I'm thinking specifically of direct messages that could have been scooped up before they went public and started tweeting on these accounts.
They most certainly don't. I have no idea why that fact is not obvious to some.
Trump had two liked tweets for all of time back from like, 2012. Around 2017 or so a group realized this and bought or otherwise messed with the site the liked tweets linked to and made them have pictures making jokes about trump. It took more than a year for anybody to give a shit enough to take down. They don't use the site for anything more than direct statements/retweets.
But Elon? Some of these bitcoin exchanges? Maybe. How about accounts that were accessed (if any) that never blasted out the bitcoin tweet, but had their messages harvested?
Also, I really hope there’s a set of users whose accounts cannot have new devices connected without special authorization, and if so, you’d have Biden, Obama and Trump on that list.
Edit: 5 minutes after posting, I saw Obama and Biden were on the list of people hit, and I missed it in the early reports. Unbelievable.
With a highly public hack like this one can simply manufacture messages afterwards and claim they came from the hack. Most people would believe it.
A potential whistleblower , somebody having dirt on opposition .
It could be worse , even if you didn’t respond the fact that someone let’s say a foreign government or a spy or terrorist reached out to you can played in media they way your opponents want it