- elon saw someone posting about how all of the bots he hates steal API keys from official clients anyway;
- he understands just enough about computers to know that the secrets on twitter's official apps should be rotated, so he stormed into the moderation office to order that;
- this failed to get communicated to the product teams and it went through without their approval, under the idea that either the official apps don't use the API for anything loadbearing or that rotating the secrets should be an unnoticeably quick process;
- that idea is very very false;
- we're watching them learn this