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0 pointsilaksh3y ago0 comments

I would use it as a case in point. You have one group claiming that Twitter is completely on fire and soon to be closed, and the other saying it's never been better and there was zero fallout from rapidly firing thousands of people including a lot of engineers.

Neither of those extreme viewpoints reflected reality accurately. There were significant problems, but they did not take the entire site down or anything. In fact, for millions who did not have 2FA or use it at that point, they did not see any issue. Whereas people that wanted to find an issue could go looking for the movies. So each side was able to find ways to reinforce their alternate realities.

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jeffbee3y ago

I think both sides are correct. Anyone with experience at the scale knows that if everyone stops working, the site becomes more reliable. Holiday freezes demonstrate this. But holiday freezes also demonstrate the other thing: if left alone for too long the systems start to rot, from memory leaks and cache ossification and other things that usually aren't noticed during active development.

Personally, I doubt that it will be anything technological that ends Twitter. It will be economic. Their advertising revenue has been decimated and their operating costs have never been higher.

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jeffbee3y ago

Personally, I doubt that it will be anything technological that ends Twitter. It will be economic. Their advertising revenue has been decimated and their operating costs have never been higher.

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