Twitter Quotes a Private Tweet

How badly is Twitter's codebase failing? Well, when @histoftech tweeted a story about how bad Twitter's codebase was failing (technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/106...) from a locked account, the codebase failed and allowed @mmitchell_ai to retweet their post to the world. Shared with permission Received new replies Mitchell @mmitchell_ai · 1h RT: Mar Hicks @histoftech · 6h Move fast and break things 😬 This is a must-read if you are a regular user of the bird site: Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks | MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/106... Mar Hicks @histoftech · 1h Replying to @mmitchell_ai Wow, this is so me—my account is private so you shouldn’t have been able to quote tweet, but because the platform is glitching you were able to QT my private tweet about how the platform is breaking. This is amazing... both utterance and object lesson at the same time 😭

A screenshot of a Twitter post explains that Twitter’s failing codebase allowed a private tweet criticizing the platform to be retweeted publicly. The quoted tweet humorously becomes proof of the very software failure it describes, making it an object lesson in real time. EN: A screenshot of a Twitter post explains that Twitter’s failing codebase allowed a private tweet criticizing the platform to be retweeted publicly. The quoted tweet humorously becomes proof of the very software failure it describes, making it an object lesson in real time.

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