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

New cracks emerge in Elon Musk's Twitter

Jira went down, Slack's gone, and site performance is degraded. What's next?

Platformer
Elon Musk’s Twitter Goes Dark on Government Data Grabs

“That shit went out the window right after Elon came in,” one former staffer says of Twitter’s previously routine transparency reports

Rolling Stone

"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

Twitter shut off its internal Slack, and now ‘everyone is barely working’

Elon Musk’s Twitter faces more problems as Jira goes down, Slack disappears, and employees stop working. What comes next as the site’s performance gets worse?

The Verge

"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

Elon's probably going to crack down on mass blocking soon, especially with the increasing popularity of the twitter blue blocklist.

It owns that how shit as jack was as a person regarding the worst people on twitter, that the current lead is literally a junkie obsessing over all the worst aspects of being a serious twitter power via constantly checking his views and impressions and likes every day compulsively to see how many people like him and has made a hell of his own making.

A billionaire takes over the “public square” and suddenly there is less oversight of him, politicians, and far right nazis in said square 🤔

https://www.propublica.org/article/politwoops-deleted-tweets-twitter-politicians-musk

After a Decade of Tracking Politicians’ Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More

Whether officials were deleting an embarrassing post or just correcting a typo, Politwoops tracked them all. But service changes made after Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter have rendered it impossible for us to continue tracking these tweets.

ProPublica

"No you see i did make a post about trump doing it" (makes a 52 post thread about censoring the right even while trump was in power.)

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-white-house-pressure-disney-censor-jimmy-kimmel-1234686853/

Trump White House Pressured Disney to Censor … Jimmy Kimmel

The Trump White House pressured Disney to censor Jimmy Kimmel after the then-president was angered by the late-night host making fun of him.

Rolling Stone

don't have to pay bills if you don't have a department of payments

https://www.reuters.com/article/twitter-layoffs-idUSKBN2V0038

lmao she ate dirt for Musk and got shown the door

Twitter lays off 10% of current workforce - NYT

Twitter Inc <a href="https://www.reuters.com/companies/TWTR.MX" target="_blank">(TWTR.MX)</a> has laid off at least 200 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, the New York Times <a href="https://nyti.ms/3SxfUSo" target="_blank">reported</a> late on Sunday, in its latest round of job cuts since Elon Musk took over the micro-blogging site last October.

Reuters
Elon’s too busy being a Scott Adams reply guy and simp

“Twitter's employment agreement says these will be individually arbitrated, so that's what we're doing," Liss-Riordan said. "We're looking forward to the day when Elon Musk comes to his senses and realizes it's much cheaper to pay people what they are owed.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-faces-130-million-legal-cost-twitter-severance-2023-2

Elon Musk faces $130 million cost to fight over Twitter severance

Thousands of former Twitter employees are fighting for better severance pay through arbitration, a costly process for employers.

Insider
Elon loves you
Reminder, Musk gutted the teams that handle this shit

This guy figured out how to crack the For You engagement algorithm

https://www.garbageday.email/p/i-remembered-how-awful-it-is-to-go

I remembered how awful it is to go viral

Read to the end for some really good horse content

Garbage Day

Twitter will do great under the scam tunnels guy

https://www.platformer.news/p/in-latest-round-of-twitter-cuts-some

In latest round of Twitter cuts, some see hints of its next CEO

Is the job Steve Davis' to lose? PLUS: A smart new tool to fight child exploitation online

Platformer
Twitter Outages Are on the Rise Amid Elon Musk’s Job Cuts

Elon Musk’s repeated job cuts are stoking new fears that there aren’t enough people to triage Twitter’s problems.

The New York Times

apparently the rev share system is actually live, at least for some users?

initial results are not promising though lol

Twitter down: Thousands report timeline not working amid apparent outage

Twitter appeared to experience an outage early Wednesday. Thousands of users reported problems starting around 5:15 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector

USA TODAY

Me, owning you: "I wasn't even SHOWN anything that would go against the narrative that Elon Musk wants me to push!"

Lmfao, that’s not the slam dunk taibbi thinks it is.

“Uh sir they didn’t show me the files that made trump look worse”

all is well! remain calm!

