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Twitter spokesperson Ian Plunkett:

“We’ve seen no evidence to corroborate this claim, including from the article published in the Netherlands today. We proactively implemented account security measures for a designated group of high-profile, election-related Twitter accounts in the United States, including federal branches of government.”

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/22/dutch-hacker-trump-twitter...

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This doesn't make sense to me. Twitter has the IP addresses of all logins, so they absolutely know whether this happened or not. "we've seen no evidence..." is a senseless thing to say and implies they are being evasive about something.

You're the one not making sense. "We've seen no evidence..." clearly implies they haven't logged any successful login after multiple attempts from a foreign IP or the Netherlands specifically as described, plus their other measures weren't triggered either.

Proactively? Was that after the other massive hack or after this one?

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