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Keith Olbermann
Related: About this forumOlbermann had a great explanation of what Jack Smith's grabbing of Trump's Twitter account meant ...
It's not the tweets, which are readily available, but the DMs and drafts. Olbermann says that if Dumpf gave his password to someone, they could have access to these, even the stuff not sent. All of which are available to Twitter, since nothing on social media can be hidden (or so he says).
If there's someone who knows a little about social media, correct me if I'm wrong.
Listen here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/smith-didnt-want-trumps-tweets-he-wanted-his-dms-and/id1633301179?i=1000623996922
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Olbermann had a great explanation of what Jack Smith's grabbing of Trump's Twitter account meant ... (Original Post)
ificandream
Aug 2023
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Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)1. Getting the DM's makes sense
The "using Twitter to hold drafts for someone else with the password" thing doesn't really work as well as it does with gmail or a gazillion other websites that could be used for that purpose.
The other interesting thing would be the IP access log, if there is one, showing the network address being used to access the account at various points in time.
For example, with respect to any particular message on Twitter, team Trump could claim that someone else wrote it or that he doesn't remember who wrote it (or by asking the witness how they know Trump wrote a particular Tweet instead of someone else), but nailing it down to a particular IP address would certainly narrow the circle of persons who would have had to have been there to do it.
ificandream
(10,381 posts)2. Good point about the IP address log.
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)3. If they have one
Can you imagine the data storage requirements to even keep that stuff around for several years?
TheRealNorth
(9,629 posts)4. But Would the IP log be useful.....
If they used a VPN?