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I detest Musk as much as the next guy (or more, if my history on HN is any proof). I think he's a despicable human being; I would not be caught dead in the gene
by bambax 4y ago
I detest Musk as much as the next guy (or more, if my history on HN is any proof). I think he's a despicable human being; I would not be caught dead in the general vicinity of a Tesla, etc.
That said, for the casual user, Twitter works pretty much the same as it did before he took over. It hasn't crashed durably. Makes one wonder what all those people were doing.
- MisterSandman 4y agoObviously 100% of the engineers weren't just keeping the lights on. The long-term future of Twitter is way more bleak right now than it was a year ago, and that has, in part, to do with the fact that all of the insane engineering talent at Twitter is gone. Twitter has some insane infrastructure, which was way ahead of it's time, and which is arguably why the company is still doing fine.
- bell-cot 4y ago> Makes one wonder what all those people were doing. A "good" social media giant needs huge headcounts in departments like Troll Control. Last I heard, the EU was threatening to sanction or ban Twitter - because the gutted Twitter staff wasn't keeping up with such things.
- bambax 4y agoYes, maybe, but I haven't seen all those supposedly new trolls (and to be fair, I never saw the bots Musk was constantly complaining about before purchase). I think it's possible trolls, spam and "bots" exist in a kind of invisible state: they can be found if one looks for them (what regulators are probably doing) but they never appear on most users' timelines.