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>>ZacnyL+(OP)
I think we're about at the point where the people who predicted chaos at twitter after Elon basically fired most of the experienced engineers have been proven correct. The duct tape is all coming apart at the seams now.

It isn't quite as decisive as a submarine imploding, and ceasing to exist, but it has turned into a brightly burning tirefire.

>>lamont+yx
I dunno. We are several months out after the major layoffs. Maybe some very recent bad decisions were made internally that pared back too far, but I think Musk has long since been proven correct that the core platform could function on a fraction of the workforce it had at the time of takeover.

>>lr4444+yB
Complex systems like Twitter don't break overnight when you lay off the talented engineers.

They deteriorate piece-by-piece, potentially over the course of many months, until the compounding effects of these problems and the growing technical debt overwhelms the team that they have left.

>>simonw+FC
Which pieces have deteriorated?

>>qweras+jD
- Spam protection is non-existent. An NFL post showed an explicit sex act as the top response for over two weeks before it was deleted. https://twitter.com/schuh_dan/status/1657777263817940996 this was the tweet, though I don't have an exact record of when it was deleted. You can also look at https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1674876982260273152 for another example, though the porn spam has only been there for 24 hours this time.

- Outages really are common: https://twitter.com/altluu/status/1577806809217503232