Whelp Twitter already scrapped the Official Tag only a few hours after launch
twitter's staff in IT Ops/Deployment/SysEng/etc must be having heart attacks:
- this feature was developed very, very quickly. i doubt it was properly tested.
- twitter's IT infrastructure is MASSIVE. you don't just deploy code on a lark, getting something into Production (AKA "going live") is an event that is scheduled, planned, coordinated - to ensure your business doesn't go down because the servers got hosed by some new code. i suspect elon has thrown all these precautions out the window and now the techs are stuck doing what elon wants, as quickly as elon wants. this is seriously risky.
- rolling back a feature like this is also risky, especially on such a short time-scale. i'm sure they planned the ability to remove, but who knows if they practiced the process...
would not want to be in the trenches for this one.