I had a geocities, then a myspace, then a facebook, then a twitter. I don't mind that companies come & go. In fact, they should. We just need to make sure it isn't painful when they do. That's how we end up propping up bad systems.
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Basically the "invalid handle" thing happens when certain parts of our infra goes down. Once we get that infra back up, it should fix itself.
It's a silly side-effect of outages that we need to fix!
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