One may not be ideologically aligned with Musk but to pretend that his tweet on the company’s inner workings is somehow less reliable than someone on HN defies logic.
- Musk still has an axe to grind to justify his claim that Twitter was catastrophically mismanaged.
- He has a history of making very false statements about Twitter, including most recently that it’s the world’s biggest driver of ad traffic. That harms his credibility.
- He has been CEO for what, two weeks? And he’s suddenly discovered all this bloat stuff that others missed? Again that seems unlikely.
- This is a claim that on the face of it doesn’t pass muster, given what’s known about Twitter’s engineering approach. That should introduce more scepticism.
I’m gonna go with Occam’s razor here and just assume the owner of the company knows more about this than I do.
The simpler explanation here is that he's embarrassed for making a stupid impulse purchase and now he's lashing out.
One easy way to judge the reliability of this claim: https://twitter.com/search?q=2fa&src=typed_query
One of the "unneeded" microservices they just shut down was the one that let you log in with 2FA.