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And now it starts, this is exactly the kind of issue everyone was predicting to start happen when Musk fired half the company and started pushing the remaining

And now it starts, this is exactly the kind of issue everyone was predicting to start happen when Musk fired half the company and started pushing the remaining staff towards the door, and more or less in the timeline expected. Somehow some routine task related to the integration with the service that sends out 2fa authentication codes was not done, it could be non-technical like an forgotten/missed bill payment, or some technical bug/change that broke the integration.

drstewart 4y ago
Worse bugs than this have occurred at fully staffed companies like Github, Google, or Facebook, so why is this the end of the world?
- Stranger43 4y ago
  It's not the end of the world(or even twitter) unless the reason they missed a payment is that twitter is insolvent, it's merely a indication that twitter isn't bound for new greatness anytime soon. The likely scenario for pre-musk twitter is a slow decent towards irrelevance which frankly might not be a bad thing for society. And the way it's likely to happen is death by a thousand cuts as the roughly 250million(mostly non-us based btw) non celebrity users of twitters start to be annoyed with the twitter experience and drift towards different sources for casual entertainment.
  - drstewart 4y ago
    >it's merely a indication that twitter isn't bound for new greatness anytime soon. So what was the indication when Github's database was falling over daily last year? >The likely scenario for pre-musk twitter is a slow decent towards irrelevance which frankly might not be a bad thing for society. And the way it's likely to happen is death by a thousand cuts as the roughly 250million(mostly non-us based btw) non celebrity users of twitters start to be annoyed with the twitter experience and drift towards different sources for casual entertainment. You're conflating product issues with technical issues now.
    - Stranger43 4y ago
      The product is the technical execution when your twitter. Big changes causing downtime will always happen what will kill a company is a string of low level annoyances that just keep getting worse especially if the company don't really have a product other then "convenience" to sell.
leros 4y ago
I worked tangential to a service like this. Every month or so we had to update a library that would verify phone numbers as new phone blocks were setup by providers. It was a huge pain in the butt. If we missed upgrading, we'd inevitably start getting customer complaints that their phone wasn't being accepted.
torben-friis 4y ago
> And now it starts No, now it ends. (sorry, couldn't resist)

drstewart 4y ago

Worse bugs than this have occurred at fully staffed companies like Github, Google, or Facebook, so why is this the end of the world?

Stranger43 4y ago
It's not the end of the world(or even twitter) unless the reason they missed a payment is that twitter is insolvent, it's merely a indication that twitter isn't bound for new greatness anytime soon. The likely scenario for pre-musk twitter is a slow decent towards irrelevance which frankly might not be a bad thing for society. And the way it's likely to happen is death by a thousand cuts as the roughly 250million(mostly non-us based btw) non celebrity users of twitters start to be annoyed with the twitter experience and drift towards different sources for casual entertainment.
- drstewart 4y ago
  >it's merely a indication that twitter isn't bound for new greatness anytime soon. So what was the indication when Github's database was falling over daily last year? >The likely scenario for pre-musk twitter is a slow decent towards irrelevance which frankly might not be a bad thing for society. And the way it's likely to happen is death by a thousand cuts as the roughly 250million(mostly non-us based btw) non celebrity users of twitters start to be annoyed with the twitter experience and drift towards different sources for casual entertainment. You're conflating product issues with technical issues now.
  - Stranger43 4y ago
    The product is the technical execution when your twitter. Big changes causing downtime will always happen what will kill a company is a string of low level annoyances that just keep getting worse especially if the company don't really have a product other then "convenience" to sell.

leros 4y ago

I worked tangential to a service like this. Every month or so we had to update a library that would verify phone numbers as new phone blocks were setup by providers. It was a huge pain in the butt. If we missed upgrading, we'd inevitably start getting customer complaints that their phone wasn't being accepted.

torben-friis 4y ago

> And now it starts No, now it ends. (sorry, couldn't resist)