Hash value? Twitter hosts their account, they literally have to ask Twitter to change the pic.

There’s several ways this could be tracked, but if they claimed somewhere they were hashing values and that triggered it, something very fishy is going on.

Like the only way that could happen is if they changed the file hosted at a certain exact URL (weird, especially for an auto workers union), and despite hosting the pics themselves, Twitter added a periodic check for this edge case. But also flagged that as more suspicious than updating it normally

And instead of keeping the cached version until the new one is reviewed, they changed it but flagged the account. Seeing as they basically pioneered sharding, I find this whole situation pretty coincidental

Usually I’d assume incompetence introduced during the imposter checkmark fiasco after they lost all their best engineers, but Musk has shown himself very willing to put his fingers on the scale…