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Merged Musk buys Twitter!/ Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold....

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The Great Zaganza said:
Using up employees until they quit is Amazon's business model.
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Yeah but Amazon is at least smart-evil enough to do it on semi-skilled warehouse bodies and not "The people who keep the company running."

I doubt the people who run AWS have to pee in a bottle on their breaks.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Yeah but Amazon is at least smart-evil enough to do it on semi-skilled warehouse bodies and not "The people who keep the company running."

I doubt the people who run AWS have to pee in a bottle on their breaks.
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They seem to have been improving their ways even on that... not because its the right thing to do, no they have realized that pretty soon they will have churned through everyone that is both willing and able to work at their warehouses.
 
Here's the thing.

For all the horror stories out of Amazon their Glassdoor rating is actually "fairly okay" with a 74% rating with almost a 150,000 reviews/ratings. That's not "Dream Job" but it's not "Late Capitalist Hellscape" either.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Yeah but Amazon is at least smart-evil enough to do it on semi-skilled warehouse bodies and not "The people who keep the company running."

I doubt the people who run AWS have to pee in a bottle on their breaks.
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They do not, they have actual skills.
 
Why one man believes Twitter is doomed.

I've seen a lot of people asking "why does everyone think Twitter is doomed?"

As an SRE and sysadmin with 10+ years of industry experience, I wanted to write up a few scenarios that are real threats to the integrity of the bird site over the coming weeks.

For context, I have seen some variant of every one of these problems pose a serious threat to a billion-user application. I've even caused a couple of the more technical ones. I've been involved with triaging or fixing even more.
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Potential scenarios that could possibly bring down Twitter if any happen.
 
shemp said:
Why one man believes Twitter is doomed.



Potential scenarios that could possibly bring down Twitter if any happen.
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Thinking about this, it may not even be obvious to the casual user if things are breaking when they are breaking.

It could be a problem with replication. Meaning someone hitting their data center in LA sees a tweet that doesn't make it to someone in London. Or an ad that was supposed to be shown to a user, and counted as shown, wasn't actually. If their advertisers stop believing that their targeted ads are being correctly displayed to the correct users then their revenue could soon drop to 0 except for Starlink ads I guess.
 
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Actually yeah. Didn't think about that. Advertisers getting sick of the site might kill it before any technical issue does.

Unless in a panic Musk opens up Twitter ads to less savory outlets who are willing to deal with a less reliable site because no one else will run their ads and I just answered my own question.

Does Twitter own it's own "backbone" or does it run off of AWS or something?
 
"Breaking News. Twitter Headquarters lost, everyone who knew the address fired. Musk swears he wrote it down on a sticky note somewhere."
 
dudalb said:
God, Jesus.\
That sounds like something from the HBO show "SIlicone Valley" except the writers would have rejected it as being too unbelivable to get a laugh.
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I think the guy who wrote that lists his account as "mostly comedy" or something like that? There are so many of these jokes going around, it is hard to say what is fiction.
 
Well this sounds....like a nightmare.

Elon Musk on Twitter : https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593673844996288512

New Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach.

Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted & demonetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter.

You won’t find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from rest of Internet.

Kathie Griffin, Jorden Peterson & Babylon Bee have been reinstated.

Trump decision has not yet been made.
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jeremyp said:
I'm really liking the new Twitter features. For example, the hexagonal badge means the profile picture is an NFT* and the blue check mark** means the account is paying $96/year to Elon Musk. You can tell at a glance that the guy below is both an NFT-bro and a Muskrat.

* "to use this feature, link your Twitter account to your crypto wallet" - yeah, right

** annoying you still have to click on it to find out if it was for verification or payment
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And you can see from his comment that he's also an absolute idiot who has no idea what he's talking about.
 
JoeMorgue said:
You see this whole thing is giving me a weird feeling.

He's failed too perfectly. A person known as a business tech mogul (whether or not that reputation is deserved is beside the point) buying a massive, well known tech company/service and immediately destroying it with this kind of speed and efficiency is just... too perfect. It feels off. It's a little TOO poetic. It's too much of an on the nose punchline to a softball setup.

This isn't the kind of stupid Musk strikes me as.

When a person who legally changes their name to "The Worlds Greatest Belt Maker" and owns the biggest belt company in the world and he buys the second biggest belt maker in the biggest belt company merger of all time and calls a press conference in the Belt Capital of the World on the International Belt Day to announce he's invented The Best Belt of All Time by buying up the 100 best Belt Patents that have ever been issued and he walks out on stage to the roar of the crowd, smiles, and waves, takes a deep breath to begin his speech... and then at that exact moment his pants fall down... well like I said a little too perfect.
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Move quickly and break things.
 
Apparently something like 1200 employees decided 3 months severance pay sounded the better offer:

New York Times

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Elon Musk sent a flurry of emails to Twitter employees on Friday morning with a plea.

“Anyone who actually writes software, please report to the 10th floor at 2 p.m. today,” he wrote in a two-paragraph message, which was viewed by The New York Times. “Thanks, Elon.”

About 30 minutes later, Mr. Musk sent another email saying he wanted to learn about Twitter’s “tech stack,” a term used to describe a company’s software and related systems. Then in another email, he asked some people to fly to Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco to meet

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Sounds like he's turning more and more into Mr. Rumbold by the minute. Not just disaster, but bungled disaster. Can't even let the disaster alone to disast itself, he has to keep helping it get worse!
 
Darat said:
Apparently something like 1200 employees decided 3 months severance pay sounded the better offer:
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"Brilliant strategy of telling all your employees they suck and will have to work themselves to death and then offering 3 months right before the Holidays somehow backfires, experts baffled."
 
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