Extra.zip — Twitter Collection 2022
The data was likely harvested in using a vulnerability in Twitter's API that allowed users to input an email/phone number and retrieve the associated Twitter ID. Twitter confirmed the vulnerability was patched in January 2022, but the scraped data has circulated in various "Collections" ever since.
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This collection is widely considered a rather than a "content" library. The data was likely harvested in using a
: This is the most sensitive part; the leak allegedly linked public handles to private email addresses. Twitter Collection 2022 Extra.zip
: Creation dates and internal Twitter IDs.