- 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
- He/Him
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in reply to @vogon's post:
If this is true then I'm astounded that he's just now learning how a tech company works. Didn't he own three of them already
I've owned a bunch of LCD monitors but I don't know how they work
his other tech companies have a company culture of managing how much he's actually able to affect directly because he's known for breaking stuff
this brings the twitter whistleblower paper to mind, where it was revealed that, despite existing for over 15 years, they still didn't have a separate environment for testing, instead just doing everything on production
maybe that's true, maybe it's not, but it sure does fit their track record of....just posting tweets on prod to test things
- they won't admit this happened publicly because of how bad it makes them, and him specifically, look.
my theory: they're working on a "more than x posts per day" feature, and someone accidentally pushed to prod with test values.