Dare ObasanjoJan 20, 2023

550 engineers and the only meaningful things they've shipped in 3 months are moving around stuff in the UI

- Home/Latest to For You/Following tab
- View count field now exposed
- Charging money for blue checks

It's impressive how little's been done.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer-than-550-full-time-engineers.html

Twitter is down to fewer than 550 full-time engineers

Before Musk led a $44 billion leveraged buyout of Twitter last year, Twitter's headcount stood at about 7,500 employees.

CNBC
Show threadSean
@carnage4life there’s been a theory going around (sorry if it was from you) that they lost too much backend talent and can’t actually safely do stuff there right now.
Jan 20, 2023 at 11:14pmMetatext