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>>companies aren’t investing in junior developers It was a case before AI as well. Overall it reads the same as "Twitter will be destroyed by mass layoffs". B

>>companies aren’t investing in junior developers It was a case before AI as well. Overall it reads the same as "Twitter will be destroyed by mass layoffs". But it is still online

vanderZwan 2y ago
"Destroyed" is not the same as "annihilated from exhistence". Twitter is a shell of its former self.
tobyhinloopen 2y ago
Twitter is, in fact, not online. It redirects to something called X, which is not Twitter.
- qwertox 2y ago
  Yet there is this: <a href="https://twitter.com/tos">Terms of Service</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/privacy">Privacy Policy</a> <a href="https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514">Cookie Policy</a> <a href="https://legal.twitter.com/imprint.html">Imprint</a>
- lxgr 2y ago
  One would hope that hackers understand the distinction between name and referent.
adamors 2y ago
Twitter is essentially losing money even with a bare bones staff https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351317/elon-musk-x-twitter-bank-debt-stagnant-growth https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351317/elon-musk-x-twit... It's being kept online because it's a good propaganda tool, not due to how it performs on the free market.
- Zealotux 2y ago
  It's not related to engineering issues but rather the ideological shift and the fact that it became a blatant propaganda machine for its new overlord.
  - Macha 2y ago
    Ehh, as a propaganda tool it would be more useful to not have a hard login wall, which was allegedly implemented due to engineering challenges continuing to operate Twitter at its former scale. So the engineering issues are even limiting its new goals.
- bloomingkales 2y ago
  It's arguably depreciating in value faster than a new car. One of Elmo's worst judgement calls (and that's saying a lot). Altman jabbed at Elmo and offered 9billion for X, 1/4th the price Elmo paid. It's kind of hilarious watching the piranhas go at each other: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-reportedly-offers-974-billion-for-openai-sam-altman-says-no-thank-you-215634193.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-reportedly-offers-9...
  - gilbetron 2y ago
    It arguably got him to be effectively an unelected President (at least for now), the investment has largely paid off scarily. For twitter as a business? Awful.
- hbn 2y ago
  "Is a good propaganda tool" doesn't keep a website up, engineers do. It's losing money because a bunch of major advertisers pulled out, not because there's not enough engineers to keep it online. I use it daily and can't remember the last outage.
ahiknsr 2y ago
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frag 2y ago
and we also see with what consequences
kklisura 2y ago
"it is still online" is pretty high bar. The systems is riddled with bugs that are not being addressed for months now and the amount of spam and bots is even larger than before.
Draiken 2y ago
Being privately owned by a man with near infinite resources means it can stay online however long its owner wants, whether it's successful or not.

>>companies aren’t investing in junior developers It was a case before AI as well. Overall it reads the same as "Twitter will be destroyed by mass layoffs". But it is still online

vanderZwan 2y ago

"Destroyed" is not the same as "annihilated from exhistence". Twitter is a shell of its former self.

tobyhinloopen 2y ago

Twitter is, in fact, not online. It redirects to something called X, which is not Twitter.

qwertox 2y ago
Yet there is this: <a href="https://twitter.com/tos">Terms of Service</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/privacy">Privacy Policy</a> <a href="https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514">Cookie Policy</a> <a href="https://legal.twitter.com/imprint.html">Imprint</a>
lxgr 2y ago
One would hope that hackers understand the distinction between name and referent.

adamors 2y ago

Twitter is essentially losing money even with a bare bones staff https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351317/elon-musk-x-twitter-bank-debt-stagnant-growth https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351317/elon-musk-x-twit... It's being kept online because it's a good propaganda tool, not due to how it performs on the free market.

Zealotux 2y ago
It's not related to engineering issues but rather the ideological shift and the fact that it became a blatant propaganda machine for its new overlord.
- Macha 2y ago
  Ehh, as a propaganda tool it would be more useful to not have a hard login wall, which was allegedly implemented due to engineering challenges continuing to operate Twitter at its former scale. So the engineering issues are even limiting its new goals.
bloomingkales 2y ago
It's arguably depreciating in value faster than a new car. One of Elmo's worst judgement calls (and that's saying a lot). Altman jabbed at Elmo and offered 9billion for X, 1/4th the price Elmo paid. It's kind of hilarious watching the piranhas go at each other: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-reportedly-offers-974-billion-for-openai-sam-altman-says-no-thank-you-215634193.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-reportedly-offers-9...
- gilbetron 2y ago
  It arguably got him to be effectively an unelected President (at least for now), the investment has largely paid off scarily. For twitter as a business? Awful.
hbn 2y ago
"Is a good propaganda tool" doesn't keep a website up, engineers do. It's losing money because a bunch of major advertisers pulled out, not because there's not enough engineers to keep it online. I use it daily and can't remember the last outage.

ahiknsr 2y ago

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frag 2y ago

and we also see with what consequences

kklisura 2y ago

"it is still online" is pretty high bar. The systems is riddled with bugs that are not being addressed for months now and the amount of spam and bots is even larger than before.

Draiken 2y ago

Being privately owned by a man with near infinite resources means it can stay online however long its owner wants, whether it's successful or not.