On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, we detected a security incident at Twitter and took immediate action. As we head into the weekend, we want to provide an overview of where we are.

We believe attackers targeted certain Twitter employees through a social engineering scheme. What does this mean? In this context, social engineering is the intentional manipulation of people into performing certain actions and divulging confidential information.

The attackers successfully manipulated a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter’s internal systems, including getting through our two-factor protections. As of now, we know that they accessed tools only available to our internal support teams to target 130 Twitter accounts. For 45 of those accounts, the attackers were able to initiate a password reset, login to the account, and send Tweets. We are continuing our forensic review of all of the accounts to confirm all actions that may have been taken. In addition, we believe they may have attempted to sell some of the usernames.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/an-update-on-our-security-incident.html

Yes, yes :-) Only issue is that attackers level and actions do not match with that they did having access to such accounts. First, posts had been stupid even for random dumb 16 year olds, second they posted such shit across many accounts at once. Actually not getting much from such complex scheme. even one properly arranged message on this accounts allowed to get tens of millions at the stock markets without much risks.

In reality we have some kind of theater performance made by Twitter itself, most probably it is required to impose some account checking option and further censorshipa nd collection of info about you.