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They fired half their employees and I just checked the Twitter app and it loaded fine. I guess it still works!
by seibelj 4y ago
They fired half their employees and I just checked the Twitter app and it loaded fine. I guess it still works!
- admax88qqq 4y ago... I too test the happy path once and assume there's no problems.
- icedchai 4y agoI assume he was smart enough to keep the operations staff (SREs, etc.)
- acdha 4y agoThis Musk, never make assumptions like that: https://twitter.com/jredmond/status/1588675418064039937 https://twitter.com/jredmond/status/1588675418064039937 A couple of former Twitter people I know have made similar comments hearing that plenty of good ops people were cut. That sounds like the usual PE death cycle getting started: they’re not critical to daily operations so things are fine and you can say “look, I’m a smart manager” until something breaks. After a while, customers get tired of declining service and the process accelerates.
- seydor 4y agoIt's on Autopilot
- seibelj 4y agoI guess the legendary amount of innovation Twitter has been known for will be reduced
- omgwtfbyobbq 4y agoThings will likely work less well in various ways.
- luckylion 4y agoThe sign-in-or-sign-up nag screen has already stopped appearing as quickly, the end is nigh.
- edgyquant 4y agoI’m betting on the opposite. If it doesn’t completely fail just trying anything is likely an improvement. I’ve never spoken to anyone who liked Twitter. It’s always just a means to an ends
- systemicdanna 4y agoAgreed. He probably didn’t let go many infra people. If some product teams were reduced in size and will become slower at butchering the UI, the user will only benefit.
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- yumraj 4y agooh so that's what the Tesla engineers were doing there. Migrating Twitter to run on Autopilot. Makes sense. No wonder 50% of innocent pedestrians are being trampled.
- Wowfunhappy 4y agoI'm honestly curious whether the site will manage to stay running over the next few weeks / months.
- anony23 4y agoI doubt Twitter takes 3500 infra engineers to keep online.
- this_user 4y agoReddit has a similar number of MAU and 1/10 the number of staff Twitter had. And I don't think their tech stack is all that spectacular, probably worse than Twitter's. Yet, their site runs just fine.
- postingawayonhn 4y agoReddit does go down quite frequently.
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- tptacek 4y agoThe fact that Twitter just raptured away 50%+ of their workforce and things are still running mostly the way they did before indicates, to me at least, that Twitter must have been one of the better-run engineering orgs on the planet.
- systemicdanna 4y agoDid you expect it to crash the second people were let go? It’s not like they power Twitter servers with power-generating bicycles.
- tptacek 4y agoIt is already more aerodynamically stable than I expected it to be.
- edgyquant 4y agoI would hope that their production deployments are fairly stable. If the app was crashing and riddled with known bugs at this point they’d be one of the worst run.
- nmeofthestate 4y agoI wonder how many redundancies are for technical roles and how many are for non technical roles (the "political/editorial wing" of the company such as the "curation team", the "human rights" team).