Former staff say Twitter needs to update its systems to enact Elon Musk's asks, but the mass layoffs have brought code freezes and vast concurrent code changes
Twitter's outage on Wednesday, which saw the site rendered unusable for most users by blocking people from tweeting within the app …
SCOOP: Elon has emailed staff following the Twitter outage. “Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up.”
😶 Twitter staff doesn't know what went wrong yesterday. They tried to implement at least 3 sets of complex changes. 1) Add 4000k chars for Blue. 2) Cap total # tweets/day to 200. 3) Change API. Plus closing data centers. This rube knows: change one thing at a time else 😢 later. h…
“The problem appears to be one of Musk's own making. By getting rid of so many long-tenured staff, it appears Twitter has routed its institutional knowledge about how the platform works and interacts with other parts of the app.” https://www.fastcompany.com/ ...
Former Twitter engineers fear the platform is caught in a vicious cycle: it's too scared of breaking so instigates code freezes that mean when changes do happen, it's impossible to unpick issues - which results in another freeze. My latest for @FastCompany https://www.fastcompany…
Twitter staff don't know why the platform went offline yesterday - but they've told me for @theipaper about chronic understaffing and infeasibly tight deadlines meaning they're pushing out code. I'll be on the @BBCNews channel in five mins to talk more https://inews.co.uk/...