How did Rupert Murdoch get secret information from the Saudis that could potentially have a major effect on the US economy in a negative way? Mystery of the century there.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitters-revenue-adjusted-earnings-fell-about-40-in-month-of-december-ee91f1eb

Twitter’s Revenue, Adjusted Earnings Fell About 40% in Month of December

The company recently made a first interest payment to banks that lent $13 billion to help pay for Elon Musk’s buyout, people familiar with the matter said

The Wall Street Journal

it amazes me Musk thinks birdsite can threaten a company that's part of FAANG. fucking get out

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musk-delayed-paying-twitters-amazon-cloud-bill-sparking-ad-threat

Musk Delayed Paying Twitter’s Amazon Cloud Bill, Sparking Ad Threat

Elon Musk is running into an obstacle in his relentless drive to cut costs at Twitter: some of the same vendors that Twitter is squeezing to save money are also its advertising clients. As recently as last month, Twitter sales and marketing staff were told by their colleagues that Amazon had ...

The Information

can't share revenue if there isn't any

ofc even if he was making money elom would use accounting tricks to keep from paying out any of this shit

https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/3/23623927/twitter-blue-ad-revenue-one-month-missing

Elon Musk’s ad revenue split for Twitter Blue is still missing, one month later

A month ago, Elon Musk said that Twitter had started sharing ad revenue with creators. So far, there are very few signs that’s actually been happening.

The Verge
Elon's a master of 2, 4, and 5
🥳

long tweets are getting even longer lol

Fuck yes, make it long enough to galtse people

Sacking the kiddie porn team is a special kind of evil

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64804007

"Current and former employees of the company tell BBC Panorama that features intended to protect Twitter users from trolling and harassment are proving difficult to maintain, amid what they describe as a chaotic working environment in which Mr Musk is shadowed by bodyguards at all times."

Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk

Current and former employees of the company say there are serious ramifications from mass lay-offs.

BBC News

"He believes this lack of trust is betrayed by the level of security Mr Musk surrounds himself with.

"Wherever he goes in the office, there are at least two bodyguards - very bulky, tall, Hollywood movie-[style] bodyguards. Even when [he goes] to the restroom," he tells me.

He thinks for Mr Musk it's about money. He says cleaning and catering staff were all sacked - and that Mr Musk even tried to sell the office plants to employees."

lmfao

Article: elon musk has made Twitter a safe haven for pedophiles and other sex abusers

Elon: sorry not sorry 🤣🤣

"Anyone who can best the CEO in hand-to-hand combat" may seem barbaric and harsh, but the Delaware Chancery Court has operated under these traditions since time immemorial

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bodyguards-follow-elon-musk-everywhere-at-twitter-hq-even-to-restroom-says-engineer

Bodyguards Follow Elon Musk Everywhere at Twitter HQ, Even to Restroom, Says Engineer

The bodyguards are “tall” and “bulky” like something out of a Hollywood movie, a Twitter engineer said.

The Daily Beast

"'you have been found guilty by the court of musk, based on the compelling evidence of 'my friend said so'. the sentence is death."

A group of gaggling paid for blue check mark idiots cheering on Elon Musk suspending the creator of a video because they didn’t want some clout chasing account using it without permission is really a perfect encapsulation of how art is treated in general in America. How fucking dire

yeah I totally remember all those times that Twitter shit itself to death on a monthly basis before Musk bought it, thinking back to all those times that jack shrugged and complained about his company's brittle coding stack, definitely a thing that happened all the time back in 2021 and before

also lol when has a complete code refactor ever successfully solved these sort of structural problems? You can't program around having fired all your competent coders.

Getting chirped by a hockey mascot
If there was ever a phrase that is a dead giveaway that you no longer have a functional testing environment and push all your code changes directly to the live site, it's definitely "a small API change had massive ramifications"

little baby bitch boy musk afraid of his own employees lol

Kinda wondering if Elon is just suffering from amphetamine paranoia or if he's actually worried about getting bonesawed by the Saudis who he owes all that money to.

