For real? Twitter is dead.
I’m gonna stop breathing air. Only about 21% of it is oxygen
Breathing is such a waste of time.
What this whole thing has shown is how robust Twitter’s CI/CD pipeline is. Elon tweets some bullshit change request and it’s on prod in hours. I guess I knew that’s how most major companies operated, but it’s never this public. And it makes my company’s CI/CD efforts look so rinky-dink by comparison.
I would hope that real time RPCs to twitter’s backend use deadline propagation to prune RPC fanout. I mean, make RPCs to all backends that provide any value to the user at all, but only include results from those that return in time, rather than waiting for all of them.
“Twitter’s current lords and peasants system for who has two factors and who has one is bullshit.”
(oops – better clearly specify that this quote is a parody, or the Wrath of Elon will descend…)
Well it’s actually the system that sends 2FA codes, to be precise. But it amounts to the same thing.
I’m sure the change has already been reverted (not gonna test it tho). As @steronz mentioned, Twitter (like most big tech companies) has a modern CI/CD stack that lets these changes roll in and out quickly as needed. That’s part of my job (not at Twitter).
Which demonstrates the scary part here… if decisions are automated so they can be made quickly, that implies bad decisions can be made quickly. And it’s astonishing that Musk heard some tech chatter, and walked away thinking “microservices are bad”, and then he just shot 2FA in the head for lulz.
That’s survivable and recoverable for web services (as in this case), but if this were some sort of large data transformation or network change? Eesh. Glad I don’t work there.
You have to wonder just how much malicious compliance is going on over there right now.
It must be really uncomfortable to work at Twitter right now…
Well, that might not exactly be twitter’s institutional failure. Quite a lot has changed just recently, by brute force.
I disagree. A hiring manager at Bank of A is not going to look favorably on social media rants against the CEO of Bank JP, even if the spats were public.
Twitter has found at least one company willing to buy ads on their platform;
Big “Fred Trump walking into the casino, buying $10 million in chips, and throwing them in the dumpster” energy here.
Uh-huh; any other completely made-up hypothetical scenarios you’d like to offer in order to bolster your attempt at a point?
I mean, c’mon, we’re not talking a hiring manager looking side-eye at isolated “social media rants” by one disgruntled ex-employee. We’re talking massive corporate mismanagement right out there in full view of the public eye, to such a remarkable extent that practically the entire social-media world is remarking on it.
Routine prune-faced tut-tutting along the lines of “oh dear, it’s not a good look to criticize your former employer in public” doesn’t really apply here.
(And, again, note that the “social media rants” about “starving” the Twitter employees that pissed you off in the first place did not AFAICT come from a current or former Twitter employee anyway.)
We tried adding more but people burned their faces off every time they blew out a candle.
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This is probably one reason Musk’s style is causing more trouble for Twitter than it did for his previous enterprises – building actual physical cars or rockets necessarily involves a lot more preliminary steps where the problems with really bad ideas become evident before they’re fully implemented.
I’m not pissed off. Please don’t ascribe feelings to me. I think that grown ass adults making $150K a year complaining about the end of a “free lunch” perk are silly geese. Even worse are those who don’t work there, and are ranting about it, anyway.
These people who don’t exist sure are silly geese. Indeed.
…what about the people that don’t work there, but are ranting about the people who are ranting?
You don’t think they deserve to earn $150,000 a year?
I make no judgements about the precise nature or degree of your emotional state. But in the context of messageboard ordinary-language usage, you definitely come across as sufficiently indignant or disgusted or contemptuous—or some other of the many reactions that can not unreasonably be characterized by the term “pissed off”—to spend time and energy making several posts for the purpose of calling these tweeters “whiny entitled brats” who are “bad at adulting” and “silly geese” and “ranting”. Because they had the temerity to publicly criticize an employer for abruptly and hamhandedly terminating a job perk that many employees consider an attractive feature of their job.
(Not to mention that you’ve also made several other posts unsuccessfully trying to argue that an article containing advice about how to behave in a job interview is somehow meaningfully relevant to this situation.)
If you don’t want other posters to think you’re pissed off about this topic, then try sounding less pissed off about it.