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>Several high-profile Twitter users, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and the official Uber account appear to have been hacked, and all promoted that address, saying any funds sent to it will be doubled.

speculation time: How did those accounts get hacked? Did they all get spearphished? Did twitter get compromised?



Or was it a marketing platform that was owned? I worked for one a few years back and they used the same fb key for all of their 500 musicians they represented. One day facebook enforced key rotation and a bunch of fan sites went dark. Imagine if someone got access to our codebase, this same type of nefarious action would have happened

The curtain has been pulled back for some. Their favorite tweeters aren’t actually tweeting themselves

Edit: I also wonder if it’s an elaborate money laundering scheme. Mix coins with deniability. Combine with the Epstein drama, maybe there’s more to what meets the eye. Either way it’s popcorn time


I do not think this is true. Please tell me what marketing company would both manage Obama's very professional twitter, and at the same time commit fraudulent manipulation of Tesla's stock price.

If what you are saying was true, there would be some sort of evidence. Plus musicians/pop stars are very different from Official corporate twitter.


It's got to be a 3rd party authed w/ the Twitter account, I'd guess.




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