<story><title>Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make</title><url>https://jacquesmattheij.com/twitter-blocked-my-account-for-a-tweet-i-did-not-make/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m confused - was OP&amp;#x27;s account compromised, or not?&lt;p&gt;I do not know. The tweet certainly looks like it was made by my account, but definitely not from this computer and &lt;i&gt;definitely&lt;/i&gt; not using my password. I&amp;#x27;m pretty precise about stuff like that and Twitter would be the least of my problems if my passwords were hacked. For now I am assuming either someone social engineered Twitter to change my password or a compromise of Twitter of some sort.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; but he doesn&amp;#x27;t seem very fussed about how it happened or keeping it from happening again&lt;p&gt;Lack of information... of course I&amp;#x27;m &amp;#x27;fussed&amp;#x27; but I just don&amp;#x27;t know. All I know is that as far as I can see my setup here is still secure and was not a factor in this.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; just annoyed that Twitter&amp;#x27;s response to it isn&amp;#x27;t faster.&lt;p&gt;No, mostly annoyed that Twitter would not detect a fairly obvious Joe-Job.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Is it this commonplace for twitter accounts to be taken over?&lt;p&gt;Good question, I don&amp;#x27;t know.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Also, is saying things like &amp;quot;Go die&amp;quot; an insta-ban on twitter?&lt;p&gt;Apparently, but even then: I didn&amp;#x27;t say that...</text></item><item><author>ineptech</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused - was OP&amp;#x27;s account compromised, or not?  It sounds like it was, but he doesn&amp;#x27;t seem very fussed about how it happened or keeping it from happening again, just annoyed that Twitter&amp;#x27;s response to it isn&amp;#x27;t faster.  Is it this commonplace for twitter accounts to be taken over?&lt;p&gt;Also, is saying things like &amp;quot;Go die&amp;quot; an insta-ban on twitter?  I don&amp;#x27;t use it but I thought it took more than that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dec0dedab0de</author><text>&lt;i&gt;For now I am assuming either someone social engineered Twitter to change my password or a compromise of Twitter of some sort.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Try to log in with a clear cache or in a private window. If you get redirected back to the page saying to delete the tweet, then you know your password wasn&amp;#x27;t changed.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter blocked my account for a tweet I did not make</title><url>https://jacquesmattheij.com/twitter-blocked-my-account-for-a-tweet-i-did-not-make/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>&amp;gt; I&amp;#x27;m confused - was OP&amp;#x27;s account compromised, or not?&lt;p&gt;I do not know. The tweet certainly looks like it was made by my account, but definitely not from this computer and &lt;i&gt;definitely&lt;/i&gt; not using my password. I&amp;#x27;m pretty precise about stuff like that and Twitter would be the least of my problems if my passwords were hacked. For now I am assuming either someone social engineered Twitter to change my password or a compromise of Twitter of some sort.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; but he doesn&amp;#x27;t seem very fussed about how it happened or keeping it from happening again&lt;p&gt;Lack of information... of course I&amp;#x27;m &amp;#x27;fussed&amp;#x27; but I just don&amp;#x27;t know. All I know is that as far as I can see my setup here is still secure and was not a factor in this.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; just annoyed that Twitter&amp;#x27;s response to it isn&amp;#x27;t faster.&lt;p&gt;No, mostly annoyed that Twitter would not detect a fairly obvious Joe-Job.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Is it this commonplace for twitter accounts to be taken over?&lt;p&gt;Good question, I don&amp;#x27;t know.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Also, is saying things like &amp;quot;Go die&amp;quot; an insta-ban on twitter?&lt;p&gt;Apparently, but even then: I didn&amp;#x27;t say that...</text></item><item><author>ineptech</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m confused - was OP&amp;#x27;s account compromised, or not?  It sounds like it was, but he doesn&amp;#x27;t seem very fussed about how it happened or keeping it from happening again, just annoyed that Twitter&amp;#x27;s response to it isn&amp;#x27;t faster.  Is it this commonplace for twitter accounts to be taken over?&lt;p&gt;Also, is saying things like &amp;quot;Go die&amp;quot; an insta-ban on twitter?  I don&amp;#x27;t use it but I thought it took more than that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vorpalhex</author><text>Could this be a 3rd party twitter client that has been infiltrated? Maybe someone reused a session somewhere?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m assuming you are using unique passwords per application.</text></comment>