{"id":210831,"date":"2023-01-26T09:02:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T08:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=268494"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:06:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:06:44","slug":"godmode-program-internal-twitter-allows-tweeting-from-any-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/godmode-program-internal-twitter-allows-tweeting-from-any-account\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;GodMode&quot;: Twitter&#039;s internal program that allows tweeting from any account"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Twitter<\/strong> continues to accumulate controversies. If already last year several voices commented on the great lack of protections in <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/security\/twitter-and-tiktok\/\" title=\"the social network to ensure the privacy of its users\">the social network to ensure the privacy of its users<\/a>, a new accusation claims that the company would not have put any kind of solution even with <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong> in charge.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-logo-xl,f_auto\/p\/9b1fcdde-96d8-11e6-8f6f-00163ec9f5fa\/2951943913\/twitter-Twitter%20logo.png\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Twitter<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--8.20\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"8.20\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"8.2\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\">8.2<\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In a hearing before the <strong>United States Congress<\/strong>, where members of the <strong>Federal Trade Commission<\/strong> were also present, a former employee of the social network declared that Twitter still has an internal tool, known as \u201c<strong>GodMode<\/strong>\u201d, which would allow tweeting from any account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A program that already brought headaches<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/01\/24\/whistleblower-twtter-ftc-settlement\/\" title=\"The Washington Post\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/strong> has echoed this accusation thanks to an employee of the US Congress, who shared with the media a complaint filed last October by <strong>Whistleblower<\/strong>, a non-profit law firm that is responsible for representing former employees from Twitter and other big companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GodMode was precisely the internal program that in 2020 starred in <strong>one of the most controversial moments in the history of the platform<\/strong>. On July 15 of that year, several highly relevant accounts with a large number of followers, including <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> and Elon Musk himself, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/07\/15\/musk-gates-twitter-hack\/\" title=\"spread a cryptocurrency scam against their will\">spread a cryptocurrency scam against their will<\/a> after a hack that allowed criminals use said tool for internal use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Elon-Musk-tuit-hackeado.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-268495\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After this incident, the managers of Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2020\/an-update-on-our-security-incident\" title=\"announced the repair of said failure in the system\">announced the repair of said failure in the system<\/a>, something that the current complainant questions: &#8220;After the 2020 hack in which several teens were able to tweet as any account, Twitter publicly stated that the issues had been fixed&#8221;affirms his complaint. &#8220;However, the existence of GodMode is yet another example that Twitter&#8217;s public statements to users and investors were <strong>false and\/or misleading<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The anonymous whistleblower, who also spoke with TWP, states that the social network&#8217;s engineers only changed the name of the program after the incident, <strong>renamed <\/strong>\u201c<strong>privileged mode<\/strong>\u201d. A tool that would serve, according to his words, so that Twitter could tweet on behalf of advertisers in the event that they could not on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous former employee of Twitter denounces that the company would have a program for internal use that allows tweeting from any account<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":210832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":2},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-210831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322421,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210831\/revisions\/322421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210831"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=210831"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=210831"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=210831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}