Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)
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Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running. People inside are stunned.

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Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running.

People inside are stunned.

  • emizeko [they/them]
    ·
    2 years ago

    how long until twitter is going to have an outage that lasts for days

    is there a place taking bets

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      When Reddit and Twitter were getting off the ground, outages were routine. It took nearly a decade to get them year-round reliable.

      Now Musk is tossing that out the window? Bold move.

    • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
      ·
      2 years ago

      World Cup is usually the highest traffic event for Twitter and it’s coming up soon…