It's almost a month and Twitter is still online despite predictions of mayhem

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/twitter-outage-predictions/471165/

by chasd00 • 4 years ago

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chasd00• 4 years ago

Maybe Musk was right about the bloat

mikece• 4 years ago

It is fascinating that half (or more?) of Twitter's workforce can be released and there's no discernible degradation of the service. I wonder how many other tech CEO are looking at their organizations and wondering if they could slash similarly without losing platform performance.

josefresco2• 4 years ago

there's no discernible degradation of the service

Twitter advertisers would beg to differ.

a_shovel• 4 years ago

The Latest Tweets feed on the Android app was completely broken for about a week for me and several other people.

garren• 4 years ago

Seems short-sighted. That Twitter hasn’t fallen over appears more like a credit to the SRE work that went into getting everything running on, effectively, autopilot. Today’s Twitter infra is clearly a far cry from the stuff a decade ago.

rvz• 4 years ago

Yes. It just shows that it doesn't take 7,000+ employees to run the blue bird site.

Only around 500 to 1000 despite all the emotional reactions, outrage, FUD and unfounded apocalyptic prophesies made by the media and the doomsters predicting the imminent collapse of Twitter.

CuriouslyC• 4 years ago

The twitter app itself could probably run fine with much less than that, I've seen skeleton engineering crews support hundreds of millions of MAUs pushing terabytes of data. What musk has sacrificed is everything besides the twitter app, which is probably not enough to maintain twitter the corporation in the long term.

TheBigSalad• 4 years ago

Having used twitter, I don't know what I don't know, but it's hard to imagine how the company could possibly have 7K employees. Maybe 500 to 1K seems more reasonable given what's there.

ZeroGravitas2• 4 years ago

Getting the ex-president to call for the termination of the constitution was a kind of mayhem.

stjohnswarts2• 4 years ago

But that was on Truth social and not twitter?

ZeroGravitas2• 4 years ago

It was a response to "the twitter files" being released on Twitter, by the new owner of Twitter.

And it was made by someone who had been invited back onto Twitter by Musk.

beardyw• 4 years ago

There are those wishing it to fail, those wishing it to succeed. Wishing won't help. It will find its own level. We can only stand and watch.

snapcaster3• 4 years ago

I think it's too early to say, but it is interesting on what timeline we should expect a failure or update our beliefs on how much bloat there was. I'm not sure personally, if we go a year with no major issues I'm willing to concede Elon was right about the bloat

ydlr• 4 years ago

Even if they manage to keep the service online, the fact that employees are sleeping in the office is a sign that they are now grossly understaffed.

chis• 4 years ago

We also don’t have much visibility into revenue now that it’s a private company. I’ve seen a lot of speculation that their ads product is falling apart and revenue is down. And obviously Twitter Blue seems to have been a chaotic failure.

out-of-ideas• 4 years ago

twitter was profitable before the takeover; and they had invested in good auto scaling/recovery of systems to handle day-to-day through year-to-year problems; i for one am not surprised all seems okay on the consumer side after a month.

the real problems are when security patches need to be deployed to all levels of infrastructure and upgrades to all versions are required before patches go out.. that is the waiting game i'd be willing to bet will be most frustrating to them. but then again with so many people out of jobs there, there is that much more money to give to the remaining employees for incentives to live at the office

shagmin• 4 years ago

Think it's a bit early to tell for sure, many predictions overplay the short term and underplay the long term or sometimes vice versa. Some of that bloat that's no longer there may have been what made Twitter stable without those employees now. What I think Twitter has lost is slack, for better or worse. Twitter may just be stuck in its current form for the most part for the remainder of its live (not that pre-Elon Musk Twitter was gearing up for a pivot or anything). If they do find a new lucrative pet project to put resources into or significant regulations to deal with on a technical level, maybe it will just be less over-engineered, or maybe it will be covered in band-aids.

joegahona• 4 years ago

Small things are breaking, but the Cassandra-like predictions of major outages appear to have been wrong so far.

trynewideas• 4 years ago

Did the UK/German employees ever get paid for November?

taolegal2• 4 years ago

Color me surprised it was all bluster.

Clear as day that Trump pretty much stopped being able to sustain liberal outrage and now the Borg has decided Musk is a Republican (he's certainly not) in order to continue the perpetual heroin drip of anger and hatred they live off of.

snapcaster3• 4 years ago

He explicitly endorsed republicans ahead of the recent election. How can you be _certain_ he isn't a republican? As a follow up, how do elon's boots taste?

taolegal2• 4 years ago

As a follow up, how do elon's boots taste?

aren't you just proving my point that you're blinded by hatred?

It's almost a month and Twitter is still online despite predictions of mayhem

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