Twitter C/D

I joined Hive but it seems pretty glitchy and slapdash.

I gave up and deactivated my Twitter. I hope it continues to go down like a clown car on fire, but I don't want to watch anymore.

no translate button on the web client

someone on twitter compared all of this to standing in the parking lot arguing re: which Denny's we were going to go to

And then someone suggests ihop

every promoted tweet I get now is really weird

Yeah, me too. It's starting to feel just junkier all around.

I thought the World Cup was supposed to bring twitter down

Maybe people are finally over soccer

saw some but not a lot of world cup tweets, might not be the right demo tho (american)

interesting posts from an ex-twitter engineer

https://www.metafilter.com/196970/Dear-Twitter-Advertisers#8316204

https://quitter.online/@dril

could be real since quitter is the mastodon of derek https://quitter.online/@admin https://twitter.com/derek8185338254 the guy who had the web show with dril

seems like a cool account https://quitter.online/@friend

i mean its him but they are just messing around

thats what its all about baby

dereks been doing the 'new forum bit' for a while even before all this

yeah i remember he had some other new twitter that was just a message board

idk how likely it was that the WC was gonna take Twitter out, I would assume they spent a long time beefing up their infrastructure to handle it

tbh if my company had suddenly cut 2/3rds of their IT workers I think we could probably coast by for a while, but there is just so much entropy in complex systems like this, impossible to know if they'll run into major problems in two months or in two hours

I've never worked for an organization of more than a few thousand people, but even at that scale, the wrong IT person being out sick can be a problem. I find it hard to believe losing half or more of your tech people at a tech company is sustainable for long.

we outright lost the ability to do a specific type of call center build at my company *permanently* once because one person resigned and nobody had documented the process lol

nice

lol, topic of interest: "Basketball"

https://i.imgur.com/VgbAuhU.png
https://i.imgur.com/vkXlA4j.png

extracting from comments on the bad VC-backed news site

There are currently three data centers, hosting all of the real-time and most of the batch production load. Ad-hoc load and some production batch load was migrating to GCP, but this was being significantly curtailed in the months before the acquisition closed because it turned out to be very expensive, much more so than anticipated and more than the equivalent workloads had cost in the data centers.

*nods sagely*

Such genius:

Before Elon Musk bought Twitter last month, the company’s executives had racked up hundreds of thousands of dollars in travel invoices that the social media service planned to pay.

But once Mr. Musk took over the company, he refused to reimburse travel vendors for those bills, current and former Twitter employees said. Mr. Musk’s staff said the services were authorized by the company’s former management and not by him. His staff have since avoided the calls of the travel vendors, the people said.

not paying your bills and then settling when a lawsuit is raised for a lesser amount is a tried and true tactic of another notable former chief executive

In Twitter’s New York office on Monday, the cafeteria, which once had items like grilled shrimp, served two types of macaroni and cheese, along with a salad bar, one person said.

pretty good mac n cheese selection tbf

shrimp to mac and cheese sounds like an upgrade tbh

anyone who has actually eaten the food available in offices like this knows that this is like, exciting for a few weeks and then you realize everything basically tastes the same and has been sitting under heating lamps for hours and you may as well be eating at the salad and soup bar of a Ruby Tuesday's.

correct, but it sounds so good when you're being recruited!

At age like 23

we had free food for years at my company and they got rid of it in 2006 (I started late 2004). prior to that, everybody made jokes about how disgusting the food was (they served imitation Krab, had a taco bar, etc). one of my managers created a fake menu that advertised "Bird Flu soup".

the moment the food went away, suddenly it was Ruth's Chris level food and people rage quit.

granted, let's be real - when you don't have to worry about paying for five meals a week, and the beverages you imbibe all day/snacks are all free, that's...a pretty good deal. but it was funny watching the perspective change.

I once contracted at Sky for a couple of months and you could have fish cooked to order in front of you. which was nice.

would kill for that now, love fish and I cook like shit

interesting posts from an ex-twitter engineer

https://www.metafilter.com/196970/Dear-Twitter-Advertisers#8316204

― 龜, Tuesday, November 22, 2022 12:10 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ya I think that's pretty spot on. so much IT work is just asking "why is this so complicated?" and then spending the next two weeks finding out exactly why. In my job there are probably like 5-6 little corners of the system for which I am "the guy". A couple of them are fairly important, where a few people know the mainframe side but only I really know the midtier side. Others are like little data access things, graphing programs, and what not. Yes we have documentation but I feel like that only takes you so far sometimes. We had someone on a pretty critical application die of Covid and I was the one tasked with figuring it out - I spent weeks trying to understand the data structures, why the tables were set up a certain way, which parts of the system had been migrated and which weren't, where all the fucking batch jobs were, what all the workarounds and testing tools were, etc. etc., all of which would've been a hell of a lot easier if I just had someone to ask fairly simple questions to. Well Twitter just got rid of thousands of people who probably each had their own specialized understanding of something, one can imagine the magnitude of headaches the "Twitter hardcore" are in for now

otm

also there is going to be a truly insane amount of technical debt piling up which may wind up causing outages for the dumbest possible reasons

i can’t tell how many people have actually left twitter—my feed seems the same as always, most of the ppl i follow who performatively quit when elon took over have now skulked back—but i feel like one of the worst yet still plausible outcomes is that twitter doesn’t die but like 10% of good posters leave but spread out across 5 different platforms

we haven't really seen the effects on the user side yet

they're noticeable if you're sensitive enough to the whispers of the computer

The machine stops

I went to some kind of nonprofit awards luncheon at twitter HQ (san francisco, a year or two before COVID) and the food was really good - but this probably wasn't the cafeteria fare

I've got a good friend that works at Google here, and they have (had?) food/cafeteria stations all over the office, with different stuff/themes on every floor. And he told me they still often just went out for lunch, lol

The machine stops

Technical debt? What’s that?

🤔 🧐 🤨

is that a legit question or a snarky one?

btw nobody is getting their archives because the hadoop hdfs cluster is out of disk space

— alex tax1a - 2020 (2) 🍳 (@atax1a) November 23, 2022

mah tweets

4/ "There has been an uptick in vacation requests without notice" pic.twitter.com/yOEyw3T7rR

— Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit) November 23, 2022

The problem with this policy is that apparently most people left at Twitter don't have managers.