Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, July 16th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today I run down the whole mess of the great Twitter hijacking from last night.

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If you live on Twitter at all, then you might have noticed a great disturbance in the

Twitter forest last night, possibly the greatest disturbance we've ever seen one by one prominent accounts for

Bitcoin Barack Obama Joe Biden ripple binance eelon musk bill gates Jeff Bezos

baysos whiz calififah the app, the list goes on and on, all of these accounts

suddenly started shilling for what seemed to be a cryptocurrency scam.

For example, here was the tweet from Joe Biden's account, quote,

I am giving back to the community. All Bitcoin sent to the address below will be sent back doubled.

If you send $1,000, I will send back 2,000, only doing this for 30 minutes."

End quote.

I don't know how much that would have been effective from the Joe Biden account, but maybe if you were getting that from Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk, you might take it seriously.

For a while everything was chaos.

Some of the prominent accounts seemed to gain control of their accounts back only to see them hijacked again.

Coating Tech Crunch.

It became clear early on that this situation was not the case of a single account being

compromised as we've seen in the past, but something else altogether. Even Apple, a company known for

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