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by cm3 3722 days ago
How does that twitter profile switching work technically. Is there actual shadow account support available to Pro Twitter accounts?
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"Here you go, the password is bfGeAgwRHU5bwMNd."

Some technical problems don't need technical solutions.

So there is some kind of 2fa that prevents whover has the account that week from changing the password and email?
They don't just give the account to random people. It's always people with already some kind of social media presence, and stealing an account as well known as @Sweden is not something someone like that would just do.
tweetdeck (now owned by twitter) officially supports team access to twitter accounts. So you can add someone to the team account and let them tweet using the handle, and revoke the access a week later easily.

However, because tweetdeck isn't available on mobile devices, most of these rotated accounts end up using password sharing.