Probably both.

they are getting paid in exposure

Twitter is only one website therefore it only needs one site reliability engineer

https://www.platformer.news/p/how-a-single-engineer-brought-down

How a single engineer brought down Twitter on Monday

The high cost of cutting expenses

Platformer
who's gonna oust him at twitter though? he dissolved the board.

gonna post all my content on the site that won't take DMCA requests seriously, fuck yeah

and surely the guy that won't pay rent will pay me for my content

Who would have thought that Elon would rush to the defense of people who copy/paste other people's stuff and pass it off as their own?

i'm sure the replies are full of empathetic folks offering words of support, now to scroll down...

this guy was iceland's person of the year in 2022, has done more productive work and more good for humanity than elon by a wide margin

and is currently getting mocked by the richest man in the world and his hooting apes as though he's an Engineer-1 who's trying to bluster through a code review (which would still be incredibly assholish behavior by elon and co)

Does elon delete these tweets when he realizes he's cry-laughing at a person with muscular dystrophy who has won national awards both for his design work and also his material contributions to equality and disability causes? Nope.

This is an incredible level of shitty behavior and being an abhorrent human being, even for Elon. Holding his contract hostage after taking his company and making him grovel in public to determine if he gets paid what his contract owes is some next level psychopathy.

This guy took a salary for the sale of his company so he’d pay the maximum tax in Iceland vs a lump sum, so he’s probably owed a lot of money.

I’m sure with the way courts have ruled in Elon’s favor this guy will get what he’s owed.

Elon has just made an enemy of the entire nation of Iceland.

"After my website completely shat the bed for 2 hours today, I decided to pick a fight and publicly humiliate a disabled former employee, who is also a well known and highly esteemed philanthropist, for the crime of asking why no-one in HR had even replied to his email asking if he was fired.

Just another day as a gigachad CEO"

peep the replies if you wanna see some seriously depraved bullshit from the musk stans
From Iceland — Elon Musk Mocks Iceland In SNL Sketch

What do you do when you’re a billionaire and signed up for a sketch on Saturday Night Live? Right –...

The Reykjavik Grapevine

"Sir, do you even know what a Figma is?"

"No, what's a Figma with you? Rolling laughing emoji with tears streaming down it's face."

"Sir, did you just--"

"You're fired. You fucking moron."

Love saving my company $500k and sucking on the pudgy toes of my favorite CEO in exchange for a grand slam breakfast

Not at all surprised by musk's treatment of Halli as it seems very typical of his personality. I find it a lot harder to read all the musk sycophants jumping in to insult him. just so fucking gross

Holy fucking shit if that isn't clear cut discrimination and fucking hate crimes against someone disabled.

Like dude just daily somehow keeps digging fucking deeper into the bedrock and keeps fucking finding new lows.

Just fuck you Elon, fuck you.

He is genuinely the biggest piece of shit in the world, jesus christ.

I get why that kid pushed him down a flight of stairs and put him in the hospital in elementary school now.

motherfucker seriously believes designers have to code

Here's some background on Hali's alleged deal with Twitter, taken from ResetEra's Musk thread:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/elon-musk-twitter-drama-ot-let%E2%80%99s-keep-it-here-parody-%F0%9F%94%B5-official-%EA%95%A4.649272/page-631#post-102287260

Sounds like he's owed a rather large amount of money over time as compensation for pre-Musk Twitter acquiring his company, and Musk is trying to stiff him

Elon Musk Twitter Drama |OT| Let’s keep it here. (Parody) 🔵 Official ꕤ

yeah, that's how code works my guy Oh so the company you bought for $40 billion has bad engineering and poor ad targetting and tanking relationships with advertisers. Maybe you should have vetted it first?

ResetEra

This information matches what's been reported in this BBC article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64871183

I sincerely hope that the dude has a contract like resetera states and it then gets a goddamn country to sue Twitter for breaking contract and drags him over the coals. Dude deserves way better then how's he's being treated

Worker asks Elon Musk on Twitter: Have I been fired?

In a viral Twitter thread, Halli Thorleifsson is asked by Elon Musk what work he has done for the firm.

BBC News

The guy didn't even insult Elon or slight him at all, and Elon just openly, in front of God, the Meme Community, and everyone viciously shit talked this dude for daring to speak to him.

This is a new nadir, even for Elon. Proper Twilight Zone shit seeing that all play out in public. Of all the things that have happened this in particular has left me reeling, like it’s too surreal to have actually happened in our reality.

