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BizarreMan [TotalFark]
2023-02-09 12:49:50 AM  
As Twitter wend down for most users across the world, the CEO of the microblogging platform, Elon Musk, sent an SOS email to staff to pause all work on feature development until the outage was solved."Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report.Exactly what harebrained change management are they running over there now where people are running development on the production environment, and they are making any changes last week, this week, and next week. When you consider the Grammy's and Superbowl this is a very busy time for them.As Twitter went down for most users across the world, the CEO of the microblogging platform, Elon Musk, sent an SOS email to staff to pause all work on feature development until the outage was solved.

"Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report.
Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/pause-the-feature-elon-musks-sos-to-staff-after-twitter-glitch-stops-users-from-tweeting-or-sending-dms/articleshow/97756032.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppstAs Twitter went down for most users across the world, the CEO of the microblogging platform, Elon Musk, sent an SOS email to staff to pause all work on feature development until the outage was solved.

"Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report.
Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/pause-the-feature-elon-musks-sos-to-staff-after-twitter-glitch-stops-users-from-tweeting-or-sending-dms/articleshow/97756032.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppstAs Twitter went down for most users across the world, the CEO of the microblogging platform, Elon Musk, sent an SOS email to staff to pause all work on feature development until the outage was solved.

"Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report.
Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/pause-the-feature-elon-musks-sos-to-staff-after-twitter-glitch-stops-users-from-tweeting-or-sending-dms/articleshow/97756032.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst"Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report."Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report."Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report.
 
BizarreMan [TotalFark]
2023-02-09 12:54:09 AM  
 Too bad there isn't a preview function or something.  I did a cut and paste, and it didn't appear that it was in the screen.


As Twitter went down for most users across the world, the CEO of the microblogging platform, Elon Musk, sent an SOS email to staff to pause all work on feature development until the outage was solved."Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report.


.Exactly what harebrained change management are they running over there now where people are running development on the production environment, and they are making any changes last week, this week, and next week. When you consider the Grammy's and Superbowl this is a very busy time for them.

Please ignore my Boobies and consider this one to be the correct one.
 
Stephen_Falken [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-09 1:01:02 AM  

BizarreMan: Too bad there isn't a preview function or something.  I did a cut and paste, and it didn't appear that it was in the screen.


As Twitter went down for most users across the world, the CEO of the microblogging platform, Elon Musk, sent an SOS email to staff to pause all work on feature development until the outage was solved."Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report.


.Exactly what harebrained change management are they running over there now where people are running development on the production environment, and they are making any changes last week, this week, and next week. When you consider the Grammy's and Superbowl this is a very busy time for them.

Please ignore my Boobies and consider this one to be the correct one.


WAY too many words, blaming the Fark platform, didn't proofread, and a very adolescent typo.
All to simply agree that Musk has become a total dickhead. -1
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-09 1:56:01 AM  
Meanwhile

scontent.fsac1-1.fna.fbcdn.netView Full Size
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-09 2:42:30 AM  
More plugging for Mastodon

Fark user imageView Full Size
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-09 2:47:48 AM  
mastodon.sdf.orgView Full Size
 
Bootleg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-09 3:10:43 AM  

BizarreMan: Too bad there isn't a preview function or something.  I did a cut and paste, and it didn't appear that it was in the screen.


As Twitter went down for most users across the world, the CEO of the microblogging platform, Elon Musk, sent an SOS email to staff to pause all work on feature development until the outage was solved."Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report.


.Exactly what harebrained change management are they running over there now where people are running development on the production environment, and they are making any changes last week, this week, and next week. When you consider the Grammy's and Superbowl this is a very busy time for them.

Please ignore my Boobies and consider this one to be the correct one.


Are we sure this is they pushed a break to Prod, and not something finally giving way under stress?
 
DannyBrandt [TotalFark]
2023-02-09 3:45:19 AM  

BizarreMan: Please ignore my Boobies


No.
 
sensitive yet dangerous
2023-02-09 4:10:47 AM  
So they're going to roll out a pay-per-Tweet model? First five are free, then 10¢ each? Blue people get 50 free then 5¢ each? Posting images are 2x that cost? Because that's what it looks like they're gearing up for.

