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0 pointscryptica5y ago0 comments

My bet is that some Tweet posting API is missing a critical authentication check or the hackers found a way to bypass this check.

I doubt someone could individually hack all these accounts.

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andy_ppp5y ago

I mean why can they not stop the api? Why not just switch it off for a few minutes and figure out what is happening?

crypticaOP5y ago

They would need time to figure out which API endpoint is affected. Twitter is not going to shut down everything just because one endpoint has a possible issue.

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andy_ppp5y ago

I mean why can they not stop the api? Why not just switch it off for a few minutes and figure out what is happening?

crypticaOP5y ago

They would need time to figure out which API endpoint is affected. Twitter is not going to shut down everything just because one endpoint has a possible issue.

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