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZlOhSt_qW0

it's my first day

YouTube
Wasn't this what the FTC consent decree was about?
speaking of things that are legal and cool,

by february the twitter office will be a bunch of cheap desks from staples under a tent on the parking lot of the tesla factory, right next to the car building tent

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-31/twitter-sued-for-nonpayment-of-rent-on-san-francisco-office

Twitter Sued for Nonpayment of Rent on San Francisco Office

Twitter Inc. was sued for failing to pay $136,250 in rent for its office space in San Francisco.

Bloomberg

tragic, can't even win cat turd 2 over

Disliked and without social cachet anywhere, wandering fucking twitter cliques looking for a home. Steadily getting iced out from anyone except the cachet of bazingas he can't stand.

He's going to have a neurotic breakdown. Gonna snap like a Phoenix Wright witness

hell yeah bucket of free pets, thanks twitter advertisers
I'd guess every feature they've rolled out since he took over is something they've previously tried and discarded

[taking a giant huff of paint]

"yeah all three novels were about a woke mind virus"

"pronouns suck"

"if you redact them, sure, release them unredacted"

narrator: the u.s. government did not ask them to remove the accounts

imagine the us government and various agencies of it taking an interest in a communication platform that can be trivially exploited by practically anyone. Imagine that!

the whole thing can be summed up as "twitter gets asked to do stuff and sometimes says yes and sometimes says no, but had a process in place", but seeing as elon fired everyone involved in that process I guess it's all just fine now!

lol, lmao. I'm sure that'll rake in the dough
I was time person of the year in 2006, they let anyone be a person of the year
Going well I see
Musk made it so the algorithm rids of bad posting. But his tweets don’t appear. Interesting.
Hackers leak email addresses tied to 235 million Twitter accounts

Researchers say the information was assembled by unknown actors who exploited a previously disclosed flaw in Twitter's system for verifying account ownership.

The Washington Post
imagine getting roasted by catturd2
Becoming increasingly convinced that he's planning to rip the copper wire out of the walls and then declare bankruptcy
Twitter hacked, 200 million user email addresses leaked, researcher says

Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said Wednesday.

Reuters
Why not done?
The woke mind virus already won
Social Media Platforms Are Failing Brazil's Voters

The stakes could not be higher in Brazil’s election. Yet tech platforms are predictably failing to meet the moment. More than 120 million Brazilians voted in the first round of elections on October 2. A second round on October 30 will determine Brazil’s next president.

Human Rights Watch
Musk Has Reduced Twitter’s Ability to Spot Foreign Disinformation, a Former Data Scientist Says

Staff layoffs are just one way the new CEO has undermined the platform’s three-legged approach to the problem.

Defense One
Come to the ‘war cry party’: How social media helped drive mayhem in Brazil

Just like with Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, supporters of Jair Bolsanaro used social media, particularly Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, to fuel the anger that exploded on Sunday in Brasília.

The Washington Post

Lmao, and he demands they only say nice things about Elon for life

Elon bro you’re subject to Warn and the CA equivalent bro what are you doing you’re just gonna send these folks to the plaintiff attorneys

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1612517929593229312.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-employee-severance-agreements-2023-1

Thread by @LisaBloom on Thread Reader App

@LisaBloom: Twitter workers, many of whom I represent, were FINALLY given their "severance agreements" on Saturday. They are really settlement agreements which SILENCE WORKERS FOR LIFE and and require them to give u...…

you hate to see families feud

Don't even need to do any digging to know that every person here is a lying moron

Note that Gregory Eady, the guy who published this paper (and apparently another that's almost exactly the same two years ago?) has his personal twitter covered in "SILENCED!!!!" and "SHADOWBANNED" garbage and quietly boosting Elon Musk supporters. The paper's co-author is Joshua Tucker, a quasi-Russian apologist (or at least neutralist) mouthpiece

deadbeat billionaire

lmao he's really gonna do it? blue only votes so he can win all of his own dumb polls, in a bald-faced sop to his own ego. all because a bunch of people told him to get fucked and he can't handle it?

my god, the corn cobbing here is astronomical

Discover a new world of cringe by digging into Elon's "likes"

ELON: I… try? Not to uhhhh pick? Fights? But I do erm finish. Them *manages to unsheathe sword on the third try*

@cspam What a weirdo.