The accounts of the two users are back online after apologizing for crashing the site.

Both users will continue to look for other bugs on the social platform.

Below the comment of a Twitter spokesperson who confirmed that the flaw exploited by the German duo has been fixed and pointed to its rules, specifically:

To promote a stable and secure environment on Twitter, you may not do, or attempt to do, any of the following while accessing or using Twitter:

  • Access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of Twitter, Twitter’s computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of Twitter’s providers (except as expressly permitted by the Twitter Bug Bounty program).
  • Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network, or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measures (except as expressly permitted by the Twitter Bug Bounty program).
  • Interfere with or disrupt the access of any user, host or network, including, without limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing Twitter’s services, or by scripting the creation of content in such a manner as to interfere with or create an undue burden on Twitter
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Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs – Twitter bug, hacking)

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