Another expose on twitter internals:

-Elon is on meth 24/7 and running things like a cartoon caricature of steve jobs, making everyone do 80 hour weeks and firing them for cause if they say the wrong word

-Twitter now has 1 principal engineer (he fired the other one for telling him he’s not popular)

-Elon also suggested banning everyone not from the US or Japan to cut costs and make the whole thing a subscription service

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-tesla-crisis-mood-intensity-2023-2

wisdom

https://www.theblockbot.com/show-blocks/9BjDYX6HOyx7e4_4NT6-Y4YylY3UmpojDxvo6Zu8

Damn, the man is desperate

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/02/twitter-allows-weed-ads-the-move-could-alienate-its-top-advertisers/

jesus christ he's doing the dril tweet irl

this is all so pathetic

really funny that he's claiming a 'review' proves it's false but not actually posting any data

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/16/elon-musk-twitter/

he is so mad

https://thechainsaw.com/business/industry/elon-musk-tweets-personal-boost/

the reduced engagement simply cannot be a result of people being driven off of the platform by elon's behavior or elon's shitty fucking tweets. he's posting just as well as he always has, and he has a hundred million followers. how many folllowers do you have??? aha exactly, not that many friend journalist!!! gottem

he literally can't face the reality that he simply is a repellent man baby with the worlds thinnest skin, he has to insist that no he's actually been posting bangers this whole time

so pissed about paying those service costs and couldn't prove definitively that the vendors were explicitly scamming the company that he's scrapping an industry wide best practices feature

what could go wrong

Twitter: had all the big mainstream brands that you'd see advertising on TV during the superbowl (but no longer)

Instragram: all the ads are for fake face creams or real pyramid schemes

Elon thinking Insta was something to emulate explains a lot

Ah, figures that Elon firing most of the workers got rid of everyone fighting the actual SMS fraud so he got hit by a big bill and now he thinks paywalling sms 2fa will fix it (it won't)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1626999229401948163.html

Someone pointed out that Biden went to the Ukraine today and it didn't trend once despite posts being liked by 50k +.

Elmo is such a little bitch lol

if scolding stone is the best he's got maybe it's good that he usually steals others jokes

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tesla-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-investigation-elon-musk-1234590697/

pushing half-developed features to prod is fine, just add a flag to hide them in the clientside javascript

this person has already accomplished more than geohotz ever managed

lmao, what a gross stain of a human

Also Zuby continues to be this weird crazy nexus of "Guy who utterly irrelevant and inconsequential even on Twitter, yet all the Worst People You Know are real big fans of him somehow"

here is a nice pithy encapsulation of bazinga logic

maybe he should run less companies if his goal is to get us to mars

maybe he's not actually that interested in getting us to mars if he's running several companies at once and they're all flailing about randomly

elon stopped paying his salesforce bills and slack died

https://fortune.com/2023/02/08/twitter-cost-cutting-software-salesforce-elon-musk/

imagine all the institutional knowledge that just went up in smoke, whoops!

good thing they still have all their longtime/senior employees with things locked up tight in the brain vau-- oh. oh no.

I'm sure there was no important automated services that relied on it either

If I’m slack I keep the lights on to keep racking up payments and fuck over Elon then sue lmao

https://www.platformer.news/p/new-cracks-emerge-in-elon-musks-twitter

can't wait for Matt Taibbi to post a 42-tweets long thread about this

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-twitter-no-transparency-reports-government-data-1234684941/

"That same day, Jira — a tool Twitter uses to track everything from progress on feature updates to regulatory compliance — also stopped working. With no way to chat and no code to ship, most engineers took the day off.

Jira access was restored on Thursday.

Slack remained down at the company on Thursday. While some employees communicated over email, others essentially took a second day off."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/24/23613288/twitter-slack-jira-outages-performance-degradation

"Negative feedback is a good thing, which is why everyone who likes me enough to pay a monthly fee gets their replies boosted to the top"

also if there are scammer accounts he knows about why did he just block them instead of having the accounts removed