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Don’t log out of Twitter or you might not get back in, thanks to Elon Musk
Elon Musk fired a Twitter engineer who disagreed with his assessment on why the app was slow for users worldwide.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk at the Offshore Northern Seas 2022 (ONS) meeting in Stavanger, Norway on 29 August 2022. Photo: Carina Johansen/NTB/AFP
In the latest Twitter saga twist, Elon Musk fired a member of the Android app development team via a tweet and implemented changes which could affect your login process.
And as one would imagine, it started with a tweet.
Because why woudn’t it.
Musk fires employee on Twitter
On Sunday, Musk apologised “for Twitter being super slow in many countries”.
He also tagged a Twitter employee and asked what is he doing to fix the issue.
Musk said: “App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs [Remote procedure calls] just to render a home timeline”.
Eric Frohnhoefer, who had been part of the Android development said Musk’s assessment was incorrect.
The billionaire replied: “Then please correct me. What is the right number? Twitter is super slow on Android. What have you done to fix it”.
Frohnhoefer gave a detailed explanation – which can be viewed here. But long story short, we are now here:
While the app loaded fairly fast in the United States, users India and other parts of the world had 20 to 30-second delays.
According to Musk, this was “due to bad batching/verbose comms, actually useful data transferred is low”.
Bye bye 2FA
He then announced that Twitter “will be turning off ‘microservices’ bloatware”, adding: “Less than 20% are actually needed for Twitter to work”.
It’s rumoured that Musk either deleted or shutdown part of Twitter’s 2FA (Two-factor authentication) infrastructure as well.
Several users said they were unable to log back in after logging out.
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How to secure access to Twitter
Some users have had luck by logging in with backup codes. If you don’t want to deactivated 2FA but still want use your account, simply save a new code. Just in case.
From the main menu, go to Settings and Support, then select Settings and Privacy. Select Security and Account Access from the list, then click on Two-factor authentication (if the setting is active).
The option to view your backup codes will be on the next page under the section title Additional Methods (of this extremely convulated process).
You will be given a 12-digit back-up code. Copy this code and keep it safe for the next login, if needed.
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