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Almost like one of those RSA/Google Authenticator/etc rotating numbers... always 6 characters, seemingly random, somewhat pronounceable. Weird.



As it is twitted exactly every 2 minutes it can actually be a kind of current confirmation or authentication code.


Dead man's switch?


Or like a numbers station. Twitter would make a lot of sense for that, actually.


Indeed! That was my first thought and was the reason that Ask HN post stuck with me.

See also: https://theawl.com/the-real-weird-twitter-is-espionage-twitt...


What does it remind you of? I haven't used GA.

They're following the format 'bababa', where 'b' is a random consonant and 'a' is a random vowel.




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