Well at least those 50-part Twitter threads will go away. People will have to go back to txtspk to get their message in as few Tweets as possible.
 
Mouren
2023-02-09 4:35:47 AM  
Going so far against "free speech absolutism" that speech is going to literally cost you.
 
Riche [TotalFark]
2023-02-09 5:37:54 AM  
I was led to believe Twitter was going to crash for good a week or two after Musk fired most of the tech guys. That's been a while ago.

Maybe THIS is the beginning of the end.
 
batlock666
2023-02-09 5:39:46 AM  

Mouren: Going so far against "free speech absolutism" that speech is going to literally cost you.


Freedom Isn't Free - Team America OST
Youtube BVkTmnJkAN8
 
ScrimBoy
2023-02-09 6:26:28 AM  
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GetaLife
2023-02-09 6:59:04 AM  

Stephen_Falken: BizarreMan: Too bad there isn't a preview function or something.  I did a cut and paste, and it didn't appear that it was in the screen.


As Twitter went down for most users across the world, the CEO of the microblogging platform, Elon Musk, sent an SOS email to staff to pause all work on feature development until the outage was solved."Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report.


.Exactly what harebrained change management are they running over there now where people are running development on the production environment, and they are making any changes last week, this week, and next week. When you consider the Grammy's and Superbowl this is a very busy time for them.

Please ignore my Boobies and consider this one to be the correct one.

WAY too many words, blaming the Fark platform, didn't proofread, and a very adolescent typo.
All to simply agree that Musk has become a total dickhead. -1

??
 
centrifugal bumblepuppy
2023-02-09 7:05:40 AM  

sensitive yet dangerous: So they're going to roll out a pay-per-Tweet model? First five are free, then 10¢ each? Blue people get 50 free then 5¢ each? Posting images are 2x that cost? Because that's what it looks like they're gearing up for.

Well at least those 50-part Twitter threads will go away. People will have to go back to txtspk to get their message in as few Tweets as possible.


The API changes that got rolled back for a week allow 4000 word tweets, but you'll have to click the "more" button to read the whole thing. So if you can't write it in 280 characters, fuggetaboutit.
 
GetaLife
2023-02-09 7:50:31 AM  
With the 4000 character expansion it's no longer a micro-blogging app, it's just a shiatty mobile version of WordPress.

/it's like elmo has the anti-Midas touch
 
Snarcoleptic_Hoosier
2023-02-09 8:13:27 AM  

Riche: I was led to believe Twitter was going to crash for good a week or two after Musk fired most of the tech guys. That's been a while ago.

Maybe THIS is the beginning of the end.


Anybody who thought Twitter would explode in a fit of hilarity that soon after firing the dev teams was delusional. What's happening is basically skipping oil changes on your car. Yeah, missing one and going 13000 miles before you remember won't kill the car. It's not good, but your engine will survive it. Going 90,000 miles without an oil change will kill the car.

Twitter won't just collapse. It'll slowly see more things breaking or remaining unsupported over the coming months that just get rationalized as the new normal. The flow of people departing will continue as Twitter bleeds market value.
 
synithium
2023-02-09 8:16:47 AM  

batlock666: Mouren: Going so far against "free speech absolutism" that speech is going to literally cost you.

[YouTube video: Freedom Isn't Free - Team America OST]


Check out the old prices in this song.

Freedom cost at least a buck twenty now.
 
groppet
2023-02-09 8:25:38 AM  

Riche: I was led to believe Twitter was going to crash for good a week or two after Musk fired most of the tech guys. That's been a while ago.

Maybe THIS is the beginning of the end.


I don't think twitter will crash but I think it will fade like myspace has and a bunch of other social media. I think Elmo has fast tracked that with all his crap and the more he lets the racists and nazis on there it will drive away users. Now would be the perfect time for a new player to come on the field and start drawing away users.
 
AmbassadorBooze
2023-02-09 8:30:19 AM  
Boycott Twitter.

Problem solved
 
HotWingConspiracy
2023-02-09 8:33:35 AM  
They only managed to find 180k suckers in the US to pay for the blue check and they want to launch some premium tier?

