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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwitter attack is ongoing
Users who are unverified (no blue check mark) can tweet but those with checks cannot.
So Dump cannot tweet right now! He can only retweet. He must be having a stroke.
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Twitter attack is ongoing (Original Post)
fleur-de-lisa
Jul 2020
OP
Mme. Defarge
(8,033 posts)1. ?????
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)3. It relates to this security issue..
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213756843
Basically, they used well-known people's accounts to tweet an offer for $2000 in bitcoin - as a personal gift from that famous person! - to help with covid-driven money troubles, but the 'taker' had to send him or her $1000 in bitcoin first.
Basically, they used well-known people's accounts to tweet an offer for $2000 in bitcoin - as a personal gift from that famous person! - to help with covid-driven money troubles, but the 'taker' had to send him or her $1000 in bitcoin first.
Mme. Defarge
(8,033 posts)4. Merci!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)6. Somebody put that out scam in Trump's name?
Nobody on the planet, and I'm including asylum residents and newborns, would think that Donald Trump would give away a thousand dollars. Amateurish.
Dem2theMax
(9,651 posts)2. So someone, somewhere, is actually doing us a favor.
Sunsky
(1,737 posts)5. Twitter did that
Twitter has shut down the ability of some users to tweet.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/15/21326372/twitter-hack-bitcoin-scam-new-tweets-shut-off-verified-accounts