This is Elon Musk 101. He lies and commits fraud after fraud for more than half a decade now. But tech crowd used to see him as a mix of Jesus and Ironman, and gave him a free pass, because he's cool. Luckily, it seems he ran out of luck with Twitter tho, and tides are turning.
Assuming there’s anything left to sale. With how recklessly he operates it, I can bet $100, that they’ll have catastrophic outage in next 1-2 years, that ends up in weeks long downtime and/or significant data loss.
> Everyone said Twitter would have crashed and burned by now.
Nobody said that![0] I'll have to trot out my code-freeze analogy again: a lot of companies successfully perform code-freezes and run with skeleton crews when a lot of staff are away (think end of year holiday period in the west, and the Chinese new year in China). Nothing crashes and burns, because that's the period of lowest entropy, and the periods are brief. Things get shaky when changes are made, and you run into unexpected first and second order effects.
That said, my Twitter experience is already degraded: some tweets don't always load on the first try ("Tweet is unavailable" which I had never seen before the Musk era, except for legitimately deleted tweets[1]). I've also started seeing a scrolling bug in the mobile app, where it twitches endlessly, until I nudge it a little more. I've ended up turning off auto-updates to avoid new UI bugs. The web client has terrible layout on mobile (when I last checked), where some UI elements didn't fit on the screen horizontally. It's a death by a thousand cuts
0. That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
1. I'm assuming there is an elevated error rate somewhere in the bowels of Twitter as some client requests fail for some seemingly random reason
There was constant controversy after Elon fired like half the company and hemorrhaging engineers if the site could stay up. Were you asleep for that month or something?
Like plenty happened, including lawsuits because they couldn’t, you know, send severance letters. The only thing here is you expected things to happen yesterday, but in reality it’s a slow roll towards a cliff. You’ll only one day suddenly see the cumulative consequences of all the small things when they drop off that ledge.
'send severance letters' ah yes today's narrative about another lawsuit that will go nowhere and everyone will forget in a week for the next unsubstantiated talking point.
Twitter had local outages in Australia, New Zealand and a global outage like a week ago?
People seem to forgot that we currently set-up data-centers to be very redundant and sort of self-healing. But if I read somewhere correctly Elon Musk also gave orders to start shutting down all redundant data-centers.
That does sound like the kind of story that someone would write, and that many people would read, and then comment on - without much evidence whatsoever.
