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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @03:50AM (#33703560)
Well, define 'failure'. Minor outages like the one you are talking about were happening from time to time long before Musk bought Twitter, and it even suffered long outages frequently - remember all those fail whales?

I meant that there will be no catastrophic failure that will permanently (or even for a few days) stop Twitter from working at all.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by fatneckbeardz on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @04:55AM (#33703987)
failure. noun. with no security team, hackers are able to get in easily.

everyone's DMs leak, all the anonymous accounts have their identity revealed, and all Twitter's clients (advertisers) have their bank account info made public.

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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by Andrew_nenakhov on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:26AM (#33704183)
Yeah, I don't think anything remotely close to it will happen, unless some of the fired developers have left themselves some backdoors which they'll give (sell) access to it to someone.
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Re:Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE by fatneckbeardz on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:33AM (#33704231)
does this stuff happen automatically? is there a robot that goes out and reads about all the new zero-day exploits and patches all the software without human intervention?
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