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One often sees claims being made that Twitter has destroyed journalism. This kind of assertion seems a bit over the top given that journalists are perfectly capable of destroying the profession on their own. But it is worth examining the reasons why this kind of hyperbole is being flung around.

Social media company Twitter says it believes miscreants, who were behind a recent scam that attacked several well-known accounts, had targeted its employees through a social engineering scheme and manipulated them into carrying out certain actions and leaking confidential information.

An Internet outage in the US on Friday, which was blamed on Iran by a Twitter account known as AS-Source News that has now been deleted, was due to a configuration error on Friday made by Cloudflare staff, the company's chief executive Matthew Prince has acknowledged.