Dude trying to find out if he’s still employed because no one will answer him and he’s basically treated like a cat toy by Musk and his stans. He wasn't badmouthing Elon or attacking Twitter, continually said that Elon had every right to lay him off, etc. The reaction of Musk and his fans is insane and so defensive. Right to victim mode, the poor helpless billionaire being bullied by the mean disabled former employee.

What is a poor Elon to do but make a complete ass of himself in public instead of just sorting this internally, like a normal company would?

Why Apple and co would continue to advertise on this platform is beyond me. There comes a point where the public antics of the very ingratiated figurehead reflect on you if you’re putting money in their/his pocket.

Oh hey look, it gets worse. The guy posts a picture of himself, in a wheelchair because...well he's in a wheelchair, and the Elon fans' response is about as level headed and friendly as you would expect

I did an instant follow on the Icelandic dude and he is slamming Elon into the ground

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633082707835080705.html

Thread by @iamharaldur on Thread Reader App

@iamharaldur: Hi again @elonmusk 👋 I hope you are well. I’m fine too. I’m thankful for your interest in my health. But since you mentioned it, I wanted to give you more info. I have muscular...

The Elon stans are even worse than you could imagine

His lawyer must've given him the go-ahead to drag Elon through the mud

Get his ass

remember how he made a joke about the automated new manager training notification he got after buying twitter? maybe he should have taken it

then again they probably wouldn't put in "Don't fire someone and then in a public forum say you did it because you think they're faking a disability" because no one thought it needed to be said

Just fake news all around, spread by a nazi, then boosted by Musk

-the woman in the video he's replying to is a Dutch far-right provocateur
-the farmer she's talking about isn't a farmer and doesn't live in the province he claims to live in
-he stole the story from facebook where it was posted by another guy, an actual farmer who was also lying
-No farmers have been forced to stop, and certainly not for the reason she claims (Dutch Debunk: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633057193535631361.html )

Truly inscrutable politics~

Thread by @tiesjoosten on Thread Reader App

@tiesjoosten: Hoi Eva, Ik zag onderstaande tweet (4,5 mln views inmiddels). Samen met @jsdaalder heb ik even onderzocht wat hier aan de hand is. Spoiler: je verhaal klopt niet. Een draadje🧵 1) Misschien heb je het...…

@cspam I guess he didn't attend it.
@cspam When Musk stated that he asked for the green light of lawyers I am starting to believe he either lied or they did not expect him to tweet himself into a case of publicly discriminating a disabled employee 😅
@cspam @chancerydaily Elon’s too stupid to see this is a trap and he will fall right into it
Dwarf Ninja Ukifune Jinnai’s Toilet Assassination Of Uesugi Kenshin - Ancient Pages

Being small-sized does occasionally have advantages, especially if you are a Ninja who has been sent on a deadly mission. Sometimes referred to as the Dwarf toilet Ninja, Ukifune Jinnai did not let his height prevent him from achieving his goals. As a matter of fact, he succeeded where others had failed.

Ancient Pages

@cspam What the heck is wrong with these people?

If these were all Twitter Blue subscribers I could write these people off as just random sycophants. But they’re not. Every one of these people is “legacy verified”.

Richard Cooke, who arguably is the most nakedly awful person in those images aside from Musk, is from what I can tell an author featured in such outlets as The New Republic. You’d expect him of all of these people to at least be able to do a little research and figure out that who Haraldur is and why Musk is lying through this teeth, but I guess he just preferred to reveal his true colors instead.

Looking at Boghossian, I thought I recognized the name. Turns out I did: he was part of the trio behind the “Sokal Squared” hoax. At the time that came out I thought the fact they were able to get blatantly nonsensical articles published in journals for certain very specific fields carried some weight as indicating a possible lack of rigor in said fields [1]. However, it seems every one of those three people has fallen off into fatuous (or worse) territory since then. It’s really disappointing seeing Boghossian sucking up to Musk, especially like this.

I have no idea who Nick Flor is IRL, but I remember seeing him and I remember him being a jerk as well, so him being one isn’t surprising.

