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More Jack: "We want to make sure any new line of revenue is complementary to our advertising business… We do think there is a world where subscription is complementary, where commerce is complementary, where helping people manage paywalls … we think is complementary." — PolitiTweet.org

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The last thing I heard was Jack talking about diversifying Twitter’s sources of revenue — teasing possible “tests this year.” Jack has “really high bar for when we would ask consumers to pay for aspects of Twitter” but the company is in “very, very early phases of exploring." — PolitiTweet.org

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Aaaand the audio just cut short completely? — PolitiTweet.org

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@chanman I can’t tell if it’s “minutes,” but certainly seconds, at least. — PolitiTweet.org

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The audio on the call keeps cutting in and out so others may have caught more of this, but that’s what I got from Jack’s opening remarks. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@jack apologizes for the Twitter hack on the company earnings call. “Last week was a really tough week… We feel terrible about the security incident… I apologize… we will continue to go above and beyond here …as we continue to work with external firms and law enforcement." — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter says dozens of accounts that were hacked last week had their DM inboxes accessed. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thunderbolts and lighting, very very frightening — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kylieatwood: TikTok now has about 1,400 employees in the US. Today the company announced they'll create 10K jobs in the US over the nex… — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidshepardson Room rater > seat pitch — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter hackers stole data from as many as eight users in this week’s attack, and may have tried to sell some of the usernames they controlled, the company says in a new blog post: https://t.co/Fk2FZheghr — PolitiTweet.org

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NEW: Former Twitter employees have been doing their own unofficial investigation into this week’s hack, trying to piece together the events. Here’s what likely happened with Twitter’s internal tools, according to interviews with ex-employees: https://t.co/iR4zdZIPqg — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donie: Images circulating online purporting to show a screenshot of an internal Twitter control system connected to Wednesday’s hack ar… — PolitiTweet.org

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Senate Commerce has asked Twitter for a briefing on the hack “as soon as possible." “It cannot be overstated how troubling this incident is,” @SenatorWicker wrote to @jack. https://t.co/eg3K9xd9ez — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @issielapowsky: In a FB Live with Fauci going on right now, Zuckerberg is (a little bit) sticking it to the administration. https://t.co… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @OKnox: Tonight's radio machine (SiriusXM Channel 124, 6-7 pm eastern) @RepChrisSmith on China's human rights record and its sanctions/r… — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter says they don’t think passwords were stolen, but they’ve proactively locked any accounts that have tried to change their passwords within the last 30 days. — PolitiTweet.org

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He adds that Twitter has “many layers of controls” to prevent unauthorized access to internal tools, including “logging, data science analysis, minimum privilege, all these things you would expect in these systems." — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter’s former CISO @_mwc tells @richardquest that "social engineering" could mean a whole range of techniques intended to compromise Twitter employees with access to internal company tools, whether it’s “phishing emails, some sort of bribery, or other." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donie: Former Twitter head of security @_mwc on @cnni at 3pm ET. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cnnadam: With the level of access they enjoyed, the hackers could have triggered a sell-off in the financial markets, issued fake polic… — PolitiTweet.org

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Security experts worry that what seemed like a lame financial scam at first may be the tip of a much larger iceberg. As @kennwhite put it to me: "If you've stolen a Ferrari, why just drive around the block?” https://t.co/zYy0cRAjl5 — PolitiTweet.org

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This and more in our new story about what’s at stake for Twitter — and our democracy — as everyone scrambles to figure out what went wrong: https://t.co/zYy0cRAjl5 — PolitiTweet.org

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Here are the relevant documents related to the earlier case. The alleged facts seem to bear at least some resemblance to what appears to have gone down this week. https://t.co/eC1gPVUUsP — PolitiTweet.org

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Since the FTC can issue fines for violations of consent orders, a finding that Twitter violated its settlement could expose Twitter to financial penalties. — PolitiTweet.org

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I spoke last night to two former directors of the FTC’s consumer protection bureau, David Vladeck and Jessica Rich. They said it’s virtually certain the FTC will investigate the Twitter hack, either as a potential violation of its 2010/11 consent order, as a new case, or both. — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s some weird symmetry, or poetry, or something, in the EU’s highest court saying US surveillance laws can’t be trusted at the exact same time that the US is going around saying China’s surveillance laws can’t be trusted. — PolitiTweet.org

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What happened to Huawei may be about to befall TikTok. https://t.co/njDPKdeCEB — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter with a preliminary explanation of what happened today. Says the attackers used this unauthorized access to take control of accounts. They’re stilll investigating what other data may have been compromised. — PolitiTweet.org

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So as of now, the list of compromised Twitter accounts includes Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Uber, Apple, Kanye, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Mike Bloomberg, among others. — PolitiTweet.org