Elon Musk

on the bright side, I don't think any huge open source projects that are in wide use have twitter as the primary contributor so we won't end up with software forks

reading the twitter kernel guys thread talking about how newer companies are all cloud bois was left wondering once you get big isnt that just so expensive, wouldnt it be worth it to roll yr own at some point

oh yeah, but even then you need someone else's cloud for some stuff even if it's just image caches

You can be a software engineer essentially anywhere including like banks, grocery stores, universities, companies you haven’t heard of that make ERP systems for hyperspecific sectors…

HI DERE. Perfectly happy to live and work in the software suburbs.

I am going to miss this place. We built something special here, and I do not expect to see its like ever again. I have worked here at Twitter for over 11 years. Back in July, I was the 27th most tenured employee at the company. Now I'm the 15th. I am not going to click "yes" pic.twitter.com/IqVrFrUiaB

— THISWILLWORK (@THISWILLWORK) November 17, 2022

wouldnt it be worth it to roll yr own at some point

That's exactly what Basecamp (the inventors of Rails) have decided to do.

Twitter’s Slack currently has hundreds of employees giving the 🫡 emoji, meaning they decided to not stay for Musk’s “Twitter 2.0” cultural reset. The company had just under 3,000 employees remaining before the deadline to say “yes” or not hit 20 min ago.

— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 17, 2022

he shouldve bought the company before the salute emoji was introduced

there were 7000 when he took over fwiw.

fn crazy

reading the twitter kernel guys thread talking about how newer companies are all cloud bois was left wondering once you get big isnt that just so expensive, wouldnt it be worth it to roll yr own at some point

― lag∞n, Thursday, November 17, 2022 5:49 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

almost all of twitter is in private datacenters for this reason among others. ml experimentation (not serving) and data science stuff is the big (and expensive exception).

lmao

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhzPRnEUcAECrNu?format=jpg&name=medium

even tho twitter workers are for the most part still in good shape compared to most people that does just suck to have a job that you like and some billionaire freak comes along and ruins it

it does.

someone shd send that mfr to mars

didn’t half of basecamp quit bc the founder was like no politics allowed

yeah lol that was a good scandal that dude had been acting like his shit didnt stink for literally ever

It sucks to have someone devalue your work and piss all over a place you've invested time and energy in whether you're a line cook or tweep (or an alt-weekly editor, let's say). Even if you have good prospects, leaving a job is always disruptive and when it's accompanied by feeling like your own work and the whole enterprise you were part of is being treated like shit, it's even worse.

the good work continues

NEW: Twitter just alerted employees that effective immediately, all office buildings are temporarily closed and badge access is suspended. No details given as to why.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 17, 2022

We're hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company. Also, they're still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for.

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) November 17, 2022

the emperor temporarily realizes he has no clothes

the nice thing is, elon doesn't need to hire anyone to replace the engineers and devs, he can continue to rely on free unsolicited advice from his friends on twitter!

lol they dont even know who works there anymore

does this mean nobody is actually running the site right now?

mods are asleep change yr dn to elon sucks

elon already entering his howard hughes phase

he has truly disrupted the social media industry

Hey how much to acquire ILX by the way

Pack of chewing gum for a start.

next communication from twitter: as a favor, please do not watch or post about world cup

this is all a bit on the nose tbqh

I feel bad saying this but honestly this is the funniest thing to ever happen

richest guy in the world spent tens of billions of dollars to just get mercilessly bullied on his favorite website before destroying it within weeks

its incredible content

This all happening at the same time as FTX and John Fetterman going to the senate is just too much

!!! “I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers," "There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”https://t.co/5lmWQHX2ft

— Nitasha Tiku (@nitashatiku) November 18, 2022

Legitimately stunned this is happening so fast

xxyyzz mentioned a wildcat strike and i guess this is that, but the strikers get three months pay in advance?

As we’re all very aware, folks on visas are stuck, so thats who makes up most of the roughly 25% (or less than 1,000….) expected to stay. The actual impact is not yet known — there have been no internal comms about what comes next. We’re nearly 2 hours post deadline.

— Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) November 17, 2022

doesn't seem like enough people tbqh

sorry wrong tweet in the thread, meant this one

What I’m hearing from Twitter employees; It looks like roughly 75% of the remaining 3,700ish Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the “hardcore” email.

Even though the deadline has passed, everyone still has access to their systems.

— Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) November 17, 2022

first goal in the world cup is when it ends

The most abominable villain in this story is the US immigration system, in the end

i kind of want to know how Ligma & Johnson are doing. rooting for those two

if twitter dies what's Elon gonna post on

Good question

Post it notes on the toilet

he could buy truth social and try again

first goal in the world cup is when it ends

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, November 17, 2022 7:47 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

beautiful

I haven’t seen an update on the sale of the debt in a couple days I wonder how that’s going

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.

— Alex Cohen (@anothercohen) November 18, 2022

There's like 50 people stuck in a Twitter parking garage in Sunnyvale right now - the barrier arm won't go up because their badges are disabled. Someone in facilities management is supposedly bringing them a sawzall.

— Specifically Performing Steiner (@TweetOfSteiner) November 18, 2022

Probably faje