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Someone on Twitter said that Twitter has gone full Monty Python and I fully agree. I feel sad for all that will be lost - the wit, the wisdom, the ability to r
by andrei_says_ 4y ago
Someone on Twitter said that Twitter has gone full Monty Python and I fully agree.
I feel sad for all that will be lost - the wit, the wisdom, the ability to reach out to pretty much anyone.
- ActorNightly 4y agoIn other news, peoples desire to virtue signal is as strong as ever. George Hotz is going to be doing a 12 week internship at Twitter to optimize their code. And if you know anything about Hotz, he doesn't involve himself with any bullshit, and most certainly knows what he is doing software wise. Twitter is far from lost.
- netsharc 4y agoI don't know what his true motivations are (do you?), but maybe he's just curious what the codebase of Twitter looks like; or maybe Musk is promising a big paycheck if he manages to... to do what? I don't think Musk even knows what his goal is.
- Fatnino 4y agoNo, Hotz said in public while arguing with some other person on Twitter that he is willing to do 12 weeks at twitter for just cost of living in sf. Then Musk dropped in and said "you're on".
- benjaminwootton 4y agoI must have seen 50 people claiming they were leaving and sharing their Mastodon. Every single time they've continued tweeting with exactly the same frequency. I also suspect they were a pretty bloated organisation and they needed to change things radically. It will ruffle a lot of Elon hating feathers, but Twitter is going nowhere.
- kaba0 4y agoCan you honestly believe that an organization can continue working with 3/4 of its stuff gone? Hell, there are projects with a bus factor of one beneath all of our infrastructure (insert relevant xkcd here), and those are much simpler than such a monstrosity like twitter.
- matthewmacleod 4y agoI’m not being a dick - I genuinely can’t tell if this is parody or not and so I find it quite exciting. The idea of geohot pulling a 12-week “internship” to “optimise Twitter” to spite the hordes of “virtue signallers” is so hilariously self-referential and Pythonesque it’s fantastic.
- sph 4y agoIndeed, I hope it's really witty sarcasm, rather than seriously thinking that there's actually a single 10x engineer out there that will come in and optimize the shit out of Twitter. They could write an entire Silicon Valley season out of this prompt.
- tmaly 4y agoI think it would take 12 weeks just to find out where the tech debt is.
- ActorNightly 4y agoExcept this actually happened IRL. https://twitter.com/jinglejamOP/status/1310718738417811459 https://twitter.com/jinglejamOP/status/1310718738417811459
- ActorNightly 4y agoHe isn't pulling an internship to spite the virtue signalers, he is doing it because he believes in the product and its purpose. The point was that anyone who is calling Twitter dead is virtue signaling.
- jasmer 4y agoThis this satire?
- andrei_says_ 4y agoI believe it referred to the level of absurdity of their leadership’s actions, all done in public - reaching the point of performance art.
- DavideNL 4y agoIsn't everyone just going to move to Mastodon eventually? Perhaps it will be a slow transition, just like Signal has gained more and more users in the past years.
- benjaminwootton 4y agoI have over 500 contracts in my phone book. I recently installed Signal and 8 people were on there. I'm not sure how to count but I suspect 450+ are on WhatsApp. The minorities can be very loud on this stuff. Most people don't care.
- yosame 4y agoProbably not, unless there's some major changes. It's a fairly unintuitive platform to use, and it's not really scalable.