Twitter C/D

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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.

off-topic if the topic is the tungMUSKa event but i just wanna say little has pleased me more on twitter than the fierce revolutionary socialist and author of the twittering machine richard seymour aka @leninology emerging as a dedicated twitter twitcher viz he mostly posts photos of birds and some of animals and it's pleasant and restful

Many of them are (to my non-twitching eyes, at least) impressive photos too.

why do national governments and other official bodies and agencies, or representatives of large organizations, or inddepedent agents seemingly acting in their own interest consider it necessary to tweet? how much can happen on the user side that no user knows about?

I wish myspace lasted and twitter did not.

I should have used the past perfect.

the past was perfect, because myspace existed

why do national governments and other official bodies and agencies, or representatives of large organizations, or inddepedent agents seemingly acting in their own interest consider it necessary to tweet? how much can happen on the user side that no user knows about?

I'm a little surprised, now that I think about it, that I don't see more notices of public auctions on Twitter. The cities still bury those on Page 56 of the Thrifty Nickel.

legal ads are the ony things keeping newspapers afloat

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

― death generator (lukas), Tuesday, November 22, 2022 10:57 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

jesus christ https://t.co/9meAdIJOqq pic.twitter.com/e8HtozKx8X

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) November 18, 2022

i know one person who has stopped working and is waiting to see how long it takes for him to get fired.

That’s the move

smash yes on the "i am hardcore" survey and then just log out of slack and email.

https://readinginbeddotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/peter-gibbons.jpg

woke up to DMs alerting me to this tweet Elon posted and deleted overnight. suffice it to say, yikes pic.twitter.com/GQgBxsXyic

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 23, 2022

apparently these shirts were created by the black employee resource group at Twitter and Jack Dorsey himself used to wear them. I imagine there are no black employees left at Twitter, or any employee resource groups either.

he deleted that post but is currently tripling down on it right now anyway

surely this will win the advertisers back

The only commentator I trust

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/22/dril-musk-twitter-future/

dont' make me read a taylor lorentz article

its pretty funny tbf

One of my tweets didn’t get any likes in 30 minutes, I declare twtr broken

I’m not sure that we’ve hit advertising bedrock just yet, but we’re like inches away at this point. pic.twitter.com/RbBqO0kD8q

— Garry Shambling (@alex_navarro) November 24, 2022

Without Twitter I’d never be exposed to the Life Dinner Mindset

Business Morons Invent Date Night pic.twitter.com/ON8EfMemaB

— DEI coordinator for sinaloa cartel (@Forever_Wario) November 23, 2022

Closure of Twitter Brussels office prompts online safety fears

Twitter has disbanded its entire Brussels office, sparking concerns among EU officials about whether the social media platform will abide by the bloc’s stringent new rules on policing online content.

Julia Mozer and Dario La Nasa, who were in charge of Twitter’s digital policy in Europe, left the company last week, according to five people with knowledge of the departures.

The executives had led the company’s effort to comply with the EU’s disinformation code and the bloc’s landmark Digital Services Act, which came into force last week and sets new rules on how Big Tech should keep users safe online.

Other Twitter executives in the small but vital Brussels office, seen as a crucial conduit to European policymakers, had left at the start of the month during company-wide cuts that removed around half of its 7,500-strong workforce.

Mozer and La Nasa survived the initial cull, but no longer work there after the company’s new owner Elon Musk issued an ultimatum last week for staff to commit to a “hardcore working culture”. It is unclear whether the pair resigned or were made redundant.

Mozer and La Nasa declined to comment. Twitter did not respond to requests for comment.

Musk supposedly fired Ikuhiro Ihara after a code review! Bizarre. I hope he enjoys the insane compensation he’ll inevitably receive from Google or Meta.

It’s true and he’s dishing:

MLエンジニアは元々そんなにガンガンコードコミットする職種じゃないし、買収前の社風だとテックリードになっちゃうとプランニングとかミーティングで手一杯になりがち。単純にコードのコミット行数を見てるという噂もあって、だとするとさもありなんという気もするな

— nabokov♹ (@nabokov7) November 24, 2022

ML engineers are not originally a type of job that commits so much code, and if you become a tech lead in the company culture before the acquisition, you tend to be full of planning and meetings. There is also a rumor that it simply looks at the number of committed lines of code, so if that's the case, I don't think so

When I thought that, I suddenly got a notice of dismissal!
You wrote that you were found to be incompetent as a result of recent code reviews, but you've never had a code review? w
I was planning to go back to Japan next week and work from Japan, but it turned into a complete winter vacation. Isn't the timing too much

It seems that several other people have been hit, so maybe Mr. Mask finally realized that the timeline should only be in the latest order? There is also a rumor that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXbLyi5wgeg

^don’t know if I remarked on the Written on the Wind reference before#onethread

Latest Tweets is way better than the algorithm feed but if Twitter really ditches the latter user engagement is gonna plummet.

The lines of code thing is stupid for many reasons but the fact that it leads you to fire every IC at staff or above who is doing their job well is my favorite.

It’s fucking real

amazing product sir but i'm slightly concerned about my car randomly slamming the brakes on the highway pic.twitter.com/iH7Hyj6FcN

— SᴡᴇᴇᴘTʜᴇLᴇɢ (@CobraKeiser) November 24, 2022

RW twitter is just a sea of snivelling hentchmen searching for their Bond villain

Ugh why do Elmo stans always have to call him sir, it is so simpy and weird.

In this guy's defense...

weird how just taking screencaps and dropping no @'s keep space karen's simps outta the replies lol

— SᴡᴇᴇᴘTʜᴇLᴇɢ (@CobraKeiser) November 25, 2022

The fact that if I see someone doing targeted harassment now I know there's 100% no point in trying to report does give me pause. I know that doing so previously rarely brought results but still.

Ugh why do Elmo stans always have to call him sir, it is so simpy and weird.