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>>ZacnyL+(OP)
Speaking from very painful, personal experience, few things are more agitating than being forced to execute on something you fully know is a horrible idea, especially when you tried and failed to communicate this fact to the individual pushing you to go against your best judgement.

Even more so when that person later loudly proclaims that they never made such a request, even when provided with written proof.

I can of course not say whether the people currently working at Twitter did warn that the recent measures could have such major side effects, but I would not be surprised in the slightest, considering their leadership's mode of operation.

Even as someone who very much detests what Twitter has become over the last few months and in fact did not like Twitter before the acquisition, partly due to short format making nuance impossible, but mostly for the effect Tweets easy embeddability had on reporting (3 Tweets from random people should not serve as the main basis for an article in my opinion), I must say, I feel very sorry for the people forced to work at that company under that management.

>>Topfi+Ew
That's nothing. Instead hopping on the bandwagon hating on the thing we all use and care about, a situation where you would know a solution but are not allowed to act because of fear of even trying anything is so much worse. Especially when you know of it for a very long time and are not even allowed to try, while also being ostracized and being "that guy" for suggesting it repeatedly. Talking of different technical and business approaches to things where the "original" still somehow works but is slowly killing the company. Been there, done that.

But when a higher-up so clearly takes responsibility of something that is risky but deemed necessary, it provides for a lot better space to also respond to any potential problems that pop up, while not needing to suffer snarky comments in hindsight as a dev.

Of course something like this is easier to hate on ...

>>maxlin+6G1
Don't use Twitter and don't care in the slightest if it goes down.

Will admit that seeing a billionaire go mental is funny. Petty I know.

>>Weylan+gN1
Didn't ask and go stuff your worthless ignorance somewhere else. It's people like you why we can't have nice things.