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Twitter Locks Down Product Changes After Agreeing to Musk Bid - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-locks-down-product-changes-195751959.html https://finance

Twitter Locks Down Product Changes After Agreeing to Musk Bid - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-locks-down-product-changes-195751959.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-locks-down-product-ch...

brink 4y ago
Looks like a wise move to keep potential destructive protests at bay.
- daenz 4y ago
  Yep. I imagine Twitter has a employee base with a very strong activist streak. I'm sure some of them wouldn't mind martyring themselves to make a virtuous statement.
  - dominotw 4y ago
    only because the job market is so good.
    - systemvoltage 4y ago
      Substack made it quite clear: https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1511376638487019524?lang=en https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1511376638487019524?... Personally, I think this is great. Leave your activism at home and don't bring that to work.
    - daenz 4y ago
      I don't think it's very good to saboteurs.
memish 4y ago
> Twitter imposed the temporary ban to keep employees who may be miffed about the deal from “going rogue,” according to one of the people. What could a rogue employee do?
- notreallyserio 4y ago
  Create a repo for sharing the algorithm!
- MikeKusold 4y ago
  Twitter has a history with this. - Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account [0] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/us/politics/trump-twitter-deleted.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/us/politics/trump-twitter...
- jameshart 4y ago
  There was a case in 2017 of a Twitter employee who deleted Donald Trump’s account for 11 minutes. In 2020 hackers who gained access to Twitter admin tools that were - at the time - apparently accessible to thousands of employees were able to use that access to compromise multiple verified (blue check) Twitter accounts including Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama and Bill Gates. They used it to promote a lame Bitcoin scam. In the aftermath of that things were supposedly tightened up a little but don’t doubt a Twitter employee could do some damage.
- renewiltord 4y ago
  Once upon a time they could perform all sorts of admin-level actions. One of my friends was there back in the day and said you could literally delete someone's account or use the built-in impersonation to see someone else's DMs. Another thing they could do back then was leak PII of specific accounts. I think it was the Saudis who paid someone to get someone's name. A friend of mine was part of the FBI team that caught one of those spies.
- UncleMeat 4y ago
  Insider risk is hard as heck.
- LegitShady 4y ago
  look up confidential user information for the saudi government?
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
temp8964 4y ago
Thanks! Good to know. I was actually wondering some people may want to remove traces of what they have been doing. I wish someday we can see the internal communications lead to the Hunter Biden laptop story ban.
thejackgoode 4y ago
Are there precedents of this? This looks like there is not much trust internally. I doubt this was the first Elon’s decision
- daenz 4y ago
  The level of trust is to be expected from a company like this imo. We're in an information war all around us. Spies, saboteurs, etc, are all part of a war, and we just witnessed a coup of leadership.
- saagarjha 4y ago
  Well you’re reading about it here so clearly there are employees who aren’t above breaking the rules a bit ;)

brink 4y ago

Looks like a wise move to keep potential destructive protests at bay.

daenz 4y ago
Yep. I imagine Twitter has a employee base with a very strong activist streak. I'm sure some of them wouldn't mind martyring themselves to make a virtuous statement.
- dominotw 4y ago
  only because the job market is so good.
  - systemvoltage 4y ago
    Substack made it quite clear: https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1511376638487019524?lang=en https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1511376638487019524?... Personally, I think this is great. Leave your activism at home and don't bring that to work.
  - daenz 4y ago
    I don't think it's very good to saboteurs.

memish 4y ago

> Twitter imposed the temporary ban to keep employees who may be miffed about the deal from “going rogue,” according to one of the people. What could a rogue employee do?

notreallyserio 4y ago
Create a repo for sharing the algorithm!
MikeKusold 4y ago
Twitter has a history with this. - Rogue Twitter Employee Briefly Shuts Down Trump's Account [0] [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/us/politics/trump-twitter-deleted.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/us/politics/trump-twitter...
jameshart 4y ago
There was a case in 2017 of a Twitter employee who deleted Donald Trump’s account for 11 minutes. In 2020 hackers who gained access to Twitter admin tools that were - at the time - apparently accessible to thousands of employees were able to use that access to compromise multiple verified (blue check) Twitter accounts including Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama and Bill Gates. They used it to promote a lame Bitcoin scam. In the aftermath of that things were supposedly tightened up a little but don’t doubt a Twitter employee could do some damage.
renewiltord 4y ago
Once upon a time they could perform all sorts of admin-level actions. One of my friends was there back in the day and said you could literally delete someone's account or use the built-in impersonation to see someone else's DMs. Another thing they could do back then was leak PII of specific accounts. I think it was the Saudis who paid someone to get someone's name. A friend of mine was part of the FBI team that caught one of those spies.
UncleMeat 4y ago
Insider risk is hard as heck.
LegitShady 4y ago
look up confidential user information for the saudi government?
deleted 4y ago
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temp8964 4y ago

Thanks! Good to know. I was actually wondering some people may want to remove traces of what they have been doing. I wish someday we can see the internal communications lead to the Hunter Biden laptop story ban.

thejackgoode 4y ago

Are there precedents of this? This looks like there is not much trust internally. I doubt this was the first Elon’s decision

daenz 4y ago
The level of trust is to be expected from a company like this imo. We're in an information war all around us. Spies, saboteurs, etc, are all part of a war, and we just witnessed a coup of leadership.
saagarjha 4y ago
Well you’re reading about it here so clearly there are employees who aren’t above breaking the rules a bit ;)