Twitter was down

Post by random314 » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 6:23 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #250

paxys wrote: post #151

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…

Interesting to me that when Twitter was ascendant the same predictions of doom were not made so frequently when the fail whale was a regular occurrence. It's possible Twitter didn't need to be spending all the money they were to be maintaining five nines or whatever, given the shift in product focus (humans and not a general/universal message bus - bots can't @-mention anymore, etc). Given that they are unprofitable,…

Post by tayo42 » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 6:23 PM UTC

patrickmay wrote: post #221

tayo42 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

twitter is only important if your stuck in the bubble of twitter people. Tons of people dont use twitter, let alone even write on there. to get even like 1000 replies is still an insignificant amount, even though it feels like a lot. there are 300million people in just the US. thinking twitter replies are meaningful or represent enough people to have discourse is disconnected from the real world.

Twitter is useful for following authors and finding out when they have new books. Now I have to seriously consider GoodReads. shudder

Post by tayo42 » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 6:24 PM UTC

Gabriel_Martin wrote: post #199

tayo42 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

twitter is only important if your stuck in the bubble of twitter people. Tons of people dont use twitter, let alone even write on there. to get even like 1000 replies is still an insignificant amount, even though it feels like a lot. there are 300million people in just the US. thinking twitter replies are meaningful or represent enough people to have discourse is disconnected from the real world.

For people who needed visibility and access to a platform it's actually a quite important tool. I'm not talking about the frivolous uses.

Post by random314 » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 6:25 PM UTC

RC_ITR wrote: post #267

sneak wrote: post #250

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Interesting to me that when Twitter was ascendant the same predictions of doom were not made so frequently when the fail whale was a regular occurrence. It's possible Twitter didn't need to be spending all the money they were to be maintaining five nines or whatever, given the shift in product focus (humans and not a general/universal message bus - bots can't @-mention anymore, etc). Given that they are unprofitable,…

> Given that they are unprofitable, if I were a shareholder I would be upset if I did not see experiments being run to see how much cost can be cut and where. Twitter will never get to $44bn market cap again (much less a valuation with a decent IRR) by cutting costs alone. They need to grow way more than they need to cut costs. If any of those experiments lead to less growth (which I’d argue is true of a broken Tweet…

Post by tayo42 » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 6:26 PM UTC

fzeroracer wrote: post #235

tayo42 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

twitter is only important if your stuck in the bubble of twitter people. Tons of people dont use twitter, let alone even write on there. to get even like 1000 replies is still an insignificant amount, even though it feels like a lot. there are 300million people in just the US. thinking twitter replies are meaningful or represent enough people to have discourse is disconnected from the real world.

This is more disconnected from the real world than Twitter, because you're focusing solely on a US-centric viewpoint. There are plenty of other places in the world where Twitter has been a core piece of communication.