A number of top government officials reached out to Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) in the quest to get the provider to uncover the unknown National Parks employee who according to sources had retweeted a photo to the department’s official Twitter account that had given misleading information. It had showcased former President Barack Obama’s inauguration as having many attendants in relation to that of President Donald Trump.
This particular retweet-along with two other rogue retweets–were immediately deleted from the National Parks Service’s official Twitter account considering that this was indeed a malicious act, and its effects were being felt around the globe creating quite a bad impression on the United States’ new President.
However, request under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that the newly inaugurated president was “directly involved” with what was as a matter of fact spelled out as a “sensitive issue” in an email by the chief of digital strategy at the National Parks Service, Tim Cash.
The email was of course addressed to the agency’s chief information security officer, Shaun Cavanaugh and it goes without saying that a time had come when security in twitter needed to be beefed up in a major way!
Several news reporters have cornered a number of top officials working with Twitter in an effort to try and obtain some critical details in regards to the government’s involvement with the industry leader.
But, it was all in vain after top company officials declined to make any comments for reasons only known to them. But what stands out no matter what is that Twitter needs to help curb malicious activities on its platform. How to do so is the question.
From records, Twitter from the past heading forward has usually embraced quite a strong approach towards user security and privacy. It has gone the extra mile to actually push back on government requests to unmask its users that don’t have to necessarily display or register with their real names, unlike the rest of the social networks.
Twitter has been performing quite well over the years and one thing that stands out the most about it is just how highly it regards its users and protects them.
Twitter’s stock closed the last trading session at $18.48, after declining by $0.09 or 0.48%.