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80% of the Twitter workforce was fired. The first month was kind of shaky, but at least from my point of view the platform has been pretty stable. I of course

by Glant 2y ago

80% of the Twitter workforce was fired. The first month was kind of shaky, but at least from my point of view the platform has been pretty stable. I of course can't say for sure, but I imagine most of Automattics products will continue running though maybe with a much lower frequency of updates.

genmud 2y ago
Anecdotally, I'm a near daily user and have noticed the platform has significantly more latency, a massive uptick in spam as well as strange / intermittent bugs.
revendell_elf 2y ago
As a regular Twitter user, I kinda disagree with this perception. Twitter has objectively become slower and more bugs have been introduced as well.
addicted 2y ago
I think it could be boiling frog syndrome. For the last decade I have always signed up for Twitter, used it for a few months, deleted the account and stayed away for months/years and then returned. This is largely because I get addicted to Twitter. My last return to Twitter, a few months ago, was the first time since the firings. And it is awful. Glitches all over the place. Bots all over the place. This is the longest I’ve had a Twitter account because I have absolutely no reason to delete it since I have no desire to use it. Also, I don’t use Twitter for politics at all. It’s almost entirely for sports/tech/science so it’s not a partisan thing. All that being said, I think it’s absolutely true that Twitter could have reduced its workforce somewhat. Like every other tech company they had massively over hired during the pandemic and all of them have had deep layoffs. And Twitter was the poster child of “why does tech company X need so many employees”. But even then the impact of the cuts are very evident to me at least.
- bigfatkitten 2y ago
  > Twitter was the poster child of “why does tech company X need so many employees”. I think Twitter and Reddit share that title. Reddit has something like 2000 employees, yet their platform's availability has never been amazing, and new web UI and the official mobile apps are both unusable. What do they do all day?
csomar 2y ago
Twitter has been anything but stable; though I'd blame most of that on Musk rather than the layoffs.

by Glant 2y ago

genmud 2y ago

Anecdotally, I'm a near daily user and have noticed the platform has significantly more latency, a massive uptick in spam as well as strange / intermittent bugs.

revendell_elf 2y ago

As a regular Twitter user, I kinda disagree with this perception. Twitter has objectively become slower and more bugs have been introduced as well.

addicted 2y ago

I think it could be boiling frog syndrome. For the last decade I have always signed up for Twitter, used it for a few months, deleted the account and stayed away for months/years and then returned. This is largely because I get addicted to Twitter. My last return to Twitter, a few months ago, was the first time since the firings. And it is awful. Glitches all over the place. Bots all over the place. This is the longest I’ve had a Twitter account because I have absolutely no reason to delete it since I have no desire to use it. Also, I don’t use Twitter for politics at all. It’s almost entirely for sports/tech/science so it’s not a partisan thing. All that being said, I think it’s absolutely true that Twitter could have reduced its workforce somewhat. Like every other tech company they had massively over hired during the pandemic and all of them have had deep layoffs. And Twitter was the poster child of “why does tech company X need so many employees”. But even then the impact of the cuts are very evident to me at least.

bigfatkitten 2y ago
> Twitter was the poster child of “why does tech company X need so many employees”. I think Twitter and Reddit share that title. Reddit has something like 2000 employees, yet their platform's availability has never been amazing, and new web UI and the official mobile apps are both unusable. What do they do all day?

csomar 2y ago

Twitter has been anything but stable; though I'd blame most of that on Musk rather than the layoffs.