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Ah ok. :thumbsup: I described how the logic works above, but we're always subject to and victims of replication or cache-expiration latency. So it could have been that.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/accounts-and-users/mut... "If a follow or friend relationship exists it is destroyed."

This is correct. When we process a block request from user A -> user B, we remove the follow edges between user A -> user B and user B -> user A, and then add a block edge from use…

Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12789001 Only one third party app receives Promoted Tweets, and no third party apps are required to display them.

All third party apps (except a single Enterprise tool) do not receive Promoted Tweets. They're only requested and displayed within the Twitter "Owned and Operated" clients.

"Meet the Nerds"

I, personally, don't know. We'll have some kind of post-mortem internally to work out what happened, and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I, personally, don't know. We'll have some kind of post-mortem internally to work out what happened, and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.

I agree. I tend to think of it like this: https://twitter.com/attaboy/status/550003457982087169

I don't know what comms has said publicly and where, but this is a description: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8823792

Sorry, this is me: http://twitter.com/x5315 . I'll update my bio, how's that? The 'bug' didn't last for over a year and a half. The product has existed for that long. The bug was i…

This was a bug. We rectified it as soon as the issue was brought to our attention. The original version of this product launched in March 2013. Its intention was to just "bump" bra…

Nope.

I got my bank account with just my passport.

Sam, you don't hold down a fort. You just hold it. Forts don't fly away. <3.

Isn't this post from the 1st of April?

I'm pretty sure the speakers were still there when we left.

It's the wrong typeface.

What I meant was that we care about uptime, and we're working on improving that.

We care. We're working on it.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/21/you-might-be-able-to-downlo...

When we accept complexity while striving for simplicity, we end up with actual features.