I just saw something interesting at my WordPress.com dashboard… click to enlarge.

Windows Live Writer test post at WordPress.com?

This post is a test post inserted into your WordPress blog by Windows Live Writer. While you’re setting up your blog for Windows Live Writer to work with it, it’ll ask you to optionally allow it to sent a test post, detect what your blog looks like (I forget its purpose) and delete it almost immediately thereafter.

And, well, someone at Automattic apparently was setting up Windows Live Writer with WordPress.com News and the test post happened to show up even though it was deleted very quickly after being posted.

Nice catch if I may say so myself!

EDIT [9:22 pm]: Nope, it isn’t there anymore. I’ve also blurred the alphanumeric serial code thingamajig in case of any potential security implications.

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