Or they are bots, now that no one is trying to prevent bots from posting. That seems the most likely to me.
An increase is not a decrease. The people saying that Twitter is shedding users are not correct. Twitter is still growing.
So is cancer.
Stranger
Holy non-sequitur, Batman!
Incidentally, I don’t use Twitter other than to read breaking news, and my only post to it was a tweet mocking Trump in 2017.
Your implied claim that any growth is good growth is so evidently nonsense that it bears comment. If this “growth” is would-be insurrectionists and conspiranoists, Twitter is better off without it…unless, of course, you are of the Friedrich Flick mentality that success by any means is its own virtue, the deaths of a few millions of undesirable people be damned. Morality is such a last century modality, amitrite?
Stranger
I made no such claim! I just pointed out that Twitter is growing, not shrinking as others are suggesting.
I have no odea who is joining, and neither do you. I suspect that it’s simply due to the amount of media coverage the whole thing is getting. Free advertising.
I referenced Agile only in the sense of rapid iteration and a commitment to refactoring. That’s all.
You do this on the PRODUCTION systems?
I don’t do it on anything right now, as I’m retired. But yes, Agile is used on production systems. Continuous integration, continuous deployment. On the web, new features can be released almost daily, and you can’t afford six month development cycles. You need lots of automated testing to do it.
“Free advertising” is not a net benefit. It is far more likely that any additions are people motivated by Elon Musk’s vision of “free speech”, i.e. MAGA boosters, conspiranoists, “naturopathic medicine practitioners”, people selling pornography, and anyone else blocked from normal social media.
“Agile” is a specific approach to software development with specified methods, and “refactoring” code has a particular meaning; it is patently ridiculous to compare what Elon is doing to Agile development and refactoring code. He his hip-jerking decisions that impact thousands of developers who have worked to make Twitter what it was—for better or worse—with zero consideration for the well-being of employees, the consideration of current users, or the eventual success of the company. In fact, if he had deliberately invoked a strategy to destroy the Twitter platform he could scarcely have applied a better strategy except that Musk has never demonstrated a strategy to anything that he does, deigning such ‘details’ to less worthy underlings.
But sure, he’s hiring back “Ligma & Johnson” in a deliberate and planned effort to restructure Twitter into a veritable icon of free speech. Please continue; I’ve missed Monty Python’s Flying Circus and have been pining for a revival for decades.
Stranger
Nature of the users I know not. What I do know is that users are the product; advertisers are the customers. Products can be attractive to buyers or not. What’s happening with the advertisers, the payers of the bills?
I was in what was going to be Lucent, and all Bob Allen (the CEO of AT&T) wanted was to reduce expenses for the upcoming IPO. Since he was going with the main AT&T he didn’t give a crap if Lucent collapsed. It didn’t, not quite.
I made out like a bandit, I’m not complaining. And they were talking about moving chemists to EE and programming jobs to fill the holes.
Are they growing advertising revenue? Lots of users but no advertisers is not the road to success.
Stranger forgot to mention that they trashed the ad sales department in his list.
If I was a dedicated scamster with e.g. penis enhancements to sell I know exactly where I’d be registering thousands of fresh shillbot accounts right now. I’ll make plenty of money, Coke or GM ads won’t get in my way, and it’ll be glorious free-reign capitalism = rip-off salesmanship until the Last Day.
What is ad sales when your demographic is just the MyPillow guy and some off-brand dick pills? You just need one guy with some minimal Django skills to update the ads. Anyway, I’m sure the future of Twitter is robust with all of the Infowars crossovers. Who needs developers to maintain an established codebase, anyway?
Stranger
Regardless of what is going on with Musk at Twitter, it is not his only concern. If Tesla deserves its evaluation, it presumably does so because of Musk. If his mind is elsewhere, his other companies may or may not be better off. But shareholders don’t like it when attention is too divided, and if he has a turnaround plan now is the time to bring it. When good workers leave, so does lots of the institutional memory.
Actually, the evidence is that “Musk’s” companies actually function better when his attention is elsewhere.
Stranger
I figured as much, but it would be nice to actually see some of this evidence.
There is a fairly common notion in the tech world that people are doing ‘Agile’ just because they’re spending minimal time planning and specifying things, and more time rapidly trying things out, with a view that they will deliver important parts of a product really fast and efficiently*
*They generally don’t, in fact the most common outputs are waste, failure and staff turnover, but these people are in some weird sense, self-describing as ‘Agile’. Often they worked with someone who was Agile trained and they took in some of the ideas about why Agile can be good, along with a much smaller amount of actual framework concepts. It’s not Agile, but it thinks it is real hard.
And why do you think Twitter is growing? Is there any evidence of that, outside of some public statements made by Elon Musk, who… has a history of saying untrue things?
Given that every time you are presented evidence of Musk’s perfidy you respond with flat denial and dissimulation by way of claiming I and others are being dishonest and ultimately derailing the discussion in thread after thread, I’m not playing your reindeer games and would discourage anyone everyone else from doing so.
Stranger