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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
I currently can't read any tweets from https://twitter.com/elonmusk because it's just said "something went wrong. try reloading" for the last 8 hours or so.

I'd consider that deteriorated service.

also just out of curiosity while trying to find historical outage data I found this article.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/twitter-e...

Last july (before elon took over), the site was apparently down for 45 minutes and "one of the site’s longest outages for years". Today it's been basically barely usable for most of the day.

>>termin+eF
Parent is suggesting that gradual deterioration is occurring. I'm trying to figure out if that's what's happening, or if this is simply a bug that hit production (possibly due to the higher rate of product changes, or otherwise.)

It's hard to find nuance and information anymore. It's as if all we have to work with is politics and hatred.

>>qweras+6H
Fair enough, I'm sorry for being rude with my answer. For what it's worth, I don't think any of us outside of twitter will truly know if things have actually deteriorated or it's just a one-off bug. At this point though, I don't think there's much difference since the effect is the same.