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You do know that you can block Elon's account.
If you have to block the account of the CEO of the service you are using, perhaps you should just stop using that service?
I don't think it will fail on a technical level. As this article says lots of engineering has gone in to make the thing pretty resilient. I would also say that there are still enough engineers who work there who can figure out what's gone wrong and "turn it on and off again" or w/e makes it splutter back to life. In terms of changes to the Platform ditto. It's not difficult to make these changes that a team of 100's…
The fact that he was able to "buy" Twitter and yet transfer a significant amount of debt to the company rather than being liable himself is just another sign of how different "rich people accounting" is. He will walk away from this with a bit less theoretical money but no material impact to his life, while thousands of people are having their lives up-ended. How long are we going to keep letting shit like this happen…
I don't think it will fail on a technical level. As this article says lots of engineering has gone in to make the thing pretty resilient. I would also say that there are still enough engineers who work there who can figure out what's gone wrong and "turn it on and off again" or w/e makes it splutter back to life. In terms of changes to the Platform ditto. It's not difficult to make these changes that a team of 100's…
I’m not an expert in math but it’s seems pretty possible.
Plus they’ll have a lot more impressions to sell now that people are allowed to speak. Ad rates might drop but then someone will write an article about how they are getting great CPC on Twitter and everything will be back to normal after the blue checks have their sob fest.
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Because politics and ideologues are so prevalent and everyone's attaching 'the other' (both sides) for the own. And of course people in 'important' roles who've been laid off are going to say the company is doomed, these are the probably the worst source to go off. They're not going to say "oh yeah I didn't do much at all really, just bossed people around and spent my budget every year."
It's actually scary how many people, even engineers, put their reputation on the line saying Twitter wouldn't survive the weekend. It wasn't just Twitter employees. It's like a mass psychosis of some kind. It comes off as a kind of desperation, as though they need Elon to fail. Why? What's driving that response?
The only prediction anyone made was that the World Cup was historically a period of very high load, so if something was going to go wrong soon, the weekend would be the first vulnerable time, and the World Cup finals will be the next.
> This left a lot wondering what exactly was going on with all those engineers and made it seem like it was all just bloat. I was partly expecting the rest of the article to explain to me why exactly it wasn't just bloat. But it goes on talking about this 1~3-person cache SRE team that built solid infra automation that's really resilient to both hardware and software failures. If anything, the article might actually…
The article makes a point that the reason Twitter is running ok on 20% of personnel at this moment is exactly because it was build to be resilient, not because the personnel was bloated. A large part of this so called bloat, the 80%, was responsible for Twitter to be running right now. Calling this bloat implies it is actually not important for Twitter to be available all the time (or at all).
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I think this is kind of baked in though. Part of the thought process seems to be, at least for non-paying customers, it's not actually necessary to have five nines for Twitter, because people will just put up with it if it's less reliable.
I don’t have personal experience in this, so obviously I can’t speak with any authority. But I have heard from colleagues that tons of little factors can dramatically affect user engagement. For example, even a couple dozen milliseconds of longer load times can push a noticeable number of users away from your app.
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> I mean wholly crap, this reminds me of old German industry where people retire in the place they started. German here. I think this actually is a huge part of the success of the famous Mittelstand - all that institutional knowledge these people have is extremely valuable. It's not just basic stuff like "know time tracking, billing and other admin systems and internal processes", but also the stuff that really can s…
> the problem is US-centric capitalism cannot quantify that impact (and it doesn't want to, given that attrition-related problems are long-term issues with years of time to impact) This is false. People invest on many year horizons all of the time when they believe in the company. If there was good evidence that having an average tenure of 5+ years was a great boost to the company, people would clamor to invest in co…
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> the article might actually persuade me that it was all bloat First of all, how does it persuade you of that? The article touches a really small (though incredibly important for up-time) subject. Secondly, in any large company, the majority is 'bloat'. It's security engineers, code reviews, data architecture, HR, internal audit teams, content moderators, ccrum masters and I can keep going. In a start-up many of thes…
How difficult can a platform like Twitter be? I am convinced you can run the entire tech stack with a team of a 100 people.
I don't think it will fail on a technical level. As this article says lots of engineering has gone in to make the thing pretty resilient. I would also say that there are still enough engineers who work there who can figure out what's gone wrong and "turn it on and off again" or w/e makes it splutter back to life. In terms of changes to the Platform ditto. It's not difficult to make these changes that a team of 100's…
The fact that he was able to "buy" Twitter and yet transfer a significant amount of debt to the company rather than being liable himself is just another sign of how different "rich people accounting" is. He will walk away from this with a bit less theoretical money but no material impact to his life, while thousands of people are having their lives up-ended. How long are we going to keep letting shit like this happen…
But apparently I'm not a rich person so that kind of accounting doesn't apply to me.
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You know, I think Musk is an ass, and would never work for him, but don't you think that someone who has managed to launch and then run many successful and complex technology projects might actually know a thing or two about launching and running simpler technology projects? And if you're going to claim that his successes have been due to the people surrounding him who actually know what they are doing, then all that…
Well, I think the issue is precisely considering Twitter a "simple technology project", and it's the same mistake that Musk does. Twitter isn't a "software and servers business" as he said. Twitter is a social community, and while in some regards it might be easier, it's also far more difficult in others. Just compare how many business and institutions can reliably launch rockets or create cars, and how many can reli…
But I didn't call it "simple", I called it "simpler", and it is.