Comment by petercooper
15 years ago
How the fsck is this Adam Croot's fault? Twitter can't clamp down on all accounts that used reserved words from every programming language. It's the third party services that are in the wrong by requesting stuff they know is not required.
Is the error in the 3rd parties' code, or in Twitter's @Anywhere API that the 3rd parties are calling? The article isn't clear, though it sounds like the 3rd parties are calling the API with bad data, and the API isn't checking its inputs. If so, then both the 3rd parties and the Twitter API are at fault.