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They just disabled posts from verified users.

Yes, but it took them nearly 2 hours to do that, in the middle of the work day no less.

Its that epic WFH productivity!

I doubt this is a productivity issue or an infrastructure issue - shutting off write access is a major business and reputational loss, and I can easily see cultural factors pushing people not to take that step.

Was this for verified users only? Or is that only verified users were targeted?

Indeed, already billions in trust lost so far, guessing by the ~4+% after-hours TWTR drop.

To be fair, it's still higher than yesterday's low. It's not like TWTR is known to increase over time anyways.

This is possibly a blessing in disguise. Obama and Biden's accounts have been hacked as well so this basically just burned Twitter as an international political platform.

Following that thought, it is entirely possible the whole point of the hack is to discredit Twitter and the bitcoin bit is just smoke.