Chaos at Twitter

[wdwmagic]

What are your thoughts on the goings on at Twitter?

Predictions of Twitter failing as soon as Monday.

In response to staff leaving, former Twitter vice-president Bruce Daisley told the BBC there were former Twitter engineers claiming the social media platform could "fail as soon as Monday".
"There's a large number of features that really seem to be predicated on having engineers on site," he said.
"If those engineers have gone, then it does threaten the sustainability of the product.

Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week

It comes amid reports that large numbers of workers have resigned from the social media platform.

www.bbc.com

 

[senor_jorge]

Too early to tell, but some issues sooner than later wouldn’t surprise me at all.

 

[JPPT1974]

Would not want to work there. As really Elon Musk I hear works 121 hours per week and he does have four companies like Telsa and Twitter of course among them. But also hear he does not like to take vacation. But really eighty hours a work week. It is very much creating a hostile, toxic work environment and ruining over in your emotional and mental well being in health. Not just physical.

 

[Dead2009]

The site is still up, 3 days after the doom and gloom began.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

I suspect it’ll be fine, every major transition is hard, once Musk installs a new management team it’ll run as smoothly as it did before, just with a different philosophy.

Personally I loathe most social media, Twitters only redeeming quality to me is Bioreconstruct updates, so I wouldn’t be upset to see it fail but it would just be replaced with a carbon copy app the same day, nothing would change.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

What are your thoughts on the goings on at Twitter?

Predictions of Twitter failing as soon as Monday.

In response to staff leaving, former Twitter vice-president Bruce Daisley told the BBC there were former Twitter engineers claiming the social media platform could "fail as soon as Monday".
"There's a large number of features that really seem to be predicated on having engineers on site," he said.
"If those engineers have gone, then it does threaten the sustainability of the product.

Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week

It comes amid reports that large numbers of workers have resigned from the social media platform.

www.bbc.com

So now that the dust has settled a bit, apparantly you can fire 75% of Twitter workers and have it run better and faster than ever.

What were these employees doing at Twittter all day long?

 

[TwilightZone]

Websites come and go. Twitter's story isn't the first time this has happened. Won't be surprised if its gone. Won't be surprised if it stays, just with a smaller audience either.

If anything this proves the importance of archiving and not keeping your eggs in one basket further.

 

[JoeCamel]

I suspect it’ll be fine, every major transition is hard, once Musk installs a new management team it’ll run as smoothly as it did before, just with a different philosophy.

Personally I loathe most social media, Twitters only redeeming quality to me is Bioreconstruct updates, so I wouldn’t be upset to see it fail but it would just be replaced with a carbon copy app the same day, nothing would change.

A month on how do you see it now?

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

A month on how do you see it now?

Bioreconstruct is still posting so that’s all that matters for me.



I quickly lost interest in the Musk takeover so unless it makes the news for other reasons I don’t pay any attention. As far as my world goes nothing has changed, people still tweet and I still find it irrelevant (other than amazing bioreconstruct photos).

 

[JoeCamel]

Bioreconstruct is still posting so that’s all that matters for me.


I quickly lost interest in the Musk takeover so unless it makes the news for other reasons I don’t pay any attention. As far as my world goes nothing has changed, people still tweet and I still find it irrelevant (other than amazing bioreconstruct photos).

Latest was he said policy would be decided by polls then put up a poll if he should step down. Vote was yes so he now says only people who pay $8 can vote in the polls and has not stepped down. bio needs another platform fast

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

Latest was he said policy would be decided by polls then put up a poll if he should step down. Vote was yes so he now says only people who pay $8 can vote in the polls and has not stepped down. bio needs another platform fast

I was watching a timeline video of the most popular websites the other day and chuckled when MySpace popped up, I’d completely forgotten they existed and forgotten they had 100 million users at one time.

Musk will learn quick, or watch Twitter be replaced by the next “Facebook”, unfortunately for Twitter Musk can afford to burn $44 billion out of principle if he wants to.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Musk will learn quick, or watch Twitter be replaced by the next “Facebook”, unfortunately for Twitter Musk can afford to burn $44 billion out of principle if he wants to.

Is that why he’s already announced investment opportunities? Musk isn’t just burning his own money.

 

[Vegas Disney Fan]

Is that why he’s already announced investment opportunities? Musk isn’t just burning his own money.

IMHO you’d have to be crazy to invest in Twitter right now, people gave billions to a bunch of kids running an unregulated FTX though so I’m sure he’ll find plenty of speculators willing to part with their hard earned dough.

 

[lazyboy97o]

IMHO you’d have to be crazy to invest in Twitter right now, people gave billions to a bunch of kids running an unregulated FTX though so I’m sure he’ll find plenty of speculators willing to part with their hard earned dough.

It’s not just now. The $44 billion was not all his money and some prior investors didn’t sell their shares to him.

 

[Dead2009]

It's been roughly a month now and Twitter is still standing. So much for that doom, gloom and chaos.

 

[lazyboy97o]

It's been roughly a month now and Twitter is still standing. So much for that doom, gloom and chaos.

Did you miss the huge third-party client outage that occurred just a few days ago?

 

[Dead2009]

Did you miss the huge third-party client outage that occurred just a few days ago?

Key word in that sentence, third party. Not the main site.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Key word in that sentence, third party. Not the main site.

They work through systems provided by Twitter. Twitter's stuff broke. Even the main website has been plagued by errors and bugs. Then there are things like Twitter now being a new haven for CSAM. Twitter is not firing on all cylinders.

 

[wdwmagic]

Did you miss the huge third-party client outage that occurred just a few days ago?

Starting to think the third party drop isn't an outage, it is deliberate.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Starting to think the third party drop isn't an outage, it is deliberate.

You were right. It’s amazing that all of the third party clients were violating the terms of service and nobody ever noticed before Twitter went hardcore.