Probably a good time to download an archive of your Twitter data: https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data
Everyone hitting this today is the equivalent of a run on a bank and actually kill it.
Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended
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#152Per her most recent tweet:
https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593427480051822592?c...
"NEW: The designers leading Elon Musk’s Blue verified project are out, along with the lead web engineer. Many Twitter employees who maintained critical infrastructure have resigned. This is going to look like a very different company tomorrow."
The snowball has gained too much momentum now. Especially with Thanksgiving coming, I don't see how Twitter is realistically going to keep the lights on, quite literally.
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#153The next outage will have a good likelihood of being the last outage.
Yeah. Multiple entire teams that run critical systems have reportedly left. It’s over. Dead site running. Such a horrible loss. Glad the stockholders are happy. This was clearly better than the lawsuit. /s
The shareholders got paid; this isn’t their circus anymore.
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#154Regardless of your feelings about Elon Musk as a person, this kind of behavior is absolutely crazy for the leader of a company. I can't imagine what investors who signed on to do this with him are thinking unless their goal was to simply destroy the company.
Agree. Mostly I feel for the people working at a place that chaotic. Life is hard enough for many, no need for an eratic, eccentric billionaire with a short fuse to make things even more complicated.
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#155Here's hoping twitter is seized as a public asset before it collapses! Probably won't be, but I can dream. (Its not like it would affect how much data the govt gets from the platform anyhow)
Still putting my hope into Blue Sky/AT. I want to believe.
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#156Huh? Right after Musk ordered everyone to return to the office?
OK, so everybody takes Friday off and comes back Monday. Then what?
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#157>Hundreds upon hundreds of Twitter employees have technically resigned but still have access to Twitter’s internal systems, with some speculating it is because the employees tasked with managing that access also resigned.
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is a little strange that I have seen almost no Twitter stories on the front page in the last week. Has dang or anyone talked about why that might be? Is it getting caught in the flamewar algorithm? Are they treating this as one big story so any individual article gets removed as a repost?
> Has dang or anyone talked about why that might be? I’ve personally been visiting new and flagging all Twitter/mastodon posts I see (i started doing this after getting sick of all the Twitter/mastodon posts hitting the front page). I don’t want the front page to be all Twitter all the time, and most of the posts boil down to speculation and gossip and the ones that don’t, usually don’t offer anything meaningfully ne…
Speculation and gossip are annoying, but the actual things that are happening (and there are a lot of them) are worth keeping.
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#159Is there precedent anyone can point to where these sorts of wild dramatic moves under new leadership led to turning a large company around into success?
What is wild? Musk has said for a long time Twitter needs 75% less staff. What did you expect firing that many people to look like?
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#160Twitter isn't going anywhere because of two critical facts: a) attention whores and rage/doom scroll addicts b) Those people can easily find each other and talk to each other. Mastodon and Activitypub decentralize which means it is a lot harder to proverbialy whore yourself to the attention of the masses and and those attention whores (politicians, journalists,etc... not just celebrities and influencers) can't have t…
All of this is predicated on Twitter remaining accessible, or existing at all, in the medium to long term which is seeming increasingly less likely.