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> The accusations were not exactly specific. You're splitting hairs.

Have you read Mudge's actual whistleblower report, rather than just media articles about it? It doesn't go into extreme detail (at least in the unredacted parts), but there are plenty of specifics.

> In July, Twitter experienced a global outage of ~45 minutes, the longest outage global outage in years. If Twitter was some shocking, never before seen level of insecure, it wouldn't have been 45 minutes, and there'd be a lot more of them.

You seem to be conflating security with availability. There are plenty of ways to be insecure (many of them detailed in the report) that have no effect on availability.



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