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
Elon 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
βSome parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We fired 6,300 people and stopped paying the AWS billβ
Johan Pelck Olsen
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 canβt 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 β¦
Martin Vermeer FCD@caseynewton Gone emerita
Jason Allen 
David Penfold 
@caseynewton I'd post that on Twitter, but...
Dan@caseynewton Iβm betting Tweetdeck does not come back. At least initially. He will blame it on their βAPI upgradesβ. When in reality it doesnβt 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 doesnβt 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 @KCRWβs 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. π€£
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
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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" π€£ππ€£π
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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 π΄πͺπΊ@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, π§ Mechanic@caseynewton A link would be helpful (have you tried Linky for Mastodon...on the App Store.)
