Sounds more like bad QA that forgot to test an use case
Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
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#442Earlier quoted context omitted.
The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left. My guess is Elon said "the site's too slow!" Engineers noticed that the home feed request was slow. They didn't understand how it worked, had no tools to profile it, and were given an unrealistic deadline to fix it. So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at leas…
Except, progress grinding to a halt pretty much described Twitter before Elon Musk too. The story that anyone who knew anything was let go is just that, a story, as the number of employees by year shows Twitter, and other tech companies in the same period, overhired and then went back to pre-2020 levels. The only difference between then and now is that there is a big personality at the top who now personifies everyth…
There's definitely a strong element of people here rooting for Twitter to fail because they dislike Elon's politics.
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#443Earlier quoted context omitted.
The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left. My guess is Elon said "the site's too slow!" Engineers noticed that the home feed request was slow. They didn't understand how it worked, had no tools to profile it, and were given an unrealistic deadline to fix it. So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at leas…
Except, progress grinding to a halt pretty much described Twitter before Elon Musk too. The story that anyone who knew anything was let go is just that, a story, as the number of employees by year shows Twitter, and other tech companies in the same period, overhired and then went back to pre-2020 levels. The only difference between then and now is that there is a big personality at the top who now personifies everyth…
Unless you have some information I don’t, Twitter is way below its pre-pandemic staffing levels. Obviously hard to tell exactly how low they went as they’re not public anymore, but this is quite different from Meta and such that really did just go back to pre-pandemic level. CNBC say Twitter is at 1300 people, a drop of 80%. It’s mind boggling.
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#444Earlier quoted context omitted.
That will be the case once H1-Bs are reformed and universal healthcare becomes real. Until then, this is an unrealistic and cruel position.
Fair point. I was only considering the perspective of US citizens. It does make me wonder how much the ratio of forced labor H1B situations has gone up at Twitter as US citizens all bail from the fire. I cannot imagine why anyone would work there if they had a choice at this point.
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Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
#445Earlier quoted context omitted.
The people at Twitter who understood the system and could predict the side effects were all fired or left. My guess is Elon said "the site's too slow!" Engineers noticed that the home feed request was slow. They didn't understand how it worked, had no tools to profile it, and were given an unrealistic deadline to fix it. So about the only thing they could do was issue multiple, parallel requests and hope that at leas…
Except, progress grinding to a halt pretty much described Twitter before Elon Musk too. The story that anyone who knew anything was let go is just that, a story, as the number of employees by year shows Twitter, and other tech companies in the same period, overhired and then went back to pre-2020 levels. The only difference between then and now is that there is a big personality at the top who now personifies everyth…
Name another tech company that lost 80% of its employees.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer...
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#446All Elon had to do was leave it alone and, oh, right, the 44 billion.
Hahahahaha! Man, Parag Agrawal and his team knew exactly what they were doing. A fool and his money are soon parted, indeed.
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#447Threads is about to launch and I have a feeling once that happens twitter will quickly become the next Truth Social.
Only without the main attraction. Always seemed like a weird strategy, that.
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I'm curious about this: When you were experiencing this, why didn't you quit? I truly feel bummed for the people remaining at Twitter who are miserable but for whatever reason feel they can't just quit.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7z5px/twitter-employees-on-...
It's still not forced to work, unless going back to your home country is worse than working at Twitter?
Re: Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
#450Focusing on the technical issue at hand - can anyone tell the exact issue at play? Is this an issue of client retry logic that on a 429 without backoff? Hence, the self-ddos?