for the massive hack that compromised some of the social media company’s most prominent users during a Thursday earnings call, the latest development in a hectic week that also saw the large-scale banning of accounts associated with the QAnon right-wing conspiracy theory.“Last week was a really tough week for all of us at Twitter, and we feel terrible about the security incident that negatively affected the people we serve and their trust in us,” Dorsey said, and apologized for the incident.
“We fell behind” in terms of security, Dorsey also said, adding that the breakdown occurred “both in our protections against social engineering of our employees and restrictions on our internal tools.”Wednesday that 130 accounts were targeted during the July 15 attack, with hackers accessing direct messages for 36 of those accounts.
As part of their actions against the conspiracy theory, Twitter will no longer recommend tweets that contain QAnon content and restrict QAnon-related URLs, as well as block it from appearing in the trending section. Twitter stock was up around 3% after the earnings call, during which the company reported large user growth during the second quarter while advertising revenue dropped, as ad spending is curbed by the pandemic and in solidarity with the anti-racism movement.. User growth climbed 34% to 186 million daily active users in the second quarter compared to the same period last year, TwitterWhether Twitter rolls out a subscription service.
I can't believe that user confidence in Twitter is destroyed by hackers and their stock rises. Rallying due to a possible subscription model and more users is mind boggling because a) subscription models for info like news have performed poorly and b) bots inflating user counts
It wasn't a bitcoin hack dumb dumb
maybe Twitter should suspend Twitter’s account
Feel bad for jack, Tweeties TwitterSupport. Have direct systems hijack experience in a tech co and think TwitterSupport and co did an amazing job on the super fast systems recovery.
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Jack Dorsey you got this, bad guys wants to discredit the good job your are doing in Twitter company. Pull yourself up and figure out if you have an infiltrator as an employee.
Im told Bitcoin isn’t bad but funny how many bad guys use it. Speaks volumes.
he should censor himself
I’m sure they do.
Bitcoin didn’t hack twitter bruh
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