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by wafflesraccoon 1896 days ago
This is the homepage for me currently, any idea what's going on?

Edit: Extracted the image via the GET call, did Twitter's image hosting server get compromised?

https://imgur.com/a/fjWyIFH

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> any idea what's going on? wtf

It's just down. Not sure you're going to get a detailed root-cause analysis right now.

> Extracted the image via the GET call, did Twitter's image hosting server get compromised?

What makes you leap to that conclusion? That's just their login page.

Wait, really? Not like I'm a heavy Twitter user, but I did have an account there I used daily a few years back, and another I made just a few days ago for a bit - thus, a recent visit to the login page. And I have never seen that glitchcore stuff before.

edit: Google Image Search doesn't seem to know much about it either, with only four results, all from Pinterest [1]. I'd expect a lot more hits, if it had been Twitter's login page background for as long as you seem to suggest here. Maybe I've misunderstood what you're saying?

[1] https://www.google.com/search?sa=G&hl=en&tbs=simg%3ACAQStgEJ...

I had not seen it in years, I figured it was a generic blue background or something.
That's all I've ever seen it to have, too. Maybe a recent A/B test with a low experiment cohort % or something?
It's been like this for at least several months.
That's just how it looks now. It has for a while.
Ah, okay! I had not seen it in years. Good to know
I haven't seen the homepage in years. Could very well be their new style.