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Tell me you have never worked in a large enterprise without telling me that you haven't. Elon seems completely out of his depth in handling Twitter. And so does

Tell me you have never worked in a large enterprise without telling me that you haven't. Elon seems completely out of his depth in handling Twitter. And so does many people endorsing him. For them, Twitter is a glorified website.

dmitriid 4y ago
Twitter is undoubtedly overstaffed. Their website is a trash fire that fails in spectacular ways to deliver the most basic funcionality inherent in the browser: show some text and some pictures. And it's been this way for years while they are patting themselves on the back for "creating the best PWA app in the world". However, what Musk is doing is absolutely hillarious, and is a much bigger trash fire that has nothing to do with optimizing the head count, or figuring out how to correctly reduce staffing etc. Steve Jobs returning to a flailing Apple he is not.
- babelfish 4y ago
  What are you talking about? Twitter’s resiliency program is widely known to be one of the best in the world. They’ve been around so long that they’ve literally had to invent a lot of what we consider basic modern distributed computing from scratch. It will become a trash fire with everyone who maintained these massive systems gone, but don’t imply that they created bad systems, or failed at ‘just displaying text’, because they clearly haven’t.
  - spoils19 4y ago
    It's far more likely that Elon consulted Twitter when they were having issues and just didn't take the credit. The distributed work of SpaceX and Tesla is far more important and hardened than what Twitter has achieved.
    - babelfish 4y ago
      [citation required]
    - rsynnott 4y ago
      Parody, surely?
- karmakurtisaani 4y ago
  I would not underestimate the challenges they face operating on the scale they do. I would expect problems in databases, servers, message queues propagate pretty quickly all over the system. Then you need a specific expertise to locate and fix such problems.

dmitriid 4y ago

Twitter is undoubtedly overstaffed. Their website is a trash fire that fails in spectacular ways to deliver the most basic funcionality inherent in the browser: show some text and some pictures. And it's been this way for years while they are patting themselves on the back for "creating the best PWA app in the world". However, what Musk is doing is absolutely hillarious, and is a much bigger trash fire that has nothing to do with optimizing the head count, or figuring out how to correctly reduce staffing etc. Steve Jobs returning to a flailing Apple he is not.

babelfish 4y ago
What are you talking about? Twitter’s resiliency program is widely known to be one of the best in the world. They’ve been around so long that they’ve literally had to invent a lot of what we consider basic modern distributed computing from scratch. It will become a trash fire with everyone who maintained these massive systems gone, but don’t imply that they created bad systems, or failed at ‘just displaying text’, because they clearly haven’t.
- spoils19 4y ago
  It's far more likely that Elon consulted Twitter when they were having issues and just didn't take the credit. The distributed work of SpaceX and Tesla is far more important and hardened than what Twitter has achieved.
  - babelfish 4y ago
    [citation required]
  - rsynnott 4y ago
    Parody, surely?
karmakurtisaani 4y ago
I would not underestimate the challenges they face operating on the scale they do. I would expect problems in databases, servers, message queues propagate pretty quickly all over the system. Then you need a specific expertise to locate and fix such problems.