An unintended side effect of Twitter becoming paid is it makes existing accounts more valuable. It may be more convenient for bad actors to purchase hacked accounts rather than make their own. Verified accounts used to face a lot of phishing attacks, but less so now you can just buy verification.
If phishing of regular Twitter accounts does become more common, it's going to absolutely suck for users. Previously, it was near impossible to recover a hacked Twitter account when they actually had a support team. Now, there's absolutely no way they could handle an volume of support requests.
@malwaretech of course, if real people stop using the service because it turns out they don't want to pay for a shitty site, the value will be adjusted down accordingly
@malwaretech I generally hate it when people correct the way i say things. But i think it's important to do here.
"makes existing accounts more valuable." I think it'd be better to say...makes existing accounts even more of target than they were before. Since that's generally what your comments are saying anyway.
@malwaretech these are last months anyway. But yeah, best way to do this, is to telegraph move wide and open, get all your data out, request deletion of account and move on.
@malwaretech i'm holding onto my clean, non-shadowbanned, not anti-musk (literally never posted since he bought it, that was easy) flagged, 10 years old account until it's value hits at least 50$. I'm hodling, I'm diamond handing harder than the cryptobros the new money making machine line-always-goes-up dream is Twitter accounts.
@malwaretech it also destroys the basis of the platform. Sure, twitter sucked, but it was where anyone, anywhere, could tell the world it sucked and why.
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