hobbesmaster posted:

the corporate equivalent of typing “rm -rf /“ and trying to use the system as it goes down

jemand posted:

worst case scenario he deletes all the stuff required for monetization. Best case twitter goes offline.

mrmcd posted:

I don't know which is funnier: That he's going around ordering SREs to shoot parts of production infra in the head, or that he's just outright lying and posting technical terms he saw one to look smart.

Malloc Voidstar posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592177471654604800
if you still need to export your twitter account backup, "immediately" might be a good time to do so

njsykora posted:

the weekend ended and everyone at twitter is scrambling to make up for lost humiliation time

Main Paineframe posted:

the absolute funniest part is actual current Twitter engineers openly slamming these moves on Twitter in between job applications

https://twitter.com/nickrw/status/1592187240905867265

the CEO of a company getting into Twitter feuds with current employees is amazing to see

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1592189767168692225

YEEER FIIIIIRED

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1592189767168692225

YEEER FIIIIIRED

rotor posted:

i mean if you dont care about ad revenue - which musk clearly does not - twitter gets a lot simpler internally and you can 100% turn off a lot of poo poo.

Luigi Thirty posted:

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1592189767168692225

YEEER FIIIIIRED

Lain Iwakura posted:

what a level-headed individual who surely will respond to the unintended acceleration reasonably

Lain Iwakura posted:

what a level-headed individual who surely will respond to the unintended acceleration reasonably

rotor posted:

i mean if you dont care about ad revenue - which musk clearly does not - twitter gets a lot simpler internally and you can 100% turn off a lot of poo poo.

Carthag Tuek posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657

jk :crylaugh:

Tiny Timbs posted:

https://twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1518624451725717504?s=20&t=1u3vifNcjak-nktvLfxBhw

EricBauman posted:

even if the 'he's fired' thing is fake, that isn't really going to inspire twitter employees.

actually, being "fake" fired on twitter, then humiliated about still coming to the office with a "didn't i fire you yesterday? why are you here, you pussy?" is even worse than just being fired and it being clear.

there's a reason mock executions are kind of frowned upon

Tiny Timbs posted:

https://twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1518624451725717504?s=20&t=1u3vifNcjak-nktvLfxBhw

post hole digger posted:

calling Elon musk "African American" has replaced "I identify as..." as the one conservative joke.

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

I've gotta say I'm having great fun sending rude replys to his tweets, I don't even care if he sees them or lot, it's just funny to be able to call a billionaire a fuckman to his face

Pinterest Mom posted:

on just a basic level
elon says he's sleeping in the office and working at his breaking point, his moderation and policy decisions are costing him hundreds of millions (billions?) in revenue, he's neglecting his other companies

and he decides that the best use of his time rn is to spend the day playing jenga with microservices


that's very surprising* to me!




*yeah yeah i shouldn't be

Cat Face Joe posted:

quote:

Elon Musk over the weekend apologized for Twitter being “super slow in many countries” and then blamed it on “poorly batched RPCs [remote procedure calls].” First, let’s get this out of the way now: According to many former Twitter engineers, still on Twitter, this is bull poo poo. “As the former tech lead for timelines infrastructure at Twitter, I can confidently say this man has no idea wtf he's talking about,” former Twitter engineer Ben Leib wrote.

But the fact is that Twitter is breaking and, as someone who has spent the last two weeks outside of the US, it is breaking down in different ways depending on how and where you access it — I’ve seen upside down threads, disappearing tweets, my spam filters are broken, and I’ve seen links being incorrectly blocked for malicious content. But it’s not just falling apart on a structural level, it’s also creating a cascade of bizarre sociopolitical effects across the world.

In Japan, the lack of curated news topics has turned the site into 4chan. There are reportedly about a dozen people left working for Twitter in India, where the company is still actively suing the country’s right-wing government over content removal. Twitter Mexico is shut down completely, much to the excitement of Mexico’s left-wing populist president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who celebrated that the “snakes” were gone. Twitter’s entire operation in Africa is also gone. And there are only two people left working for the company in Brussels, literally days before the European Union enacts the Digital Markets Act, which will, among other things, force interoperability between app stores and messaging apps. It’s also possible the site has already begun violating the EU’s GDPR.

Lain Iwakura posted:

what a level-headed individual who surely will respond to the unintended acceleration reasonably

LanceHunter posted:

I wonder how much longer we've got until twitter embeds break.

No Mods No Masters posted:

When this happens it'll be the best thing to happen to the forums in living memory