Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week
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(Not a fan of Musk, just playing devil's advocate because I enjoy exploring other perspectives)
They have RSS too: https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/feed.xml
I feel sad for all that will be lost - the wit, the wisdom, the ability to reach out to pretty much anyone.
Perhaps it will be a slow transition, just like Signal has gained more and more users in the past years.
I recently installed Signal and 8 people were on there.
I'm not sure how to count but I suspect 450+ are on WhatsApp.
The minorities can be very loud on this stuff. Most people don't care.
George Hotz is going to be doing a 12 week internship at Twitter to optimize their code. And if you know anything about Hotz, he doesn't involve himself with any bullshit, and most certainly knows what he is doing software wise. Twitter is far from lost.
Every single time they've continued tweeting with exactly the same frequency.
I also suspect they were a pretty bloated organisation and they needed to change things radically.
It will ruffle a lot of Elon hating feathers, but Twitter is going nowhere.
Hell, there are projects with a bus factor of one beneath all of our infrastructure (insert relevant xkcd here), and those are much simpler than such a monstrosity like twitter.
The idea of geohot pulling a 12-week “internship” to “optimise Twitter” to spite the hordes of “virtue signallers” is so hilariously self-referential and Pythonesque it’s fantastic.
They could write an entire Silicon Valley season out of this prompt.
The point was that anyone who is calling Twitter dead is virtue signaling.
They just had to not click on a button by 5pm yesterday.
I assume that if anything will go wrong, it'll start there; the software itself shouldn't need to be handheld so much.
If it's all Kubernetes and what-not, and it still too complex for mere-mortals to grok then all companies should be worried.
"I'm taking down this company....... with no survivors"
– Elon's supporters maybe.
This will also include fake news, since those people/easy believers could also pay the 8$.
"I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices."
"Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out."
Elon Musk:
"Thanks for helping out. You’re a lifesaver!"
https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593404311832338442?...