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39 minutes ago, A wilding said:

Perhaps Musk is a genius after all, luring all these new "verified" accounts to sign up.

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They probably made hundreds if not thousands of dollars. A month*! Surely that should mitigate the previously reported loss of $4M per day!

*Unless that account was suspended. In which case it could be an easy $8 per day. The only hit that Twitter takes for this $8 is to it's reputation and relationship with advertisers and users - no big deal.

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26 minutes ago, Week said:

They probably made hundreds if not thousands of dollars. A month*! Surely that should mitigate the previously reported loss of $4M per day!

*Unless that account was suspended. In which case it could be an easy $8 per day. The only hit that Twitter takes for this $8 is to it's reputation and relationship with advertisers and users - no big deal.

It’s been cancelled somI’m guessong the accounts got refunds

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Really just excellent work by those who posted that nothing was going to change and excitement for all of the (suddenly breathless) *brilliant* ideas that Enron Musk had for the future of Twitter. 

Btw, are y'all Enron fanbois still expecting this guy is taking you to Mars? O rly?

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40 minutes ago, Week said:

Really just excellent work by those who posted that nothing was going to change and excitement for all of the (suddenly breathless) *brilliant* ideas that Enron Musk had for the future of Twitter. 

Btw, are y'all Enron fanbois still expecting this guy is taking you to Mars? O rly?

I just showed this to Partner, who guffawed and guffawed, thumbs up.

Partner also says, "There is no sin in our schadenfreude, and all the fun Other People are having with this tRomp surrogate's toy.  That's part of what's going on: we haven't been able to bury tRomp all this time once and for all, so we have to get our jollies elsewhere.  Nobody's earned it more."

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I really don’t get why he tried to do all this so swiftly. Facebook is a shining example of how utterly dreadful you can make a social media site if you do it so gradually that no one notices. I would literally have a less stressful time on FB in 2009 than I would today, it’s a complete car crash.

Why not just buy it and do … nothing?

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28 minutes ago, DaveSumm said:

I really don’t get why he tried to do all this so swiftly. Facebook is a shining example of how utterly dreadful you can make a social media site if you do it so gradually that no one notices. I would literally have a less stressful time on FB in 2009 than I would today, it’s a complete car crash.

Why not just buy it and do … nothing?

Maybe Liz Truss has been giving him advice?

Otherwise he's backed himself into a corner, taking over a company that needs to make money, spending FAR too much to do it, getting in debt.. on top of that having a herd of employees who just hate his guts and think he's the literal devil. I'm not sure he could have stood still and done nothing.

Also.. he's a bit nuts.

Facebook is dreadful because everyone's mum went on there. When that happened it was only going in one direction.

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59 minutes ago, DaveSumm said:

Why not just buy it and do … nothing?

Let's again repeat the obvious that is being written about everywhere: He's gone into debt, has huge loans -- which if he can't pay them, means his credit is effed -- and he's losing billions in devalued stock in Tesla too, meaning he's not in hundred of billions rich territory, which is the only scorecard there is for them.

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Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks
One insider says the company’s current staffing isn’t able to sustain the platform.

By Chris Stokel-Walkerarchive page
November 8, 2022

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/

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.... A massive tech platform like Twitter is built upon very many interdependent parts. “The larger catastrophic failures are a little more titillating, but the biggest risk is the smaller things starting to degrade,” says Ben Krueger,  a site reliability engineer who has more than two decades of experience in the tech industry. “These are very big, very complicated systems.” Krueger says one 2017 presentation from Twitter staff includes a statistic suggesting that more than half the back-end infrastructure was dedicated to storing data.

While many of Musk’s detractors may hope the platform goes through the equivalent of thermonuclear destruction, the collapse of something like Twitter happens gradually. For those who know, gradual breakdowns are a sign of concern that a larger crash could be imminent. And that’s what’s happening now.

It’s the small things

Whether it’s manual RTs appearing for a moment before retweets slowly morph into their standard form, ghostly follower counts that race ahead of the number of people actually following you, or replies that simply refuse to load, small bugs are appearing at Twitter’s periphery. Even Twitter’s rules, which Musk linked to on November 7, went offline temporarily under the load of millions of eyeballs. In short, it’s becoming unreliable. 

“Sometimes you’ll get notifications that are a little off,” says one engineer currently working at Twitter, who’s concerned about the way the platform is reacting after vast swathes of his colleagues who were previously employed to keep the site running smoothly were fired. (That last sentence is why the engineer has been granted anonymity to talk for this story.) After struggling with downtime during its “Fail Whale” days, Twitter eventually became lauded for its team of site reliability engineers, or SREs. Yet this team has been decimated in the aftermath of Musk’s takeover. “It’s small things, at the moment, but they do really add up as far as the perception of stability,” says the engineer.

The small suggestions of something wrong will amplify and multiply as time goes on, he predicts—in part because the skeleton staff remaining to handle these issues will quickly burn out. “Round-the-clock is detrimental to quality, and we’re already kind of seeing this,” he says.  .....

 

 

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6 hours ago, Morpheus said:

 

Again, always include the loss of stock value from Tesla. Elon's paid close to $66B for this bad boi over the last eight months. That we can at least tell. Probably a good deal more.

And reputation is so hard to account for. 

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