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Followed swiftly by: "We apologize again for the fault in the service. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked."
When does the møøse arc begin in Twitter's storyline?
Their website is broken for normal users. Try visiting anyone's profile page over the web — you'll get a 467 error [0] e.g. Elon: https://twitter.com/elonmusk
Wow. Glad I'm not putting energy into Twitter any longer.
It's not just tweetdeck. Any clickable t.co URLs (i.e. all URLs embedded in tweets) are broken.
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Where did you land on the bets? It appears that when Twitter goes down, its engineers were indispensable but when it's up, it's because the engineers foresaw this. Given those factors, how long it stays up must be an interesting combination of how indispensable the engineers made themselves vs how much foresight they had.
Exactly right, which is why this whole saga is so irritating to watch. The commentary is heavily biased and its exhausting to filter back to neutral. I just want to know the impact of many engineers leaving
There's really no correlation between layoffs and outages, I suspect.
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I guess if you are on a visa. There are some "office heroes" there for sure, and they will probably realize years later that they were abused.
So they don't realize now they are being abused even though they have first hand experience, but you realize they are being abused because you have what insight exactly? In other words, what exactly do you think the people working there will "realize years later"? Could you specifically list the abuses being done to these engineers that they are unaware of?
There’s a whole swaths of science and research behind this. It’s why domestic violence can continue for years unknown to anyone, even from friends, until it’s not.
OP isn’t saying they’re being abused as a fact, but if they are — at a workplace that seems as objectively toxic as Twitter right now — many who are still there won’t likely realize they were until afterwards.
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> If these systems ever go down, its link rot at scale Only if one's mental model is that t.co links were ever permanent. They're privately-owned obfuscator links. Unless someone in the wild was building a mirror mapping, they were always doomed and never to be trusted; they knocked the "U" right out of the "URL."
It doesn’t matter what my mental model is if I’m trying to follow links posted by someone else.
There were many different hypotheses on the outcome of Elon firing 80%+ of Twitter employees: 1. The site would crash and burn the next day. 2. Nothing would change. All those engineers were anyways just sitting around. 3. There would be no immediate impact (servers can run by themselves after all), but the site would slowly degrade over time as institutional knowledge around maintenance, upkeep and all the various s…
#2 is what hardcore Elon fans said.
#3 was always the most likely prediction and is what any actual tech engineer should have said.