It would also be a total Elon move to confuse the open sourcing of Twitter's internal code with actual transparency.

You would need, at a minimum, a neutral third-party audit of Twitter's servers to conclude that the source code we see on GitHub is, in fact, the source code running Twitter. How often will they keep their GitHub repo in sync with their internal code, I wonder.

Presumably Twitter uses a version control system. But they scrubbed the history so that's also a point against their "transparency" claims. Without knowing the when and the why of changes you can't understand what you are looking at. People are pointing to that "author_is_elon" without knowing whether that was done before Elon bought Twitter or after.

But even then, git history can be faked.

> This is a great thing.

I disagree. It's the opposite. It provides the illusion of openness without the quality of openness, thus killing the debate once and for all.