Musk & Twitter
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@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@Frank 7500 employees at the moment, safe to say there is some deadwood in there. Especially as they removed rest days from the calendar today. Non pto rest days!
Sackings taking place right now apparently.
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@Victor-Meldrew yep, the number of purple haired avatar goodbye messages on Twitter is giving me a headache.
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Twitter is a bit of a mess now that people are paying for verification. Elon should really have seen this coming. If you click on the blue tick it tells you whether they are verified the old way or because they are paying the subscription, but that won't be obvious to alot of people.
Some examples here, but there's absolutely loads off them around now, lots of cleanup to do
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@No-Quarter If his plan is to have s230 amended, this would be an excellent way to do it. But I don't think he's that clever.
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My twitter experience has not changed, which means that quality rough and tumble stuff is never coming back.
This stuff isn't coming back:
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@TeWaio said in Musk & Twitter:
Musk looks to have played a blinder here. Fired 7950, kept 50, platform still works. Tech company jobs really must be "daycare for adults"
Interesting take.
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Twitter have 300 million monthly active users, Whatsapp have 1 billion and have 55 engineers.
He's redirecting the company to be software driven, and add features to become an "everything" app like WeChat with payments, video content, etc.
So all he's done is refocused on the people that will achieve that vision, and cut loose the fat. Also note that they are hiring new people now, so this is also cutting out activist employees.
He's also directed Twitter to solve some serious problems, see this article. Shameful it wasn't implemented earlier;
"A few weeks after Elon Musk became CEO and owner of Twitter, the easy reporting system I recommended was quietly implemented. Shortly afterward, I noticed large amounts of child sexual abuse material being removed from popular hashtags used to sell and exchange child sexual abuse material.
In a subsequent tweet, Musk named it "Priority #1."
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is there anywhere to see if people are using it less than they use too? curious is people are leaving like they said they would of it it was all talk
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I understand numbers have actually increased since Musk took over. All the crap about how Twitter is going to crash was so ridiculous, and written by people that obviously don't know the first thing about tech, they just hate Musk and want him to fail. Cutting out the fat of tech departments is probably a worthwhile exercise for a lot of companies, there are so many talkers and so few doers these days in the world of Agile.
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Like a tweet I saw that went viral among lefties and "anti-Muskers" that reckoned a key reason it was going to crash was "a random HDD will fill up because nobody is watching it", and it would be catastrophic. Like yeah, sometimes directories get full and cause issues, but they are the easiest of incidents to fix, and the easiest to prevent repeats of. Just absurd nonsense.
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@TeWaio said in Musk & Twitter:
Musk looks to have played a blinder here. Fired 7950, kept 50, platform still works. Tech company jobs really must be "daycare for adults"
There's a bit of that - particularly UX designers of whom nobody needs more than a couple and marketing people who aren't required at all
But the systems that run the platform are designed to be fairly robust, and only need people to intervene when something goes wrong.
Security in terms of platform uptime, as well as the content moderation, is probably where the meat of the issue lies.
Any enhancements to code or maintaining libraries that get updated etc. is probably where the critical stuff happens.
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@No-Quarter said in Musk & Twitter:
Like a tweet I saw that went viral among lefties and "anti-Muskers" that reckoned a key reason it was going to crash was "a random HDD will fill up because nobody is watching it", and it would be catastrophic. Like yeah, sometimes directories get full and cause issues, but they are the easiest of incidents to fix, and the easiest to prevent repeats of. Just absurd nonsense.
Those people think large entities run their operations like a home user. Ignorance personified - literally no concept of scaled storage.
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@No-Quarter said in Musk & Twitter:
I understand numbers have actually increased since Musk took over. All the crap about how Twitter is going to crash was so ridiculous, and written by people that obviously don't know the first thing about tech, they just hate Musk and want him to fail. Cutting out the fat of tech departments is probably a worthwhile exercise for a lot of companies, there are so many talkers and so few doers these days in the world of Agile.
Record usuage, record logged in users, handling the World Cup load fine (20,000 tweets per second).
The risk at the moment is they do appear to be changing alot, so the engineers that remain have to be good.
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@NTA said in Musk & Twitter:
@TeWaio said in Musk & Twitter:
Musk looks to have played a blinder here. Fired 7950, kept 50, platform still works. Tech company jobs really must be "daycare for adults"
There's a bit of that - particularly UX designers of whom nobody needs more than a couple and marketing people who aren't required at all
But the systems that run the platform are designed to be fairly robust, and only need people to intervene when something goes wrong.
Security in terms of platform uptime, as well as the content moderation, is probably where the meat of the issue lies.
Any enhancements to code or maintaining libraries that get updated etc. is probably where the critical stuff happens.
Twitter has also laid off less than Meta (11,000) and many other tech companies over the past few weeks. There are significant layoffs going on at the moment in the tech industry.
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@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
Twitter has also laid off less than Meta (11,000) and many other tech companies over the past few weeks. There are significant layoffs going on at the moment in the tech industry.
Meta had 10 times the number of employees tho, so not exactly apples with apples.