The Guardian:
Thousands of Twitter accounts, including high profile ones belonging to users such as Forbes, Amnesty International, the BBC’s North American service, and tennis star Boris Becker were compromised on Wednesday morning, resulting in them tweeting propaganda related to Turkey’s escalating diplomatic conflict with Germany and the Netherlands.
All the compromised accounts were attacked through their use of a popular third-party analytics service, Twitter Counter.
There are captured images of a few of the tweets in the Guardian article.
This does beg the question: If your account was hacked, what do you do?
Here’s a link to Twitter’s official My account has been hacked page. Tuck this one away and hope you never need it.
To be more specific, the accounts were not hacked. Twitter Counter was hacked. The permissions to post on behalf of you are revoked.
Twitter outlived its usefulness years go. Despite the good things it can do, the noise it creates, and the hate it passively supports, make it nothing but a toilet of disinformation and loathsome behavior.
Shades of Serdar Argic…the bane of Thanksgiving…