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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by EdwardDiego on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:46AM (#33702480)
As I said, a new form.

They already had billing integration, even if you're accessing it via a new route, and they already had a boolean on your account.

Like I said, not small, but not exactly huge either.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by sundvor on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:02AM (#33702567)
Except there was a crapload of social engineering testing around this feature that was just skipped altogether.

Suddenly that simple change had the potential for catastrophic consequences.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by EdwardDiego on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:27AM (#33702720)
Yep, doing it right would've been harder, but Musk was after doing it right now.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by sundvor on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @08:16PM (#33713842)
I guess you could say doing it right wasn't exactly rocket science.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by EdwardDiego on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:20AM (#33731000)
/golf clap.
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