Today’s piece about Elon Musk’s Twitter by @caseynewton @zoeschiffer @alexeheath is incredible.
The level of dysfunction inside that company is much worse than what I could have imagined… https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji

As a marketer, I found this bit particularly chilling:

It’s rare for me to enjoy a LinkedIn post this much, especially something this old from some random VC I’ve never heard of before.

But my husband found it and boy is this relevant right now… see screenshot below

Full link for those curious - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/assholes-sometimes-ok-i-cant-stand-weathervanes-grin-fuckers-walk/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_post_details%3B2cLDIjClQOGOYlh2%2FEekBw%3D%3D

Third-party Twitter clients like Tweetbot and and Twitterrific were critical to the success of Twitter and their users are some of the company's most valuable.

Both deserved better than to have the Twitter API shut off on no notice with no explanation. My thoughts and some history over on @macstories: https://www.macstories.net/stories/twitter-intentionally-ends-third-party-app-developer-access-to-its-apis/

Almost 24 hours later and still no official/unofficial info from inside Twitter. I'm going to continue as if this was all done on purpose.

What now? Ivory goes into hyper mode with just the absolute minimum 3-4 things that have to be done finished up and then off to Apple. Probably going to be a bunch of things I'm not super happy with but I guess we'll fix it in post.

Hopefully everyone knows what we're capable of and can live with some, hopefully not long lived, rough edges/missing features.

I was just fired. If you know someone hiring staff level software engineers, preferably in a #sre, #devops, or #PlatformEngineering space, I'd love to talk.

I'm looking for US remote positions, fwiw. And I can refer some really excellent engineers at all experience levels.

Edit: thank you for the boosts. I've been interviewing and I may have offers soon. I'll follow up on leads if I need to extend my search.

 
There are two pieces of news in this one:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-politics-controls-zuckerberg-meta-11672929976?mod=tech_lead_pos2
 
1.     In late 2021, with zero fanfare, Facebook began changing newsfeed worldwide to exclude comments and reshares in how it promotes politics, societal and health-related content.

2.     This wasn’t enough for FB’s leadership and board. Late in 2021, they asked Facebook to move forward with zero-weighting ALL civic content in newsfeed. Facebook wanted out of politics.

RT @[email protected]

Oops! I did again, @[email protected]:

I created a Twitter account pretending to be @[email protected] (with his permission) and applied for Blue “verification.”

And once again, Twitter took my $8, asked zero questions and gave the fake account a blue checkmark.

https://wapo.st/3VHo2Qg

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/geoffreyfowler/status/1611018186962653193