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Considering they don't even whitelist their own critical internal services I doubt it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25472455

However I wouldn't be surprised as part of the profile they build on each user that there isn't some kind of influence metric they can use to work who the high profile people are.

It could even be as simple as watching the inbox for when the "high profile verified social tick approved" emails arrive.



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