Twitter

Yeh, some more brands getting dunked in this thread
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1590899514638229506

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1590870008380678144?s=20&t=c3iZlkE3O5hyE_Owsjjg4A

Always happy to admit when I'm wrong, so I take back any criticism of Musk's policies re twitter.

This blue tick reboot is excellent.

You'll be sad to hear that it's been paused then.

https://twitter.com/TraceyB40530476/status/1591149732466143232

https://twitter.com/lukaseder/status/1591029722297008128

Actual USGov accounts joining the party.

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So many engineers fired it's starting to break as bugs aren't getting fixed quickly enough.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/?utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=Twitter

Now he's just pulling wires out.

Earlier today:

Now 2FA (via SMS) is broken:

Probably be fixed soon, but still.

Is he dressed like Ironman in his photo?

No

Twitter (which I'm not a member of) appears to be changing it's behaviour in the past couple of days. I'm pretty sure it used to be (only a couple of days ago) that when I clicked on a link, it would only let me scroll so far on the page before nagging me that I had to sign in.

Now (I think) I can see as much as I want, unless that was deliberate he's giving his content away for free to anyone with / without a log in.

Presumably it's that microservices thing that he's turning off (one somewhere around 2FA one appears to also have gone, below), there must be some associated with the scrolling / log in reminder behaviour.

Also I wonder (although I know the reason) how he comes up with 'only 20% of twitter's architectural infrastructure' being essential to run it. I imagine it means something along the lines of 'the best case scenario of putting a tweet onto someones wall takes only 20% of our services'.

There's no-one previously employed by Twitter who would have fed him that line (because it will be totally untrue), and no self-respecting engineer from Tesla or wherever would be able to understand a whole other enterprise stack so quickly. It's such a BS line that's been created and given to him to please him that it makes him look even more foolish for actually running with it.

Edit: I've just noticed (probably belatedly) that Musk is actually suggesting that the Twitter stack apparently obeys Pareto's rule (80/20), I'm not sure why he'd be so shocked at that!

I don’t have an account but am a pro hacker so worked out you could click Log In, then close the login box and continue to scroll.

Ha! No way - didn't know this. That's been annoying me for ages.

I doubt Musk has even heard of GDPR, but he's about to learn the hard way.

I'm pretty sure it used to be (only a couple of days ago) that when I clicked on a link, it would only let me scroll so far on the page before nagging me that I had to sign in.

if you replace twitter.com for nitter.net then you see exactly the same content (although it looks like a 90's website) but no adverts and no annoying JS shite that throws up random login boxes.

(There is a cap on usage so it may not work late in the day, whenever the "day" begins for them.)

Also didn't know this - thanks!

Speaking of twitter, is there a similar account for Elon Musk as there was for Trump in that you see all of his tweets (retweeted by the account) but without giving him a follower?

(For Trump it was something like IRetweetTrump or similar.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63648505

business genius guy here: we’ve sacked 50% of your coworkers, and now we’re planning to make your working lives hell. Or you can take three months wages and not have to worry about any of this shit.

Would be surprised if Twitter makes it past the end of 2022 at this rate.

Yup, spot-on.

I am on twitter and the amount of maga right wing nut jobs has gone up at least tenfold. And the stuff they are saying is very dangerous and violent.
Lots of “we know where you live” and gun waving bullshit. This is no joke.

Unsurprisingly, 80% of the devs offered the 'sign up to hardcore work or take 3 months severance' have taken the severance option. So, 50% already fired and 40% leaving.
Not going to well for Elon.