Twitter Suspends, Unsuspends, Suspends, Unsuspends CascadedBug Account That Mocked Its Downtime
from the where's-the-humor? dept
Twitter is usually pretty good about protecting people’s right to do parodies, but apparently someone there got a little sensitive about a parody account called CascadedBug, after the supposed cascade bug that caused quite a bit of downtime. Apparently Twitter suspended the account. Then unsuspended it. Then suspended it again. Then unsuspended it again. No matter what, it seems ridiculous that the account was ever suspended. Twitter, whose execs normally have a decent sense of humor, would have won a lot more points with the public by just tweeting at the account, rather than suspending it…
Filed Under: cascade bug, parody, suspension
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Comments on “Twitter Suspends, Unsuspends, Suspends, Unsuspends CascadedBug Account That Mocked Its Downtime”
This sounds more like a software engineer who took the insults personally and decided to toy with the minds of those who’d dare to poke fun than the move of an executive.
“Oops, looks like I accidentally hit ‘deactivate account’, I’ll just go get another mug of coffee before I fix that… There, all better; ah, darn, looks like I did it again. That undo button looks nigh impossible to click again with out a sandwich…”
Who was the account holder for CascadedBug?
Was his name Schr?dinger by any chance?
Anyone else take this as a joke? The CascadeBug account just seems to be having a bit of a downtime issue occasionally.
“Apparently Twitter suspended the account.”
No no no no, you misunderstood, the account wasn’t suspended. It was just having some down time.
Who was the account holder for CascadedBug?
Just don’t open the box. The smell will knock you out.
Re:
I thought the same thing.
“We began recovery at around 10:10am PDT, dropped again around 10:40am PDT, and then began full recovery at 11:08am PDT.”
They were doing the same to the CascadeBug account: down, then up, then down again.
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It was an exercise, they were doing pushups.
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Techdirt is usually pretty good about protecting people’s right to do parodies, but apparently someone there got a little sensitive about a parody account called CascadedBug, after it experienced some downtime of it’s own.
When I saw the Twitter outage, I half expected to hear that Twitter had been illegally raided by the DOJ because they had heard about Kim Dotcom’s new Twitter account