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		withinrafael on July 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in si... Verified Twitter user here: Locks [1] are in place, attempting to tweet throws an error: Something went wrong, but don't fret -- let's give it another shot. At the bottom of the page, a notification appears: This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can't complete this action right now. Please try again later. [1] https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/128352640014683751... Direct Messaging is still functional as of 523PM PDT.

withinrafael on July 16, 2020 | [–]

Update: Can tweet again, locks have been removed [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/128356244619659673...

chadlavi on July 16, 2020 | [–]

I'm an unverified nobody and the same thing happened to me, was unable to tweet up until about 8pm EDT.

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