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He's probably fine with the trade off. Get rid of the salary of 5k people for a minor outage (as of now).

I didn't know they had been doing that before! That's intriguing.

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>This is what happens when you fire everyone who knows what they are doing and start unplugging random server racks.

Has Twitter ever had an outage before the Elon Musk kerfuffle?

Google “fail whale”, but it’s essentially unheard of at this scale since they rewrote the tech stack many years ago.

you don’t need 3K+ employees to keep the site running.

i was at google and a service you probably use everyday if you have android was being supported by 3 people.

not defending elon but the company was bleeding money on edge of bankruptcy. feels like entitlement to me to give fake jobs to thousands of people who don’t produce value.

I keep seeing people say it was in the edge of bankruptcy. If that's true why did Musk pay 44 billion dollars for it?

They keep getting old Twitter confused with Elon’s Twitter, which he’s saddled with billions in LBO debt. Leveraged buyouts should be illegal.

Without knowing a single bit about Twitter's finances pre Elon, I can say that's not a convincing argument. He entered into a deal for a specific price and waived his right to back out of it after due diligence. He only bought it because he was about to be forced to purchase it by a court.

You’d be shocked to learn how many coworkers you had at Google, I’m sure….

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