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kate conger Dec 29, 2022

Currently at Twitter:
- Seattle office faces eviction
- people are bringing their own toilet paper to work as janitorial services are cut
- workers scrambled to deal with the aftermath of a data center shutdown on Christmas Eve
(un-paywalled link)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/technology/twitter-elon-musk.html?unlocked_article_code=VgRUNNm_WiVdC4UQEMlklKIzkCg-CdCSZscqTNvGoiusn7if4Ovf4XYsLnMqfUOyJzZmN-zJDGl5je3ZZhzn0thD1RGC2qWb_Bq7LHrAhzBDsTZYsUJqrqHyC5u6xpETToPQb5PKgWFVuoS6D8aTfzR2C7cV_HlQ6lQoecldCGptqAPeTr1qvpna6d15I4GmcKSKtil5rDcqpEaDtl_okEOw_voUSR4lYgUfK_UX8R2fHemvdTcWWoKbGLssrrp-9KuCZXToEcjuxT6ivu8ZR0fr4khjqCTM2sqDqPhL8kuvGRDmyFzanNGojEU1rkd8ayzIqkeNE3UDRGv8XDs&smid=share-url

Elon Musk’s Cuts at Twitter? A Data Center, Janitors, Some Toilet Paper

Elon Musk has reduced the company to a bare-bones operation, and employees are under a “zero-based budgeting” mandate to justify any spending.

The New York Times

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Erik Nygren

Dec 30, 2022

@cong It looks like twitter.com expires in less than a month. I really hope they're paying their registrar and have it set to auto-renew. I know I get antsy when operationally critical domains have less than a year on them.

Domain Name: twitter.com
Registrar URL: www.cscprotectsbrands.com
Updated Date: 2022-01-17T01:08:20Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2023-01-21T16:28:17Z

Maybe they just auto renew a few days beforehand (eg Jan 17) but that's cutting it close.

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John Kristoff

@cong @nygren It is quite common for the expiration date to be updated near the renewal date. Watch all the edu names. You'd think hundreds of institutions are at risk of losing their domain over their summer break. I'd be shocked if the registrar Twitter uses doesn't automatically protect them from such a thing.