[1]: Please note that I absolutely do not support the “culture wars” or the right’s authoritarian crusade against “woke-ism”. Assuming the Sokal Squared hoax is valid, it is so only as a criticism of a lack of rigor in those specific fields at the time, as was the original Sokal hoax with sociology around 2000. Since the original Sokal hoax, sociology has massively improved in rigor; I would be surprised if that hasn’t also happened in the fields Sokal Squared affected. Moreover, lack of rigor in a field is a problem that should be addressed by dialogue in the academic community, not by political action; indeed, government attempts to legislate the bounds of academic discourse, especially for partisan or ideological reasons, should always be viewed with extreme skepticism. Finally, there are a lot more important things people should be worrying about; indeed, lack of rigor in obscure fields of the humanities is probably the least concerning thing affecting academia at the moment — and right-wing attacks on education and research probably the most concerning.

@cspam “As I read it, I kept asking: ‘What code was he writing at Twitter?’ Zero. He ‘lead efforts’”

This dude is literally describing Elon

@cspam Read the whole thing. Musk is such an asshole

@cspam

Elon's gonna need a rocket just get out the crater this guy is putting him in.

Elon thinks he’s dismissing some random visa having engineer and not like a person the entire Icelandic government will get behind since they’re seen as a national hero when it comes to a lawsuit. Keep going Elon! Stick that dick deeper in that pencil sharpener. Maybe say how you just don’t like disabled people and don’t hire them for this reason next to really get your lawyers drinking
@cspam The money is one point, and a valid one. But why aren't they mortified at being seen in the same context as this monster? Heck, I am mortified at living on the same planet and sharing 99%-plus of DNA with him...
@cspam Wait... Musk has FANS?!
@cspam He's flailing. He has no idea how to fix the mess Twitter is in. And he'll get worse once Tesla stock starts to decline again, which it will once the market realizes that the Cybertruck can't stop a slide in margins at an already greatly overvalued company.
@ThisAccountKillsFascists @cspam also, when was the last time they actually introduced a new model? Like the model s is 10 plus years old at this point isn't it? Isn't that their flagship product basically? Or the y? No other car company could get away without refreshing their model lineup So infrequently.

@tom4okstate I know I'm weird, but that's one thing that I like about Tesla and where I wish them success. Do we really need to change styles so often in cars (or ever once we've found a good design)? Do these so-called model year enhancements really add anything useful? I think we'd all be better off if car companies didn't have to invest so much in this BS and shut down their lines so frequently.

I know it won't happen, and this will ultimately bite Tesla in the ass. But that's what I wish.

@cspam Likely will drag until Twitter declare bankruptcy and he won’t get what he's due.
@cspam another victim of the "everything as code" movement; sad

@cspam “this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work … was simultaneously tweeting up a storm. Can't say I have a lot of respect for that.”

He really said this without an iota of irony

@cspam

My mom had a line about certain bullies (these stair-pushers in this case) after she met the victim (Elon): "you were wrong to do that, but you weren't wrong to do it to him."

Phony Stark Picks on the Wrong Guy, Attempting (and of Course Botching) an HR Exit Interview Live on Twitter

Thorleifsson, to put it mildly, is a rather remarkable and inspiring person.

Daring Fireball
@cspam as surely as night follows day, flies follow shit.
@cspam Empty braggarts, sychophants, adored by other sad empty little men. Greta said it best: [email protected]
@cspam They all have the same position (“tHe PReviOuS sTaFf suCkEd” hurr durr) and they know absolutely zero about any particular situation upon which they comment. Must be blissful to be so brainwashed. To have drunk the Melon kool-aid. To have zero self-awareness and zero shame when they make complete jackasses of themselves. They think they’re being clever & funny. They’re just cretins. (Apologies to all the cretins I’ve offended via that comparison.)
Cave diver tells court Elon Musk tweets 'humiliated' him

Vernon Unsworth tells a court that he felt "ashamed" after the Tesla founder dubbed him "pedo guy".

@cspam
This entire exchange represents elon in a nutshell. Irredeemable.

@cspam This is not new. Remember he called one of the divers that saved those children in that cave in Thailand, a pedophile?

He is a manchild that can not accept any critique, even if it's constructive.

He should be forgotten by everyone.

@cspam Once again the swimming pool of Life has been tainted by The Incontinent Toddler of Twitter!
@cspam doesn’t it make perfect sense to be a huge colosal public asshole when most of your income comes from selling cars to the general public? A public who wants to actively buy cars that are nice cars but also nice to the environment? Don’t those people love giving money to huge nasty assholes?