| Twitter implosion 10:15 - Nov 11 with 3982 views | Cotty |
Anyone else finding this whole soap opera rather amusing? Has $44bn ever been pi$$ed away so quickly? |  | | |  |
| Twitter implosion on 10:18 - Nov 11 with 3237 views | Dubtractor |
It is indeed pretty funny. Though also a tiny bit annoying as I've got a bit of traction on there in terms of my radio shows and a music community that links into them. But on balance, mainly funny. |  |
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| Twitter implosion on 10:20 - Nov 11 with 3228 views | GeoffSentence |
Grant Shapps has had to write to them to remind them to comply with UK law with regard to redundancies for UK based employees.
With P&O having got away with it, there is a danger that other companies will just ignore the law and sack whomever they want however they want. |  |
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| Twitter implosion on 10:21 - Nov 11 with 3212 views | Steve_M |
The really interesting question is what the hell were the banks who lent Musk billions thinking? It was pretty obvious that the $44 billion valuation was ridiculous. It's one thing writing down debt over time but not after a few weeks.
Musk is certainly challenging Truss and Kwarteng for financial genius this year. Sam Bankman-Fried merely trailing in third as his cryptoponzi scheme falls apart. |  |
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| Twitter implosion on 10:27 - Nov 11 with 3183 views | giant_stow |
Aside from the financial stuff, I read an interesting article yesterday saying that the technical infrastructure of Twitter is already suffering as a result of the layoffs. Too many key engineers have gone and bugs are already creeping in, with the risk being that these bugs cascade as the weeks go by. The article gave it c. 6 months before there'd be a catastrophic collapse. |  |
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| Twitter implosion on 10:32 - Nov 11 with 3149 views | unbelievablue |
| Twitter implosion on 10:27 - Nov 11 by giant_stow |
Aside from the financial stuff, I read an interesting article yesterday saying that the technical infrastructure of Twitter is already suffering as a result of the layoffs. Too many key engineers have gone and bugs are already creeping in, with the risk being that these bugs cascade as the weeks go by. The article gave it c. 6 months before there'd be a catastrophic collapse. |
It'll be sooner, from what I've heard (a couple of ex-colleagues work there). |  |
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| Twitter implosion on 10:33 - Nov 11 with 3133 views | Ewan_Oozami |
| Twitter implosion on 10:32 - Nov 11 by unbelievablue |
It'll be sooner, from what I've heard (a couple of ex-colleagues work there). |
Dread to think what's going to happen to all the data on that platform when it does go down.... |  |
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| Twitter implosion on 10:34 - Nov 11 with 3119 views | unbelievablue |
| Twitter implosion on 10:33 - Nov 11 by Ewan_Oozami |
Dread to think what's going to happen to all the data on that platform when it does go down.... |
It's hosted on AWS since 2020. | |
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| Twitter implosion on 10:40 - Nov 11 with 3060 views | LankHenners |
It's very funny that he has to keep reworking his ideas on parody/fake accounts because he keeps getting clowned on and is so thin-skinned and precious about his popularity that he wants to remove any way for people to make fun of him.
It'll be a shame if it drives people off the platform en masse or just collapses the whole site but it's satisfying to know Musk is having his ego hurt every day as a consequence of his hubris. |  |
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| Twitter implosion on 10:42 - Nov 11 with 3033 views | Ewan_Oozami |
| Twitter implosion on 10:34 - Nov 11 by unbelievablue |
It's hosted on AWS since 2020. |
Didn't make myself clear there, it's not that the data will disappear completely if Twitter disappears- it's who owns the data, who has access to it and by what methods that counts.
Given that some very important people and organisation use Twitter this could become one of the largest data mismanagement events of all time! | |
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| Twitter implosion on 12:34 - Nov 11 with 2828 views | KingsCrossBlue |
| Twitter implosion on 10:40 - Nov 11 by LankHenners |
It's very funny that he has to keep reworking his ideas on parody/fake accounts because he keeps getting clowned on and is so thin-skinned and precious about his popularity that he wants to remove any way for people to make fun of him.
It'll be a shame if it drives people off the platform en masse or just collapses the whole site but it's satisfying to know Musk is having his ego hurt every day as a consequence of his hubris. |
We've just run some media analysis on this, which real nerds might find interesting: https://commetric.com/2022/11/11/what-does-musks-twitter-takeover-mean-for-pr-an |  | | |
| Twitter implosion on 12:44 - Nov 11 with 2773 views | chicoazul |
Anything that discomforts or annoys that man is ok by me. |  |
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| Twitter implosion on 12:50 - Nov 11 with 2739 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
| Twitter implosion on 10:27 - Nov 11 by giant_stow |
Aside from the financial stuff, I read an interesting article yesterday saying that the technical infrastructure of Twitter is already suffering as a result of the layoffs. Too many key engineers have gone and bugs are already creeping in, with the risk being that these bugs cascade as the weeks go by. The article gave it c. 6 months before there'd be a catastrophic collapse. |
I read they ranked their coders by output and just fired the bottom whatever percent meaning all the really good ones who were working on (and had the ability for) the most complex coding issues, which take longer, were let go |  |
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| Twitter implosion on 13:21 - Nov 11 with 2638 views | bluelagos |
Best summary I've seen so far.
