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I have noticed absolutely no difference with Twitter/X. I am a casual user, sure, but for me it seems to work well.

andrewinardeer 3y ago
There was a bit of downtime and some bugs did make it into their prod env after the restructure. These bugs were rectified fairly quickly too. I generally agree with you on your comment. I am a casual user of X these days and the site seems to be humming along without any user facing engineering issues. With his products such as Tesla, X and Starlink touching millions of people daily Elon is an easy to reach punching bag. Even if he is somehow instrumental in solving the massive feat of putting humans safely on Mars there will always be people on the side lines having shots at him.
rpastuszak 3y ago
Anecdata for sure, but I use Twitter every day and features such as video upload just stopped working for me (failing silently), not to mention the site crashing or becoming completely unresponsive every week or so.
- Marazan 3y ago
  The entire multi-media infrastructure at Twitter is visibly creaking.
majani 3y ago
Funny enough, where I've noticed the most bugs is in the ad buying process. They want an active account (which many corporate accounts wouldn't qualify as), then they want you to be a Twitter Blue member(which requires a verified phone number), then my company's phone number wasn't accepted. I gave up after that
iLoveOncall 3y ago
I'm not even a casual user, I just go there when a friend sends me a funny tweet or an article point to one, and even I have noticed major bugs like comments not loading or other functionalities not working.
- NavinF 3y ago
  That's not a bug. If you're not logged in or your account looks like a bot, you can't see comments
  - anonzzzies 3y ago
    > your account looks like a bot That's not a bot if you are not a bot? I know it's 'normal', but I still it as a bug. AI classifying me as something I not is a bug.
    - NavinF 3y ago
      Depends on the account. Eg if you look at unfiltered YouTube comments on youtube studio, you'll find many humans that behave like bots and post link to their videos in unrelated discussions
    - egman_ekki 3y ago
      That’s exactly what a bot would say.
      - anonzzzies 3y ago
        Doesn’t make blocking innocent accounts automatically less of a bug.
Marazan 3y ago
Media loading is dog slow these days. 10+ second waits for images in tweets to load. That's the most directly obvious thing that has happened post takeover.
renegade-otter 3y ago
We don't know how that relates to the traffic. If the load caved, you need less capacity to handle it. The DeSantis launch campaign was a complete disaster, and only recovered mid-stream when 2/3 of the users left. There is a case to be made that Twitter would have been profitable if it didn't torch money on unnecessary complexity, but the crashing ad revenue suggests Musk is not the business genius that you might expect.

There was a bit of downtime and some bugs did make it into their prod env after the restructure. These bugs were rectified fairly quickly too. I generally agree with you on your comment. I am a casual user of X these days and the site seems to be humming along without any user facing engineering issues. With his products such as Tesla, X and Starlink touching millions of people daily Elon is an easy to reach punching bag. Even if he is somehow instrumental in solving the massive feat of putting humans safely on Mars there will always be people on the side lines having shots at him.

rpastuszak 3y ago

Anecdata for sure, but I use Twitter every day and features such as video upload just stopped working for me (failing silently), not to mention the site crashing or becoming completely unresponsive every week or so.

Marazan 3y ago
The entire multi-media infrastructure at Twitter is visibly creaking.

majani 3y ago

Funny enough, where I've noticed the most bugs is in the ad buying process. They want an active account (which many corporate accounts wouldn't qualify as), then they want you to be a Twitter Blue member(which requires a verified phone number), then my company's phone number wasn't accepted. I gave up after that

iLoveOncall 3y ago

I'm not even a casual user, I just go there when a friend sends me a funny tweet or an article point to one, and even I have noticed major bugs like comments not loading or other functionalities not working.

NavinF 3y ago
That's not a bug. If you're not logged in or your account looks like a bot, you can't see comments
- anonzzzies 3y ago
  > your account looks like a bot That's not a bot if you are not a bot? I know it's 'normal', but I still it as a bug. AI classifying me as something I not is a bug.
  - NavinF 3y ago
    Depends on the account. Eg if you look at unfiltered YouTube comments on youtube studio, you'll find many humans that behave like bots and post link to their videos in unrelated discussions
  - egman_ekki 3y ago
    That’s exactly what a bot would say.
    - anonzzzies 3y ago
      Doesn’t make blocking innocent accounts automatically less of a bug.

Marazan 3y ago

Media loading is dog slow these days. 10+ second waits for images in tweets to load. That's the most directly obvious thing that has happened post takeover.

renegade-otter 3y ago

We don't know how that relates to the traffic. If the load caved, you need less capacity to handle it. The DeSantis launch campaign was a complete disaster, and only recovered mid-stream when 2/3 of the users left. There is a case to be made that Twitter would have been profitable if it didn't torch money on unnecessary complexity, but the crashing ad revenue suggests Musk is not the business genius that you might expect.