Elon Musk

He's going to make a print version of Twitter delivered to every subscriber's doorstep

lol wut? (xp)

they are tweets printed on concrete blocks and thrown through the window

it's like literally everything he does is the most opposite possible to touching grass

― mark s, Friday, November 4, 2022 1:33 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglin

This is good i am going to steal it to describe so many people

that's a good article jaymc, I really do think the most simple explanation for this is that's he's basically apartheid Lowtax

something something radium

lmao when you fire 50% of people with a coin toss things like this happen

Just to be clear, he fired the team working on this. https://t.co/56I1uyBIIR

— sillyrobin is a fmr Tweep (@SillyRobin) November 4, 2022

lol

that was the only other twitter blue thing that seemed possibly worthwhile, maybe an Apple News alternative or something that'd be more relevant if you get most of your headlines via tweet

a lot of companies have undergone layoffs or a major change in methodology or structure but those things often take **years** to work out. I don't think I've ever seen one try to do it this quickly without immediately going under. I'm curious what the next few weeks are gonna look like. obviously with half (!!) their staff getting the axe and (presumably) many more actively looking for new work it's only a matter of time before the company starts to experience some major issues, either a lengthy downtime or big accounts getting hacked or the whole thing just devolving into an unmoderated cesspool overnight. kinda get the feeling that if Twitter becomes unusable for like 2 weeks the vast majority of their users just won't come back. maybe it won't even be that long.

Fail whale being hastily sorted out for the app as we speak

lmao keep posting dude

You tweeted a conspiracy theory from a website less credible than the National Enquirer like four days ago. We all need to look inward as well as outward.

— Hank Green 🧦 (@hankgreen) November 4, 2022

And therefore Twitter should die?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2022

got that real Big Don energy with that reply

thank god he can't run for President

Elon, face it: As long as you are not perfect in every way, you are to blame for everything that goes wrong. Because everyone else who criticizes you is perfect in every way and therefore has the right to blame you for everything.

— Maren Kahnert 🦊⚔❤ (@marenkahnert) November 4, 2022

🤣💯

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 4, 2022

This really is like if Michael Scott was the world's richest man.

An illuminating exchange:

one of those stories in three tweets pic.twitter.com/Attc0TUWPs

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 4, 2022

I know little about marketing, but Paskalis' MMA Global seems to have just about every big brand as a member.

coincidentally he seems to be currently celebrating brand safety week

Post Brand Safety week speakers dinner recap with two great friends. pic.twitter.com/ShKT21g1kw

— Lou Paskalis 🇺🇸 (@LouPas) November 3, 2022

Some Jack Torrance energy there in that photo

the kubrick stare, brand safety week edition

As a former SRE, I'd just like to say:
This site isn't going to burn down. That's way too calm and organized a death for a site this big which apparently just fired most of the on-call staff.

— foone🏳️‍⚧️ (@Foone) November 4, 2022

Right now a disk is filling up on a server somewhere in some data center that a person who has just been laid off has been manually clearing every few days and when that disk fills up Twitter will go down.

— @✧✧✧@i✧✧.excha✧✧✧ (@craigcalef) November 4, 2022

xp i think that thread is a bit rich, but i keep getting surprised about how fast things are going, and who knows

this is not wrong

Part of me is morbidly curious to know what happens when you try to take infra spend from $1.8bn to $0.8bn after firing 80% of your infra staff and with 100% of those remaining looking to be somewhere else as soon as possible.

— Mark Dennehy (@MarkDennehy) November 4, 2022

its an interesting experiment lol

Evidence that Twitter is falling apart: I've been receiving multiple DMs from people who joined in December 1969. Anyone familiar with the Unix Epoch will recognize that date and that it indicates timestamp failures. pic.twitter.com/B4Cbs0GeXM

— Ken Shirriff (@kenshirriff) November 4, 2022

someone should look into why computers dont work better

I can't speak to halving the infrastructure support but I know what it looks like when you outsource over half of your infrastructure support and the outsourced support is nearly worthless. It's not good!

I wonder how long an outage or outages would need to be to kill Twitter off?

This new Facebook sliding pay scale based on popularity to message people is bullcrap. $5 to message Josh Groban? pic.twitter.com/SH5VZfZHwo

— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) April 24, 2013

katie n’s account reminds me i’d pay for twitter blue if it let me have an animated gif as my profile pic

pic.twitter.com/joQLyGFwRa

— Bullwark (@MattOben) November 4, 2022

assuming they pulled source control stats I wonder if it was lines written or lines changed

it’d be funny if the top ranked dev was some pedant that kept running some code formatting tool

lol this whole thing is so wild, also he had tesla guys making the decisions so there was no one to say like hey this person does have a ton of commits but they take care of this critical thing

why are you speed running firing half a company treat yourself take a few weeks to figure it out

^this

it’s the old “move fast and break things” style of techbrodom

it’s not so much “build a plane in midair”
as
“buy a plane while it’s flying, kick half the crew out, and find out how passengers feel re zeppelins vs planes and maybe start dismantling and do a zeppelin type thing instead but yknow cooler”

he obvs just thinks its all bullshit engineers are always whining about something but if you just stick to your business guy instincts everything works out *cell phone video of tesla burning on a desolate highway*

The thing I can't quite understand about paid DMs is that one of the appeals of Twitter has always been that you could conceivably catch the attention of a famous person *without* needing to pay for the privilege. You can just tag them! I guess a DM would make it more likely that the famous person would see the message, but unless Twitter is paying them to respond, I don't know why they wouldn't just ignore it.

could do an opt in thing where the celebrity sets the price and gets a cut but only gets paid upon reply

Thank god for the thumbs up emoji

ikr

I absolutely love lagoon’s dedication to being on this guy’s case, if Twitter goes down I will come straight here for live reaction

lol thank you, this thread has been a good outlet so that i dont tweet about him all day

it’s the old “move fast and break things” style of techbrodom

this, very much this. like a nathaniel west novel for the tech age

The fun thing is going to be when his actions really impact everyone negatively and his fans blame it on anyone other than him.

the impersonations when blue check goes money = lots of people gonna be trying to get Josh Groban arrested by posting in first person about crimes he committed

xpost my friend the otherwise-liberal Elon defender, I thought for sure this would be it, and he wrote a three paragraph essay and told everyone they were not welcome to disagree w/ him on the topic in his thread

fuck this whole blue-check thing

because fuck anyone not running dark mode

So many dudes gonna be sending their life savings to fake sex worker accounts (already a problem but infinitely worse with paid checkmarks) and inevitably taking it out on the real person.

xp I’ve never used dark mode anywhere