> and they would have been disabled the whole account, put notifications about hijack for everyone to see (like these COVID notifications) or maybe even take the whole platform offline until they fix it.

This hack had been going on for over two hours, with new high-stakes accounts being steadily taken over (and possibly have their DMs siphoned) and their only action was to disable posting for verified accounts. I think we can safely say that IF Twitter had the possibility to effectively pull the plug, we would've seen that on Wednesday.