Absolutely. I was responding more to the "test on your own peoples" aspect of my parent, though on reflection I can see groupthink at a company allowing something like this to get past internal testing. "Dick says it's the next big thing." It's just too onerous not to notice. Like the dog that didn't bark, it's apparently the question that didn't get asked. It certainly couldn't have been 'the change that wasn't seen.'

I think we'd all like to think that people at Twitter are the cutting edge of whatever, Web Scale, but the people who work there are in a bubble of what they're told just as much as people at other companies. When you're in the middle of an industry it's hard to be objective, increasing the odds that something like this would be thought of as a good idea. So whatever, now Twitter's got their own Microsoft Bob. At least it's dead AFAICT.