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To play devils advocate does Twitter not seem fine now?

• re-thc 3y ago
  > To play devils advocate does Twitter not seem fine now? Fine in what sense? There's less features, less capacity and more outages. They couldn't even hold someone's presidential announcement fine without it breaking. Is that fine? As a business they've gained debt and lost a lot of income. Is that fine? With less income, less ads and less of everything it's a different scale. Something that's fine with 1 million users is not the same as 10 million. I would say it's different - different ownership, different direction etc. Time will tell what the outcome is. Projects have been axed and new 1s will appear. The changing of staff has definitely hurt Twitter. Whether they can recover is a different question.
  • froggit 3y ago
    So... fine as long as you don't compare it to its past self?
• HWR_14 3y ago
  It does not. They have more frequent and longer outages now. Heck, when Musk tried to do a town hall for DeSantis to announce his run, the livestream was buggy specifically because no one had returned one of their vendors phone calls. That's a stupid reason for a major fuckup.
  • thulle 3y ago
    Do you have any source for the part about the vendor? Searching for a bit just gave me a ton of articles about the failed announcement in general.
    • brokenmachine 3y ago
      I read somewhere that it was because they didn't pay a bill to Redis. Maybe throw that in as a search term.