Daniel Stenberg's (badger) Twitter account seems to have been compromised

While I am disconnected from twitter, you can always reach me at:<p>Mastodon: @bagder@mastodon.social<p>Keybase: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;bagder" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;keybase.io&#x2F;bagder</a><p>IRC: #curl on freenode<p>Email: daniel@haxx.se<p>website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daniel.haxx.se&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daniel.haxx.se&#x2F;</a>

He posted a blog post about it here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daniel.haxx.se&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;i-lost-my-twitter-account&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daniel.haxx.se&#x2F;blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;i-lost-my-twitter-acc...</a>

I&#x27;ve seen (and reported) a lot of such verified accounts that pose as Elon Musk. I don&#x27;t get one thing—why can&#x27;t Twitter set up a system that alerts to such changes to verified accounts? Can&#x27;t they do a match on the name&#x2F;profile image that could alert them of a possible hack? I&#x27;m stumped as to why they don&#x27;t have such a system in place already considering not everyone has a verified account.

can I just mention that my twitter handle is &#x27;bagder&#x27; - as in a dyslexic animal! =)

Account restored!