Twitter

[ZedLeg]

Don’t know if it’s coincidental but there’s been a sharp rise in the amount of porn bots going around. I’ve had a couple trying to follow me a day this week. Would hardly get any before.

[tim]

Yeah I've had that as well but it's been happening pretty consistently for longer than SpaceMan has been in charge. I think I followed some middle-aged filth so I put it down to follower harvesting from that.

[Beany]

For someone who cares its not hard to just make another account is it

Which tells you how much I actually care, beyond the opportunity for some surface level hyperbole

[Simon]

Musk is proving that he really doesn't have a clue.

First he sacks 50% of the employees.
Then he says he's turning off tonnes of microservices without any clue what they do
Then he asks people to sign a 'hardcore' contract/declaration or leave. So another 75% is his remaining staff leave, including all of payroll, tax compliance teams etc.
Fires key engineers who had the gall to disagree with him on Twitter, then had to hire them back 12 hours later when he realises they know what they're talking about and Musk doesn't.
Then Twitter literally starts to malfunction because key services, functions and people have left.
Now he's asking anyone who can code to turn up at an important meeting, emailing 'proof' or their coding to him in advance, as if he's some kind of arbiter of good coding.
Now finally he's actually asking what all the different parts of Twitter actually do, which is the first thing he should done when buying the business.

What a clown. I've never seen such a clusterfuck.

[Gavster]

This made me lol. "The Spaceman..."

It’s mind blowing how bloated the company must have been. Guessing this guy probably worked at Twitter

[DaveE]

Don’t know if it’s coincidental but there’s been a sharp rise in the amount of porn bots going around. I’ve had a couple trying to follow me a day this week. Would hardly get any before.

Not sure if you see this as a good or bad thing?

[DeskJockey]

Musk is proving that he really doesn't have a clue.

First he sacks 50% of the employees.
Then he says he's turning off tonnes of microservices without any clue what they do
Then he asks people to sign a 'hardcore' contract/declaration or leave. So another 75% is his remaining staff leave, including all of payroll, tax compliance teams etc.
Fires key engineers who had the gall to disagree with him on Twitter, then had to hire them back 12 hours later when he realises they know what they're talking about and Musk doesn't.
Then Twitter literally starts to malfunction because key services, functions and people have left.
Now he's asking anyone who can code to turn up at an important meeting, emailing 'proof' or their coding to him in advance, as if he's some kind of arbiter of good coding.
Now finally he's actually asking what all the different parts of Twitter actually do, which is the first thing he should done when buying the business.

What a clown. I've never seen such a clusterfuck.

Add to that that he's exposed them to massive regulatory risk as they're no longer compliant with GDPR, opening the door to all the European regulators coming after them, not just the Irish (as has been the case so far).

[ZedLeg]

Incredibly smart business man

[Mito Man]

Twitter is absolutely shit to use now. I get one advert every 5 tweets and every video is preceded by an ad which just makes me not bother.

[Gavster]

Peterson, Tate, Trump and Ye have been unbanned from Twitter. Which is fair enough, they've never been the most dangerous people on the platform.

Also appears to have done some good work around child abuse sharing

[tim]

Twitter is absolutely shit to use now. I get one advert every 5 tweets and every video is preceded by an ad which just makes me not bother.

How? I cannot find one single difference to "before".

[ZedLeg]

I wonder if Musk is panicking about the Tesla share price yet

[Jobbo]

Twitter is absolutely shit to use now. I get one advert every 5 tweets and every video is preceded by an ad which just makes me not bother.

How? I cannot find one single difference to "before".

I never expected it to be terribly different. I'm just expecting it to stop working at some point; it won't be a gradual decline - there will be some sort of event which is the straw that breaks the camel's back.

[Beany]

I expect it'll be more of a death by 1000 cuts - functions will stop working properly (inline reply sorting, quote tweets, more 2FA issues) and eventually advertisement reventue would drop to the extent where they can't afford to prop up the infrastructure well enough, and the Fail Whale will start to return in earnest.

That said if they focus their limited staff on backend stuff, but ignore regulatory compliance, they might just get shut down for data breaches etc

So many exciting possibilities.

[Jobbo]

I expect it'll be more of a death by 1000 cuts

That's how I see it - but all below the surface, so it may just stop working at some point with an unfixable issue. I'm sure Tim knows enough about IT not to expect it to look terribly different even if there's a lot going on behind the scenes.

[mik]

I seem to be a bit late to the party on this one, but someone has some automation skills, or a lot of patience

[DaveE]

I expect it'll be more of a death by 1000 cuts

That's how I see it - but all below the surface, so it may just stop working at some point with an unfixable issue. I'm sure Tim knows enough about IT not to expect it to look terribly different even if there's a lot going on behind the scenes.

I think it's quite rare/I can't think of an example of a large software system actually stopping working due to an accumulation of smaller issues

There are catastrophic failures (outages of key parts of the system, or like the infamous TSB migration outage) where the whole thing goes down - but these are usually relatively quickly repaired

That's not to say Twitter won't become unusable due to a cumulative effect of numerous bugs, annoyances etc - but that's more about personal choice

It's the difference between not wanting to use something, or not being able to

Having said, there's a first time for everything, so maybe this could be the first time (to my knowledge) that a huge, global software system gradually crumbles and stops working...

[drcarlos]

I expect it'll be more of a death by 1000 cuts

That's how I see it - but all below the surface, so it may just stop working at some point with an unfixable issue. I'm sure Tim knows enough about IT not to expect it to look terribly different even if there's a lot going on behind the scenes.

There was a whistleblower that reported on their issues with Cyber security in their server estate several months ago. I would not surprise me if something happened along these lines.

https://theconversation.com/did-twitter ... lon%20Musk.

[drcarlos]

Also appears to have done some good work around child abuse sharing

I heard this today too, probably one of the best things they've done since the takeover and very disturbing that given it's gravity and harm that it wasn't done before.

[Jobbo]

I expect it'll be more of a death by 1000 cuts

That's how I see it - but all below the surface, so it may just stop working at some point with an unfixable issue. I'm sure Tim knows enough about IT not to expect it to look terribly different even if there's a lot going on behind the scenes.

I think it's quite rare/I can't think of an example of a large software system actually stopping working due to an accumulation of smaller issues

That's not what I said - lots of small issues but at some point one will be unfixable.