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If you make a shutdown button, that becomes a new target for hackers

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There's always a shutdown button. Twitter can simply edit the DNS records to point to a static maintenance page.

Yup, people forget sometimes the core fundamentals here. These are just websites at the end of the day.

Any more of a target than the other administration/moderation tools Twitter has available?

To what end?

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There's always a shutdown button. Twitter can simply edit the DNS records to point to a static maintenance page.

Yup, people forget sometimes the core fundamentals here. These are just websites at the end of the day.

Any more of a target than the other administration/moderation tools Twitter has available?

To what end?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse