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1 big thing

Users flee Twitter over security concerns

1 big thing

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In the last week, hashtags like #RIPTwitter and #TwitterDown were trending on the platform. The app continues to experience technical glitches under Elon Musk’s new regime, and it looks like more users are fleeing the site because of security concerns. Plus, Americans plan their holidays as respiratory viruses surge. And, a World Cup team protest. Guests: Axios' Sara Fischer and Adriel Bettelheim Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Sara Kehaulani Goo, Alexandra Botti, Lydia McMullen-Laird, Amy Pedulla and Alex Sugiura. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Good morning. Welcome to Exios today. It's Tuesday, November 22. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's what we're

0:40.0

covering today. Americans plan their holidays as respiratory viruses search. Plus, a World Cup

0:46.2

team protest. But first, fears are rising over Twitter security. That's today's one big thing.

0:54.1

Twitter Survival seems to be in real jeopardy. In the last week, hashtags like RIP Twitter and Twitter

1:05.1

down have been trending on the platform. The app continues to experience technical glitches

1:10.4

under Elon Musk's new regime. And it looks like more users are fleeing the site because of security

1:15.4

concerns. Actually, the Sarah Fisher has the reporting on this. Hey, Sarah. Hey, Nyla.

1:20.1

What kind of issues have we seen for users since the regime change at Twitter?

1:25.6

So most of it is small glitches, but they do have a big impact. So, for example, users who had found

1:31.5

their accounts to be hacked are saying that it's taking a longer time for Twitter to get back to

1:36.4

them with information about how to recover their accounts. Same thing goes with people who are

1:41.3

reporting things like misinformation or hate speech. The people who were responsible for

1:46.6

fielding those requests and those reports and responding to them, those teams have been gutted.

1:51.3

And then from a security perspective, last week, some users reported problems trying to

1:56.0

generate those two-factor authentication codes on their text messages that would help them

2:00.4

log back into their accounts if they logged out. There's also been some issues around copyright.

2:05.3

You know, Twitter has a takedown system where if you try to upload a movie or something that you

2:10.0

don't have the rights to, automatically that would get taken down. We're seeing reports of users

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