Somebody at Twitter 1.0 left a poison pill algorithm hidden in the code to keep certain people shadow banned after they left or were fired.
(media.greatawakening.win)
🕊️ TWITTER CRIME SCENE 🕊️
The thing it guarantees is that if the code is ever destroyed, there is no one who could recreate it.
In system engineering, we call this "losing control of the system definition." It is bad ju-ju and it certainly happens. I might say "it happens to the best of us," but the reality is that anyone who allows this to happen at all, does not deserve to be called "the best of us." It is just sloppy. Like Michaelangelo sculpting a "David" with six fingers on one hand.
It has unfortunate real-life implications, as 346 passengers and crew found out in regard to the 737 MAX MCAS software.