I wonder why they didn't target Donald Trump's account. My guess is that there's some accounts hidden behind a different structure that is only accesible to a handful of people.
Or maybe they just didn't want to shake the hornet's nest.
Or maybe they just didn't want to shake the hornet's nest.
After that incident I doubt the regular employee admin panel has access to it. Probably a few accounts require special admin privileges (world leader accounts I assume).
Which would be a much more reasonable explanation than the conspiracies being floated and could also imply that Twitter has thought about the "national security" scenarios in the article.
You shouldn't be able to get away with something like that.
An account on a private service was deleted. Not a brilliant move. But not something that merits more than being fired and possibly pursued for money damages.
[1] https://www.countable.us/articles/804-trump-tweets-transgend...
Pretty sure Twitter communicated after that that they took precautions that this won't be able to happen again.
I guess the question is why other high profile accounts like Obama's weren't secured the same way.