[2014-02-23] Mt. Gox Removes All Twitter Posts

[hilariousandco]

http://www.coindesk.com/mt-gox-twitter-posts-removed/

In a move sure to unsettle its waiting customers, Mt. Gox has removed all posts from its official Twitter feed. Readers started noticing the missing tweets just a short time after CEO Mark Karpeles resigned his seat on the Bitcoin Foundation’s Board of Directors.

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[Hiroaki]

Another strange move. Epic...

I wonder what the outcome will be.

[hilariousandco]

Another strange move. Epic...

I wonder what the outcome will be.

Yeah, very strange. I'm not sure what the hell they are they playing at. They seem to be doing everything they can to cause panic and confusion.

[Anddos]

Maybe there twiter was taken over by hackers?

[abracadabra]

There's a rumor that it's due to a flaw in the twitter protocol.


 















P.S. Not my joke.. thanks to @mandiees for that one...

[Rannasha]

Tweet malleability.

[hilariousandco]

Not sure if there's any truth to it but somebody pointed out this:

A reddit user thinks there could be a more mundane reason for Twitter:

It was linked automatically to a service desk and the user contacted Gox about it - so he thinks they are just setting up their Twitter differently.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1yrqpm/mtgox_deletes_all_tweets_from_their_twitter_feed/?sort=new

EDIT look for:

[–]Delerium69 1 point 1 hour ago
Actually i mentioned this to the support management last week about it not being fit for purpose. Looks like they've listened.
Our service desk system was linked directly to twitter meaning that anytime anyone tweeted us, it created a ticket and was responded to via twitter when we resolve the cases.

Tweet malleability.

 . A couple of others I've seen:

Subscribe to their twitter account:

https://twitter.com/mtgox

They've just deleted all their tweets. That's not a good sign. No idea why they did that though.

It was an issue with tweet ID maleability. Tweet withdrawals will be enabled soon.

It's clearly a bug with Twitter... Everything will work again when Twitter fixes the problem...

I'm not so sure. No one else has a bug on their twitter.

[CoinDiver]

Yeah, very strange. I'm not sure what the hell they are they playing at. They seem to be doing everything they can to cause panic and confusion.

Now why would they do that?

It's not like you could sell off a bunch of the BTC they're holding, stop BTC withdrawal, tank their own exchange, buy up the cheap BTC on their own exchange, then open BTC withdrawals and claim "see, we're good guys"... The community has proven they'll come back to MtGox no matter how stupid shit gets.

[hostmaster]

There's a rumor that it's due to a flaw in the twitter protocol.


 


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P.S. Not my joke.. thanks to @mandiees for that one...

[hilariousandco]

Yeah, very strange. I'm not sure what the hell they are they playing at. They seem to be doing everything they can to cause panic and confusion.

Now why would they do that?

It's not like you could sell off a bunch of the BTC they're holding, stop BTC withdrawal, tank their own exchange, buy up the cheap BTC on their own exchange, then open BTC withdrawals and claim "see, we're good guys"... The community has proven they'll come back to MtGox no matter how stupid shit gets.

It's possible, but I'm not sure if Mark's that smart.