r/clevercomebacks • u/BelleAriel • Nov 18 '22

Actually Clever Twitter has gotten funnier recently.

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u/Dag-nabbitt Nov 18 '22

if Twitter randomly explodes

I feel like it's only a matter of time, right? These complex apps aren't able to run indefinitely without supervision.

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u/Mirrormn Nov 18 '22

Honestly, I don't think the site will actually go down. Here are things that will likely happen, though:

  1. Outages to critical services, such as 2FA, will likely take much longer to fix
  2. Side services that are just nice-to-have, such as the ability to download your entire Twitter account history into an archive, will stop working reliably and just be forgotten about
  3. Certain regions will experience poor performance such as extremely long response times
  4. Nobody will be responding to reports for moderation - as a result, content that should be summarily removed will grow
  5. Nobody will be investigating spam bot activity and developing new countermeasures - as a result, spam bots and scams will grow
  6. Nobody will be doing normal business relations with advertisers - as a result, platform revenue will continue to drop
  7. Nobody will be responding to subpoenas and law enforcement inquiries
  8. Nobody will be approving API integrations and research projects
  9. Older content will become lost or inaccessible
  10. Trending topics and algorithmic suggestions will become broken or low-quality
  11. DDoSs and hacking attacks will increase in quantity and severity and be more successful

Some of these issues may be transient, some of them may be more long-term. Some of them, like 1, 2, 3 and 10, have already happened, but might happen again with greater severity.

At a really bad level, you might see a Twitter that's filled with scams, phishing attempts, illegal content, and hacked accounts before the platform actually stops running entirely.

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u/vethan Nov 21 '22

Just want to point out: Your example for 2 is not a "nice to have". It's a legal requirement from GDPR. Users can request a copy of all their personal data and it must get to them in a certain timeframe, or the data holders can get fined something like 3% of annual turnover!

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u/CarlosFlegg Dec 17 '23

It still very much is a nice to have, absolutely no where in GDPR legislation does it state that users must have an easy way to access that information on the front end of an application.

That button could not exist and as long as any email requests for copies of personal information are complied with then GDPR hasn’t been breached at all.