Twitter addicts have convinced themselves that everyone is a twitter addict. People will just migrate to free to use platforms.
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-09 8:35:52 AM  
TSLA has added almost $400,000,000,000 in market cap in the past 4 weeks.

Even as things like this show just how much he sucks at running things.

It's amazing to see. God bless the brave, the bold and the people looking for short-term profit.
 
soopey [OhFark]
2023-02-09 8:47:47 AM  

make me some tea: [mastodon.sdf.org image 580x702]


1,500 tweets a month?

That's one tweet every 15 minutes if you tweet for 12 hours a day.
 
senorjuanton
2023-02-09 8:51:59 AM  
Post is far superior to Twitter.  It automatically shows your followed stuff chronologically, has moderation so it is not just a bunch of crypto bots and Reichwingers responding, and makes is really easy to find content.
 
Jim_Tressel's_O-Face
2023-02-09 9:30:34 AM  

senorjuanton: Post is far superior to Twitter.  It automatically shows your followed stuff chronologically, has moderation so it is not just a bunch of crypto bots and Reichwingers responding, and makes is really easy to find content.


Elmo's worst nightmare is all the major media players migrating to Post.  So, of course, he's busily hastening that happening.
 
parrellel
2023-02-09 10:05:37 AM  
Honestly, twitter could very well have exploded immediately.  Why?  The world cup previously put the whole site under massive strain and they had to do a whole lot of white knuckling to keep it up.

I think the dev's who initially started the "LOL its burning down train" rolling just didn't take into account the reduced load from all the people booking it off Twitter.

Now of course the oil change argument is the correct one.
 
phimuskapsi [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-09 10:32:58 AM  
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Good luck with that Elmo.

make me some tea: Meanwhile

[scontent.fsac1-1.fna.fbcdn.net image 435x873]


No. There are no regulations for Mastodon server owners or admins, and given that servers are individually owned, opens you up to a whole host of issues from admins reading your DM's to a laundry list of security concerns and issues.
 
SpocksEars [TotalFark]
2023-02-09 10:41:36 AM  

BizarreMan: Too bad there isn't a preview function or something.  I did a cut and paste, and it didn't appear that it was in the screen.


As Twitter went down for most users across the world, the CEO of the microblogging platform, Elon Musk, sent an SOS email to staff to pause all work on feature development until the outage was solved."Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report.


.Exactly what harebrained change management are they running over there now where people are running development on the production environment, and they are making any changes last week, this week, and next week. When you consider the Grammy's and Superbowl this is a very busy time for them.

Please ignore my Boobies and consider this one to be the correct one.


If paying attention to your Boobies is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
 
Archie Goodwin
2023-02-09 10:56:18 AM  
So those people making Twitter/TotalTwitter jokes may have been on the money?

Hahahaha.

Watch the migration to Mastodon continue apace.
 
thornhill
2023-02-09 11:20:27 AM  

groppet: Riche: I was led to believe Twitter was going to crash for good a week or two after Musk fired most of the tech guys. That's been a while ago.

Maybe THIS is the beginning of the end.

I don't think twitter will crash but I think it will fade like myspace has and a bunch of other social media. I think Elmo has fast tracked that with all his crap and the more he lets the racists and nazis on there it will drive away users. Now would be the perfect time for a new player to come on the field and start drawing away users.


Here's the Harvard B-school case study on Twitter:

Putting Elon aside for a moment, Twitter's problem is that its growth plateaued years ago, and what makes its platform popular with its users doesn't appeal to the masses, and, it's impossible to monetize. Copying what other platforms do will never solve its growth and revenue problem because they'll always be playing catch up, and they risk pissing off their most loyal users.

What Twitter needs to do is leverage its brand equity to branch out into completely new fields. This is exactly what Apple did. They realized that they'd never gain market share with personal computers, and instead of continuing to fight a losing battle, they pivoted to making other devices and services.

What's remarkable, is that Musk doesn't seem to understand this.
 
