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Facebook is copying the blue check thing from Twitter. I wonder if Zuck will also copy firing 75% of the staff.. lol.

by mjfl 4y ago

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airstrike 4y ago
I mean, twitter.com seems to manage to continue running fine with only 25% of staff left. I'm sure others are looking at that and going "hmmm"
- hansvm 4y ago
  Am I misremembering reading about a major prolonged outage a few days ago?
  - seanhunter 4y ago
    You aren’t talking about this major prolonged outage two weeks ago https://www.techradar.com/news/live/twitter-outtage-what-happened-when-will-service-be-restored-and-more https://www.techradar.com/news/live/twitter-outtage-what-hap... Or this outage today https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/story/twitter-outage-twitter-down-micro-blogging-site-unable-to-load-posts-2338767-2023-02-23 https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/story/twitter-outage-tw... because that one was brief YOu might be talking about this one https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/14/23215529/twitter-down-outage-error-capacity https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/14/23215529/twitter-down-out... …or maybe this one https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/16/twitter_okays_cannabis_ads/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/16/twitter_okays_cannabi... It’s sort of hard to tell because everything’s working so well and is so fine that there are quite a few outages to choose from.
  - hinkley 4y ago
    Each outage will get worse as the skeleton crew burns out. I’m a fan of small focused teams. This ain’t how that happens.
- piva00 4y ago
  Bots are even more insidious than before, I deleted my account and now only use it to follow breaking news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and I constantly get errors, videos not loading, glitches on the page. Not sure what you mean "running fine", I'm dreading opening Twitter links because it got so frustrating... It's attrition, it's slowly degrading. It's definitely breaking, in my experience.
  - Nextgrid 4y ago
    > Bots are even more insidious than before Not sure if that's actually caused by the recent changes as opposed to confirmation bias or merely the renewed attention that Twitter recently got. I wouldn't comment on their moderation being better or worse since the acquisition considering they were already at zero as they couldn't even regex-out very obvious crypto scam tweets in reply to high-profile accounts. > I'm dreading opening Twitter links because it got so frustrating Me too, though that has nothing to do with the acquisition and was just as bad as before - something to do with justifying having dozens/hundreds of frontend engineers so they shipped a monster weighing megabytes to display ~300 characters of text.
    - scrollaway 4y ago
      Twitter shedded a lot of its real users due to the takeover itself and the decisions that ensued. It’s simple maths that there would be more bots now.
- astrange 4y ago
  The ad quality is pretty majorly degraded since they laid off all the account managers. Not that it was good in the first place. And you can't have SMS 2FA and the employees can't have Slack anymore because they can't afford it.
- Moldoteck 4y ago
  imo working fine is a stretch and I don't mean outages. This month I've encountered a lot of strange bugs in the app. Sometimes it'll just not load new content, sometimes it's notifying that somebody posted something, but on press, nothing new is shown, strange things related to retweets. I don't really remember so many bugs before musk
- ulfw 4y ago
  How is it running fine? Did you think the servers would shut themselves off? Of course it's still running. But if you think twitter is running fine you're self selecting news and are ignoring reality.

Facebook is copying the blue check thing from Twitter. I wonder if Zuck will also copy firing 75% of the staff.. lol.

by mjfl 4y ago

Facebook is copying the blue check thing from Twitter. I wonder if Zuck will also copy firing 75% of the staff.. lol.

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airstrike 4y ago

I mean, twitter.com seems to manage to continue running fine with only 25% of staff left. I'm sure others are looking at that and going "hmmm"

hansvm 4y ago
Am I misremembering reading about a major prolonged outage a few days ago?
- seanhunter 4y ago
  You aren’t talking about this major prolonged outage two weeks ago https://www.techradar.com/news/live/twitter-outtage-what-happened-when-will-service-be-restored-and-more https://www.techradar.com/news/live/twitter-outtage-what-hap... Or this outage today https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/story/twitter-outage-twitter-down-micro-blogging-site-unable-to-load-posts-2338767-2023-02-23 https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/story/twitter-outage-tw... because that one was brief YOu might be talking about this one https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/14/23215529/twitter-down-outage-error-capacity https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/14/23215529/twitter-down-out... …or maybe this one https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/16/twitter_okays_cannabis_ads/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/16/twitter_okays_cannabi... It’s sort of hard to tell because everything’s working so well and is so fine that there are quite a few outages to choose from.
- hinkley 4y ago
  Each outage will get worse as the skeleton crew burns out. I’m a fan of small focused teams. This ain’t how that happens.
piva00 4y ago
Bots are even more insidious than before, I deleted my account and now only use it to follow breaking news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and I constantly get errors, videos not loading, glitches on the page. Not sure what you mean "running fine", I'm dreading opening Twitter links because it got so frustrating... It's attrition, it's slowly degrading. It's definitely breaking, in my experience.
- Nextgrid 4y ago
  > Bots are even more insidious than before Not sure if that's actually caused by the recent changes as opposed to confirmation bias or merely the renewed attention that Twitter recently got. I wouldn't comment on their moderation being better or worse since the acquisition considering they were already at zero as they couldn't even regex-out very obvious crypto scam tweets in reply to high-profile accounts. > I'm dreading opening Twitter links because it got so frustrating Me too, though that has nothing to do with the acquisition and was just as bad as before - something to do with justifying having dozens/hundreds of frontend engineers so they shipped a monster weighing megabytes to display ~300 characters of text.
  - scrollaway 4y ago
    Twitter shedded a lot of its real users due to the takeover itself and the decisions that ensued. It’s simple maths that there would be more bots now.
astrange 4y ago
The ad quality is pretty majorly degraded since they laid off all the account managers. Not that it was good in the first place. And you can't have SMS 2FA and the employees can't have Slack anymore because they can't afford it.
Moldoteck 4y ago
imo working fine is a stretch and I don't mean outages. This month I've encountered a lot of strange bugs in the app. Sometimes it'll just not load new content, sometimes it's notifying that somebody posted something, but on press, nothing new is shown, strange things related to retweets. I don't really remember so many bugs before musk
ulfw 4y ago
How is it running fine? Did you think the servers would shut themselves off? Of course it's still running. But if you think twitter is running fine you're self selecting news and are ignoring reality.