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| Twitter implosion on 13:25 - Nov 11 with 2615 views | N2_Blue |
The whole Musk/Twitter episode is surely just another reminder of why no individual should have such immense wealth. It's immoral on any level.
No one should ever have that sum of money - individual wealth should be capped at a certain level (such as a billion) and redistributed or committed to issues such as global warming/poverty/health.
Before people cry that's unfair, you do have a choice to stop accruing wealth over a certain level once you know you will not benefit. It doesn't impact them, just stops them meddling in affairs that they shouldn't such as Musk is now managing to do. Go enjoy life, or if you want to work get involved in projects for humanity that actually achieve something.
The wealth can be assured of not falling below a certain level so its nothing to do with safeguarding future etc.
Will never happen of course, but perhaps humanity can think about this when we start again after global catastrophes wipe out 99% of us and there is a natural reset. |  |
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| Twitter implosion on 13:25 - Nov 11 with 2616 views | giant_stow |
| Twitter implosion on 10:32 - Nov 11 by unbelievablue |
It'll be sooner, from what I've heard (a couple of ex-colleagues work there). |
This is probably going to sound really stupid, as questions go*, but how comes it takes so much to keep Twitter going?
I'm not a posters on there - just read bits, but it doesn't seem like there's a constant stream of new features, so apart from managing the server and data, I don't really get why its such a big job to keep it running?
*I should have an idea of this as someone who builds simple / small websites! | |
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| Twitter implosion on 13:28 - Nov 11 with 2597 views | XYZ |
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| Twitter implosion on 13:30 - Nov 11 with 2577 views | giant_stow |
| Twitter implosion on 13:28 - Nov 11 by XYZ |
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| Twitter implosion on 13:35 - Nov 11 with 2558 views | monytowbray |
| Twitter implosion on 13:25 - Nov 11 by giant_stow |
This is probably going to sound really stupid, as questions go*, but how comes it takes so much to keep Twitter going?
I'm not a posters on there - just read bits, but it doesn't seem like there's a constant stream of new features, so apart from managing the server and data, I don't really get why its such a big job to keep it running?
*I should have an idea of this as someone who builds simple / small websites! |
I mean, you should know really.
Scale.
Huge site, huge user base globally, huge security matters, a lot of live aspects that all need to work in tangent.
I expect a large chunk of the engineers work on ensuring stuff doesn’t break. |  |
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| Twitter implosion on 13:35 - Nov 11 with 2563 views | Mookamoo |
| Twitter implosion on 10:42 - Nov 11 by Ewan_Oozami |
Didn't make myself clear there, it's not that the data will disappear completely if Twitter disappears- it's who owns the data, who has access to it and by what methods that counts.
Given that some very important people and organisation use Twitter this could become one of the largest data mismanagement events of all time! |
Read an interesting article a while back saying we are living in the new Dark Ages, we just don't realise it.
If I remember it highlighted the Sydney 2000 Olympics that had asked all data to be stored electronically, including all the journals they had asked the athletes to record for future generations, only for it to go missing, presumably deleted by error. |  | | |
| Twitter implosion on 13:36 - Nov 11 with 2568 views | Steve_M |
| Twitter implosion on 13:28 - Nov 11 by XYZ |
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I put it on another thread earlier but this is my favourite 'verified' tweet so far:
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| Twitter implosion on 13:42 - Nov 11 with 2506 views | giant_stow |
| Twitter implosion on 13:35 - Nov 11 by monytowbray |
I mean, you should know really.
Scale.
Huge site, huge user base globally, huge security matters, a lot of live aspects that all need to work in tangent.
I expect a large chunk of the engineers work on ensuring stuff doesn’t break. |
You're right I should know! I get the scale thing, but I also get the impression that there are teams of engineers / coders working on the site's code all the time - this is the bit I don't get - why does that code need constant updates once its' gone live (after a featured update or something).
In my world, you publish a site and only touch the code if you need to add new features or fix a bug that you'd missed in the testing process. Or I spose if a plugin (wordpress land!) has been updated and breaks something. | |
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| Twitter implosion on 13:43 - Nov 11 with 2485 views | giant_stow |
| Twitter implosion on 13:36 - Nov 11 by Steve_M |
I put it on another thread earlier but this is my favourite 'verified' tweet so far:
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| Twitter implosion on 09:32 - Nov 15 with 1959 views | bluelagos |
100% with Elon on this one...
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| Twitter implosion on 09:35 - Nov 15 with 1944 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Twitter implosion on 10:21 - Nov 11 by Steve_M |
The really interesting question is what the hell were the banks who lent Musk billions thinking? It was pretty obvious that the $44 billion valuation was ridiculous. It's one thing writing down debt over time but not after a few weeks.
Musk is certainly challenging Truss and Kwarteng for financial genius this year. Sam Bankman-Fried merely trailing in third as his cryptoponzi scheme falls apart. |
I saw something about Musk coming up with and agreeing to this genius plan whilst pissed. No idea if that’s true, although I suspect we’ve all been there. Maybe not to the tune of $44BN though! |  |
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