GriffXX [OhFark]
2023-02-09 11:30:13 AM  

Riche: I was led to believe Twitter was going to crash for good a week or two after Musk fired most of the tech guys. That's been a while ago.

Maybe THIS is the beginning of the end.


I didn't say a week or two, but I did say 'a global outage by the end of January.' Was off by about a week.
 
Pats_Cloth_Coat
2023-02-09 11:33:53 AM  
I suspect that this wasn't dev code pushed ti prod but just stuff falling apart, and the layoffs mean the developers do double duty as prod support
 
TDWCom29
2023-02-09 11:39:19 AM  

Mouren: Going so far against "free speech absolutism" that speech is going to literally cost you.


This is so true and so goddamned funny.

thornhill: What's remarkable, is that Musk doesn't seem to understand this.


I don't think this sentence is ever true
 
Riche [TotalFark]
2023-02-09 11:48:18 AM  

synithium: batlock666: Mouren: Going so far against "free speech absolutism" that speech is going to literally cost you.

[YouTube video: Freedom Isn't Free - Team America OST]

Check out the old prices in this song.

Freedom cost at least a buck twenty now.



Tree fiddy.
 
thornhill
2023-02-09 11:54:44 AM  

TDWCom29: thornhill: What's remarkable, is that Musk doesn't seem to understand this.


I don't think this sentence is ever true


He's not a bad business person -- the fact that Tesla is so widely overvalued is proof of that. And, if you look at his business career, he has a history of pivoting into new areas instead of doubling-down on a single field.
 
TDWCom29
2023-02-09 11:59:13 AM  

thornhill: TDWCom29: thornhill: What's remarkable, is that Musk doesn't seem to understand this.


I don't think this sentence is ever true

He's not a bad business person -- the fact that Tesla is so widely overvalued is proof of that. And, if you look at his business career, he has a history of pivoting into new areas instead of doubling-down on a single field.


Howard Hughes was a very savvy businessman at one point in his life too
 
Hyjamon
2023-02-09 12:15:08 PM  

make me some tea: Meanwhile

[scontent.fsac1-1.fna.fbcdn.net image 435x873]


kind of interesting the mini spikes that occur at the end/start of each month. I would guess it has to do with subscribers when they see they are still paying for twitter at the end of the month when looking at the monthly bills?
 
Ivo Shandor [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-09 1:13:21 PM  

phimuskapsi: [Fark user image image 789x374]

Good luck with that Elmo.

make me some tea: Meanwhile

[scontent.fsac1-1.fna.fbcdn.net image 435x873]

No. There are no regulations for Mastodon server owners or admins, and given that servers are individually owned, opens you up to a whole host of issues from admins reading your DM's to a laundry list of security concerns and issues.


You can pick a Mastodon server which is run by a large organization rather than some guy in his basement. And Elon can read your DMs if you stay on Twitter; use something like Signal if you need privacy.
 
GriffXX [OhFark]
2023-02-09 1:26:07 PM  

thornhill: TDWCom29: thornhill: What's remarkable, is that Musk doesn't seem to understand this.


I don't think this sentence is ever true

He's not a bad business person -- the fact that Tesla is so widely overvalued is proof of that. And, if you look at his business career, he has a history of pivoting into new areas instead of doubling-down on a single field.


Yeah - but this one is weird. He's gone from vehicles on the road, vehicles under the ground, vehicles up into space - to a declining social media company that he's clearly addicted to. It's obviously a field that he doesn't know anything about and isn't open to any feedback about what he's doing is a horrible idea.
 
Riche [TotalFark]
2023-02-09 1:26:20 PM  

GriffXX: Riche: I was led to believe Twitter was going to crash for good a week or two after Musk fired most of the tech guys. That's been a while ago.

Maybe THIS is the beginning of the end.

I didn't say a week or two, but I did say 'a global outage by the end of January.' Was off by about a week.


I was thinking comments on this site and others.

Not a bad guess, though. 👍
 
Klom Dark [BareFark]
2023-02-09 1:50:21 PM  

GriffXX: Riche: I was led to believe Twitter was going to crash for good a week or two after Musk fired most of the tech guys. That's been a while ago.

Maybe THIS is the beginning of the end.

