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Re:"@" on Twitter by rayascott on Saturday April 28, 2018 @05:20AM (#16946806)
“Next time you make a seemingly obvious mistake, don't feel too bad. Even Twitter did it.”

There most infamous “mistake”, at least as I see it, was neglecting to backup their database data. That was just unforgivable.

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Re:"@" on Twitter by pmarreck on Saturday April 28, 2018 @09:22AM (#16947517)
I bet they had a backup, it was just never tested... pretty common mistake
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Re:"@" on Twitter by rayascott on Sunday April 29, 2018 @06:42AM (#16951476)
Nope, no backups were even created when Dorsey was in charge: “Oh, and while he was in charge, there was no backup of Twitter’s database.”

From the Fortune article “Let's remember why Jack Dorsey was fired as Twitter's CEO”

http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/jack-dorsey-twitter-ceo-fired/

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Re:"@" on Twitter by pmarreck on Sunday April 29, 2018 @10:34PM (#16955261)
what... the fuuuu
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Re:"@" on Twitter by muthuraj57 on Saturday April 28, 2018 @02:54PM (#16948964)
Their
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