Casey NewtonSo today links stopped working on Twitter lol
Somehow my Mastodon server (mastodon.social) also went down as this was happening. We used to have proper social networks in this country I swear to god
David Allen KellyElon and the Goons spent the past four months working to identify the best, most critical, most TECHNICAL workers at the company, and now the result is that links don't work when you click them
“Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We fired 6,300 people and stopped paying the AWS bill”
nev@caseynewton [Image description: screenshot of a February 2023 Megan McArdle opinion column in the Washington Post, "How Elon Musk fired Twitter staff and broke nothing" (https://archive.is/CmfMs)] #Alt4You
Blake C. Stacey@nev @caseynewton I think another valid image description would be "wah-wah trombone noise in headline form"
gunadiAnd now I can’t even access the website. All I get is a json response.
fevzi@gunadi @caseynewton I really dislike these articles, "such and such and unexpected outcome" to lure you in and usually it is all BS. For me it is very simple, like the laws of physics.
"For every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction."
Woke in PDX Fella
Michael@caseynewton well, you kinda have to post it here since you can't post it on Twitter.
mcmjolnir@caseynewton She is such a clown.
Realworldrj@caseynewton from the queen of well-aged hot takes
slyborg
Dave LaMacchia@caseynewton note that both twitter.com and tweetdeck.com are busted …
Martin Vermeer FCD@caseynewton Gone emerita
Jason Allen 
David Penfold 
@caseynewton I'd post that on Twitter, but...
Dan@caseynewton I’m betting Tweetdeck does not come back. At least initially. He will blame it on their “API upgrades”. When in reality it doesn’t show ads and he wants the money.
Then, when enough major corps and big follower accounts complain he will bring it back. Because he likely has no idea how anyone uses Twitter and doesn’t care.
Albert Lee@caseynewton How exactly I keep getting told that "nothing interesting happens in your part of the world" while columns like these get published, the world wonders
Sunset & Fire@caseynewton I read that at the time hoping it was ironic. It was not. That's when I stopped reading her stuff.
serklarvel@caseynewton Tesla's engineers are doing a great job at Twitter, they are crashing the site just as the cars
paul
davidnewman@caseynewton For reasons passing understanding, I still listen @KCRW’s Left, Right, and Center podcast. Ms. McArdle is one in a series of recent right-wing regulars who seem to be working really hard at avoiding fact-based argument.
James Sayer@caseynewton The pseudo-critical McArdle is always good for a laugh. 🤣
Alex Zajac@caseynewton Has Ms. McArdle ever had a good op-ed? I can't remember one
Old Man Mike@caseynewton payroll PR fake journalist hack
@caseynewton Haha, they really have it out for the pitchbot.
c.reider 
@caseynewton you can always count on her to be wrong
Shawn Levasseur
Colopen@caseynewton she's always racing to be the wrongest person lol
Dan Gillmor@caseynewton She is one of the most reliable contrary indicators I've ever seen.
@dangillmor @caseynewton that headline was incorrect before the article was published. She or her editors should have consulted one of their software dev friends to confirm tif that statement was true or false.
Wanda Nelson@caseynewton "Broke nothing" 🤣😂🤣😂
💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱@caseynewton
I Googled the article and look at the suggested alternative search
I Googled the article and look at the suggested alternative search
Norman@caseynewton his solution: fire even more people https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1632942281362636801?t=kwJjyxKRdDzVcfRB5KN4JQ&s=19
@caseynewton haha where is this atricle?
muxauy 🚴🇪🇺@caseynewton love it how she apparently assumes the fired staff somehow personally held the service together on a daily basis, smugly pointing out that nothing broke the second the first fired employee stood up from their desk
DrBob, 🧠 Mechanic@caseynewton A link would be helpful (have you tried Linky for Mastodon...on the App Store.)
Jason Cipriani@caseynewton They were at, what, 7500 employees?
kexline@mrcippy @caseynewton Sounds about right.
I mean, practically every business has chaff, but that's just bonkers. And yet they still retain one person with massively negative output.
joelitics@caseynewton fully broken for logged out users, I believe
@caseynewton need to the NN in the back burner next to cybertruck
Steven Savage@caseynewton I'm thinking of Musk as our last warning that a lot of rich people who inherited money and want more don't know how to run stuff that benefits society. Because he's just the amped up version of what we've been coping with for ages, and he hides it worse.
ToAllPointsWest@caseynewton Details, details /s
Stark@caseynewton and rent. Let's not forget how they aren't paying rent, but if someone else were to do it they would end up on the street.
AutisticMumTo3@caseynewton
It would be surprising if there wasn't parts of Twitter that weren't working properly. Musk has totally screwed over Twitter.
It would be surprising if there wasn't parts of Twitter that weren't working properly. Musk has totally screwed over Twitter.
Lizzie@caseynewton Pictures and gifs not working either. Incredible scenes.
sigi714@Lizzie @caseynewton Back to the roots ;)
louisgray@caseynewton Zuck is behind all this somehow.
menotti
Justin Derrick@44 @caseynewton The inability to recognize his own contributions to the failures is breathtaking in it’s scope and depth. It’s also textbook narcissism. I’m happy I’ve left it behind.
Duncan Blues@JustinDerrick @44 @caseynewton #Twitter feels like a Tesla with missing hood, three missing doors and a wheel and another one on fire unflinchingly hurtling down the freeway at 120 mph with it's driver being dragged behind by the safety belt, detached steering wheel in hand screaming "Everything's under control! We're right on track!" 🤷
@44 my understanding is that he’s been giving every team a week at most to make major changes. When you try to move that fast, you break stuff. This is absolutely his fault (aside from being a terrible leader who thinks he’s an expert in everything)
Paul Haddad 
Ben@caseynewton At first I thought the system was messing with me when I tried uploading a video, and it turns out that playing videos and viewing images doesn't work anymore either!
Bruce Mirken@caseynewton That sure gives me confidence in driving a car built by #ElonMusk! 😱