I didn't say a week or two, but I did say 'a global outage by the end of January.' Was off by about a week.


Sure ya did, Griff, now go back to Pioneer Village
 
El Rich-o
2023-02-09 2:07:07 PM  

Stephen_Falken: BizarreMan: Too bad there isn't a preview function or something.  I did a cut and paste, and it didn't appear that it was in the screen.


As Twitter went down for most users across the world, the CEO of the microblogging platform, Elon Musk, sent an SOS email to staff to pause all work on feature development until the outage was solved."Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up," Musk wrote to employees in an email, the Information said in a report.


.Exactly what harebrained change management are they running over there now where people are running development on the production environment, and they are making any changes last week, this week, and next week. When you consider the Grammy's and Superbowl this is a very busy time for them.

Please ignore my Boobies and consider this one to be the correct one.

WAY too many words, blaming the Fark platform, didn't proofread, and a very adolescent typo.
All to simply agree that Musk has become a total dickhead. -1


I was just going to give it a 'user name checks out' and go about my business.
 
Fooshards
2023-02-09 2:22:02 PM  
What an absolute clown fiesta.   Twitters ex-devops team must have left behind a really good software build/deliver system for the new Fuhrer to be breaking stuff at this speed.

I'm very disappointed that he hasn't broken it completely and shut it the fark down yet.   Or gotten it shutdown by crossing various red lines.   It's almost as if all the regulators in the world have spent the last 2 decades becoming voluntarily toothless.
 
phimuskapsi [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-09 2:26:55 PM  

Ivo Shandor: phimuskapsi: [Fark user image image 789x374]

Good luck with that Elmo.

make me some tea: Meanwhile

[scontent.fsac1-1.fna.fbcdn.net image 435x873]

No. There are no regulations for Mastodon server owners or admins, and given that servers are individually owned, opens you up to a whole host of issues from admins reading your DM's to a laundry list of security concerns and issues.

You can pick a Mastodon server which is run by a large organization rather than some guy in his basement. And Elon can read your DMs if you stay on Twitter; use something like Signal if you need privacy.


How do you know what organization is actually running the service? You don't. 

P2P comms are fine, but as a social media tool? That's a hard no from me dawg.
 
GriffXX [OhFark]
2023-02-09 2:33:31 PM  

Klom Dark: GriffXX: Riche: I was led to believe Twitter was going to crash for good a week or two after Musk fired most of the tech guys. That's been a while ago.

Maybe THIS is the beginning of the end.

I didn't say a week or two, but I did say 'a global outage by the end of January.' Was off by about a week.

Sure ya did, Griff, now go back to Pioneer Village


Thread from December.

quote : 'I'm also calling that Twitter's first major extended outage will happen in January.'

Meh, I'm saying that counts but I was a week off.
 
centrifugal bumblepuppy
2023-02-09 2:47:57 PM  
Cloudflare just introduced Wildebeest, which is an open-source Mastodon-compatible server. You pay them a few bucks a month to run your own instance, certainly a better deal than paying Elmo.
 
centrifugal bumblepuppy
2023-02-09 2:48:31 PM  
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centrifugal bumblepuppy
2023-02-09 3:35:28 PM  
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https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer
 
Klom Dark [BareFark]
2023-02-09 3:53:38 PM  

GriffXX: Klom Dark: GriffXX: Riche: I was led to believe Twitter was going to crash for good a week or two after Musk fired most of the tech guys. That's been a while ago.

Maybe THIS is the beginning of the end.

I didn't say a week or two, but I did say 'a global outage by the end of January.' Was off by about a week.

Sure ya did, Griff, now go back to Pioneer Village

Thread from December.

quote : 'I'm also calling that Twitter's first major extended outage will happen in January.'

Meh, I'm saying that counts but I was a week off.


So ya did!

But seriously, how's Pioneer Village?
 
TDWCom29
2023-02-09 4:49:12 PM  

centrifugal bumblepuppy: [Fark user image 800x745][Fark user image 800x402]
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer


God help us all if he figures out he has to keep doing wacky/shiatty things to keep his numbers up
 
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