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From a purely technical perspective they could using platform.twitter.com/widgets.js that the blog includes.

• fusiongyro 13y ago
  I don't think that would result in an internal server error.
  • mixedbit 13y ago
    With some effort it could result in an internal server error. With no effort it could result in an "Internal Server Error" being printed.
    • fusiongyro 13y ago
      True. I hadn't considered that.
• nwh 13y ago
  I sincerely doubt they would use their external JS to take down competitors websites. They would instantly lose any trust across the whole internet.
  • mixedbit 13y ago
    Of course it would be a completely stupid thing for Twitter to do (unless they get hacked). Just saying that technically it is possible.
    • raylu 13y ago
      A completely stupid thing for Twitter to do, like writing a post about their 12 hours of downtime ending in rollback by 1. starting the post with 5 paragraphs and a list of all the virtues of Twitter's engineering 2. spin the fact that, after a simple DB screw-up in production it took them about 6 hours to decide to just rollback from a backup 3. end the "postmortem" (which is, by the way, completely devoid of apology) by trying to hire all the while talking about how working at Twitter is like building a rocket mid-flight (so, just like every other company)? http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/07/twitter-performance-update.html http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/07/twitter-performance-u...
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