‘Silence of the Blue Checks’: Netizens Taunt Verified Twitterati Amid Site’s Post-Hack Lockdown

Everyday Twitterati briefly rejoiced and roamed free on the social media platform while their “verified” counterparts were blocked from tweeting and Twitter attempted to undo the hackings of a cheeky crypto thief who exploited celebrity accounts and made off with netizens’ bitcoins.

Twitter Support announced on Wednesday evening that its team was investigating a particular “security incident impacting accounts on Twitter” and taking the appropriate steps to remedy the issue.

“Only doing this for the next 30 minutes! Enjoy,” read the scam issued from the personal account of former US President Barack Obama.

Even cryptocurrency exchange Gemini was amongst those hacked, resulting in the associated accounts of Coinbase, Binance and Coindesk being compromised and used during the scam.

While Twitter Support went to work to prevent a major cryptocurrency scam from tarnishing the platform’s name, unverified, regular Twitter users used the unprecedented opportunity to secure a bit of their own social media fame in the short time that verified accounts could not tweet.

As of the publication of this article, the celebrity-silencing scammer had managed to rack up more than $113,000 in bitcoins from eager netizens.

Sourse: sputniknews.com