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he fired a huge number of the staff and the site is still running, so how was that assumption not proven correct ?

lokar 3y ago
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smith7018 3y ago
I use twitter daily and the site is a shell of its former self. It's slow, prone to bugs, filled with bots, the amount of real users has cratered, user reports go nowhere, there's no support team, the ads are now bot accounts posting crap like "Today is a good day, be sure to make it advantageous", there are no new features besides previously in-flight projects pre-Musk, they've actually removed a lot of features (like Circles, block lists, etc), and much more. He took an otherwise functioning social media service and forced it into maintenance mode. He also fired all of the people that keep the user base alive so now it's flooded with bots (which he presumably likes so he can boast about engagement being up). So yes it's still around but it's dying and the skeleton crew he has left can't do anything. In other words, he destroyed it.
- mschuster91 3y ago
  The bot plague is atrocious. Like, there are tons of "keyword watcher" bots... write "onlyfans" and you'll get ~5-10 spambots in under half a minute, and for stuff involving popular politicians or political events (anything Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, Covid) you'll get Russian fake newspaper clones. On top of that come the "human bots" - write the name of infamous German youtuber "Drachenlord" and you'll get that vile hater bunch and it's just the same.
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- deprecative 3y ago
  Honest question, why on earth are you on a fascist social media platform?
  - smith7018 3y ago
    Honest answer: it's where my friend group's group chat lives. I miss a lot of conversation if I'm not in it. To be fair, I've blocked 235k+ Blue accounts so my experience is actually a lot better than most users.
sandofsky 3y ago
The site was previously engineered such that an uninformed owner could literally start unplugging servers without it going down. That said, outage frequency did rise following the mass layoffs. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/technology/twitter-outages-elon-musk.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/technology/twitter-outage...
sangnoir 3y ago
> he fired a huge number of the staff and the site is still running, so how was that assumption not proven correct ? Why would you expect the website to stop running though? Keeping a site running with a smaller crew is easy amd baked in - all organizations with >10 engineers do this frequently, over the holidays or Lunar New year. What's harder is building new features at the same pace and quality as a larger engineering team.

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I use twitter daily and the site is a shell of its former self. It's slow, prone to bugs, filled with bots, the amount of real users has cratered, user reports go nowhere, there's no support team, the ads are now bot accounts posting crap like "Today is a good day, be sure to make it advantageous", there are no new features besides previously in-flight projects pre-Musk, they've actually removed a lot of features (like Circles, block lists, etc), and much more. He took an otherwise functioning social media service and forced it into maintenance mode. He also fired all of the people that keep the user base alive so now it's flooded with bots (which he presumably likes so he can boast about engagement being up). So yes it's still around but it's dying and the skeleton crew he has left can't do anything. In other words, he destroyed it.

mschuster91 3y ago
The bot plague is atrocious. Like, there are tons of "keyword watcher" bots... write "onlyfans" and you'll get ~5-10 spambots in under half a minute, and for stuff involving popular politicians or political events (anything Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, Covid) you'll get Russian fake newspaper clones. On top of that come the "human bots" - write the name of infamous German youtuber "Drachenlord" and you'll get that vile hater bunch and it's just the same.
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deprecative 3y ago
Honest question, why on earth are you on a fascist social media platform?
- smith7018 3y ago
  Honest answer: it's where my friend group's group chat lives. I miss a lot of conversation if I'm not in it. To be fair, I've blocked 235k+ Blue accounts so my experience is actually a lot better than most users.

sandofsky 3y ago

The site was previously engineered such that an uninformed owner could literally start unplugging servers without it going down. That said, outage frequency did rise following the mass layoffs. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/technology/twitter-outages-elon-musk.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/technology/twitter-outage...

sangnoir 3y ago

> he fired a huge number of the staff and the site is still running, so how was that assumption not proven correct ? Why would you expect the website to stop running though? Keeping a site running with a smaller crew is easy amd baked in - all organizations with >10 engineers do this frequently, over the holidays or Lunar New year. What's harder is building new features at the same pace and quality as a larger engineering team.