Dont get me wrong, i totally believe there are exceptions made for specific accounts in exactly this fashion, but the stuff seen in the screenshots is just completely fabricated. Whatever this is, its not how Twitter would configure exceptions for stuff like this.
Read this for a rundown of why its either completely fabricated or at least not trustworthy
This keeps getting posted today and its fucking stupid. There are many legitimate points to criticize about Twitter and Musk so there is no point in spreading fake shit.
the way twitter handled this (banning this user) is going to make people spiral and believe this was legitimate, as well. throwing a lot of fuel on the fire, par for the course with twitter under musk leadership, unfortunately
I wish they could be more authoritative. Basically they say “well, maybe, but maybe not” with no clear examples either way.
Would a variable have a subdomain? Unlikely but Musk’s jenius coding antics do not allow us to dismiss it either.
The security certificate is valid. Ok.
Why use okta for this? Again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The banned words include British and Australian slurs - ? Ok?
And ultimately:
As this story develops, users and observers alike will be watching closely to see if any additional evidence emerges to support or refute the claims made in the Twitter API leak.
Until then, the true nature of Twitter’s content moderation practices for high-profile accounts remains a subject of speculation and debate.
Definitely fake. I've worked in IT, and I know Okta's offerings. They do multi-factor and SSO stuff, basically password management stuff on steroids along with any regulatory compliance checklist stuff.
They do not rent out cloud infrastructure for other companies to use.
It's not how code works. There's no reason to send this information to the client because the filtering runs server side, so the client never needs to know about it.
Anecdotal but I’ve encountered a lot of this lately. It seems people have taken to dropping the term “API” arbitrarily into posts and conversations to signal knowledgeability with recognizable lingo, often resulting in nearly plausible but not quite accurate technical descriptions.
TBF I bet it works most of the time, due to the ubiquity of interfaces in software, and I may only notice it when they feel emboldened by the success of their first attempt.
Hard to believe this is true. Not the "feature" itself (that's very believable), but the claim that this was exposed as okta configs - that just doesn't make much sense. Not impossible, but very unlikely.
I legitimately don't understand why anyone that isn't a far right asshole is still on twitter.
If it's just them, they'll fight each other and eventually abandon it.
If you think you're staying to "fight" them, then you're giving them what they want: an argument in a place they control and a target for the rest to focus on.
Probably true, but this is almost certainly a bs source. The code and list of names doesn't make sense since Elon is online 23/7 and his real list wouldn't even fit inside a 50 page dossier...
I actually got called and Elon Defender for pointing out that this is most likely fake, I'm glad most people here at least came to that same conclusion.
I am fairly show this has already been debunked. That's not how programming works, you wouldn't have a list of people on the API side. There's absolutely no reason for it to live on that side, it would be on the server because that's where it would have to run anyway.
Didn't make sense being that Okta is a verification system. But then again I've never implemented Okta, just administer it for end users and the systems that connect to it for verification purposes.