NEW: Elon Musk sent a Signal message ordering his staff to aid in the Twitter Files: "please give Bari [Weiss] full access to everything at Twitter. No limits at all.”

That triggered a frenzy inside Twitter, which was under a decade-old FTC order. IT staff refused to onboard Weiss, worried Twitter would be breaking the law.

Days later, two executives were fired.

"These guys did amazing damage,” a former employee told me of the Musk subordinates running the company.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/24/elon-musk-twitter-meltdown-tesla/

Twitter brings Elon Musk’s genius reputation crashing down to earth

Musk went down conspiracy rabbit holes and sank Tesla's stock with his behavior. And he was confronted with a chorus of boos in the cradle of the tech industry.

The Washington Post

@faizsays

almost since day one, people have been saying twitter will collapse, etc etc

yet when I log on, I see zero change
and the % of twitter users who have left for say #mastodon is a tiny %, and probably mostly lefty types who advertisers don't want any way

I'm not saying I know much, but **so far** for 90% of users, who care about Rihanna or futball, twitter is exactly the same, no ???

@Hello57 @faizsays To many passengers on the Titanic, things were "exactly the same" up until the point when they weren't.

Nobody is saying that Twitter would collapse within days of Musk's takeover. But many of us with experience in the field do not see a profitable path forward for Twitter if it operates with a skeleton crew while disregarding basic local laws and regulations around the world.

@hu_logic Shit keeps breaking on a bunch of more advanced features like search; a few days ago they broke some front-end stuff in the Android app. That it's held together so long is a tribute to the processes and systems the "woke dead weight" he fired built, but the cracks are showing... So it'll be a long slow decline, vs a catastrophic failure.

The exodus of interesting voices has already made it unfun for many people, but we will never know the real numbers who've left.

@Hello57 @faizsays