Two dirty birds with one bankruptcy?
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I’m hoping for a time when Musk looks at his landing rockets, and wistfully – painfully – envies them… being able to land successfully to joyous and victorious cheers.
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A question for our more technologically inclined mutants- how likely is that the twitters service will collapse without all the staff who are being shitcanned?
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Honestly? If they have a good enough system set up of alarms and maintenance and the like it can go on indefinitely with outside contractors… we don’t know who got let go or what departments they’re in. Twitter is basically feature complete at this point , and they’re hunting for new features to add on but not many of those have gotten much bite. Twitter themselves were planning on a massive layoff this year and next because of this anyway because of just how things are going with regards to their profitability and expenditures.
BUT… and a big but here… the social side of things that requires moderation… that side is going to suffer massively. And on the hardware side, if they have a major hardware situation, it’s going to be all hands on deck for however long it takes to get solved… probably up to and including cancelling PTO. And even then it could get real dicey.
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If true, that makes me oh so HAPPY.
Puffy is another explorative rich asshole who sorely deserves to be ‘less rich.’
Because he’s am obscenely rich White dude; that’s all.
(The bar is really fuckin’ low.)
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Huge PR spend on pretending he was brilliant. I long ago learned to back away from anyone saying he was a genius (or was personally responsible for innovation in companies he owned). There was never anything to say or hear in conversations with those people.
How anyone can Stan for an oligarch is beyond me. Makes me sick a little bit in my mouth just thinking of it.
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This situation is about to get a lot more shitty.
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Does Twitter own their hardware or are they on AWS or similar? Entirely possible they’ve contracted out the hardware issues to Amazon or so.
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Kind of like the plot to “The Producers,” complete with Nazis.
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Employees are sounding the alarm about how it could make getting reliable information on this site during Tuesday’s elections impossible.
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I mean, they’re on AWS , but AWS and services like that aren’t going to help twitter if twitter’s servers go down on the AWS infrastructure. They’re there to help make sure the hardware running those virtual servers and applications AWS offers stay up, but they’ll do nothing to help provision and monitor the services running on those servers. Imagine AWS and similar are like the game Factorio. AWS is responsible for the things you put on the game world operating as they’re supposed to, but the clients are responsible for designing the factory, making it run, and making it alarm out areas where it’s not running. And if biters come in and destroy a part of the factory (or in the AWS case a signfiicant number of virtual servers go down), that’s on Twitter to fix/repair/reboot/reprovision. And even if it is Amazon’s fault, the recovery is on the customers, not AWS, and that’d require people to do the recovery ops.
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“… joining the likes of Saudi Arabian Prince Awaleed bin Talal…”
Gee. No chance of (even more?) foreign interests steering Twitter. Nope. No chance of that.
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Thanks, I’d muddled “going into the server room to press the reboot button” with all the other server admin they do.
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I saw a segment on CNN on Musk’s claim. The reporter actually did her homework and reached out to companies who used to advertise on Twitter, and they said that it was not activists BUT Musk himself. They are super nervous advertising on a platform that when the owner spouts out crazy and/or hate-filled speech.
He’s really clueless.
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Is it just me wondering a little bit conspiracy-mindedly if this was the whole point? To sabotage one of modern communication’s (like it or not) key avenues of current event information just before one of the country’s most critical elections in modern history? We already know the Middle East has their claws in this to a certain extent, and the media is not going to be able to just suddenly ignore Twitter after having become so dependent on it, so gaining control of one of the planet’s chief rumormongering tools and gutting its safeguards mere days before pivotal Nov. 8 is quite advantageous if one was looking to influence an election.
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Perhaps at the behest of Putin, even?
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It might be a consolation prize, but I think the amount of planning that went into this is shown very clearly by Musk’s desperate attempts not to buy Twitter. People like him are dangerous because they are incredibly wealthy and impulsive and bigoted, not because they are four steps ahead of everyone. The problem isn’t that they have some secret plan to checkmate you via extra dimensions, it’s that their tantrums are liable to break the board.
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