Twitter Exodus Hits Teams Tasked with Regulatory, Content Issues Globally

It won't fail immediately but at the first major problem it will get interesting.

I did not see anyone make any such statements. Who are you referring to?

[1] https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159532050115648716...

Plus suddenly I’m getting really weird “topics” or whatever these random posts are in my feed. I’ve opted out of several of them and they just keep appearing. Like “popular videos” keeps inserting itself into my feed, and if I click on it it will say “don’t worry, you won’t see more of these” every time. I’ve clicked the “never show me this” button a dozen times or so and it’s still appearing in my feed.

Not to mention just the general algorithm being bad. I follow tons of accounts. But last few times I’ve checked twitter there’s maybe a page or two of new posts, then I scroll a bit further and it’s the same stuff as yesterday. Or tweets from a few days ago that I already saw. I’ve had to manually check the pages of people I follow to find their tweets. I’m just missing lots of stuff now.

Twitter is slowly falling apart. I think it’s only a matter of time before larger site-breaking issues appear. Most of the accounts I follow are also posting to mastodon now, and at least there mastodon will show me their posts in my feed.

What I have seen is people say the service will have degradation, which I have definitely observed first hand. I have also noticed the quality of ads have gone from major brands using it, to what I would consider much lower quality ads. Additionally, for some of the few mainstream ads I have seen, there have been ads I have seen directly above/below NSFW/NSFL content, which is a major brand safety issue.

Being blunt, they have saddled themselves with massive amounts of debt, their revenue sources are fleeing quicker than they can replace, some of their core user bases are actively trying to find a different platform and they have hemorrhaged employees they want to keep. Couple that with the current leadership at Twitter being very impulsive and doing stuff like unbanning everyone’s accounts (do people remember when ISIS was recruiting on Twitter), ad buyers (where almost the entirety of their revenue comes from) don’t see things getting better soon.

Even someone who is blinded by Elons charisma can add 2+2 and realize as a company that Twitter is in murky waters. MySpace didn’t disappear in a month, neither will Twitter.

New Twitter hasn’t had a major outage yet, but the degradation in various services kind of suggests that the remaining SREs/ops people are overwhelmed, since they can’t even keep up the full functionality of the site.

The "it was supposed to break in a couple of days" meme is an often repeated strawman by Elon's defenders. Can you point to any ex-Twitter employee claiming Twitter is supposed to break in a couple of days?

Most said the system is built to be resilient, as long as THERE ARE NO CHANGES MADE TO IT. And no significant outages, hacker attacks, and so on challenges.

You tell me, can Twitter coast indefinitely without changes? How do they plan to monetize it without changes? And without advertisers?

The problem is Elon and his goons are randomly shutting down things in attempt to "remove the bloat" and then they don't know how to turn them on. So things have been breaking in the last few weeks.

Any way you look at it, Twitter is on a course to disaster. But like the Titanic, it takes a bit to get there.

He laid off 90% of Asia and much of EU, betraying his bullshit about mission and vision.

This is just him spending money for a seat at the table with a specific party

Pretty much every position named in the FTC consent decree appears to have left which means they have no-one to handle that and, apparently, there's an audit due in January. This is not "just due to increased regulatory interest due to Twitter having new owners" - it's the existing consent decree they have to work under.