I saw one employee say the site has a week left but hard to say
myspace.com is still up
it's kinda like when Llewelyn asks over the phone if Carson is there and Chigurh answers "Not in the sense that you mean."
almost all music news on the frontpage, nice to see them steer it into a wierd niche
My money is on it having a major (if not permanent) outage that signifies the inevitable end before new years. It might come back online and limp along for a bit, but I think it's already dead on its feet.
Lathe humming
weeks from now...
:my-hero: "Reports of Twitter's death have been GREATLY EXAGGERATED laughcryemojilaughcryemojilaughcryemojilaughcryemojilaughcryemojilaughcryemojilaughcryemojilaughcryemoji"
:so-true: :so-true: :so-true: :so-true: :so-true: :so-true: "Epic and based! Take my 8$ ELOOOOOOOOOOON!"
it ain't goin anywhere, but the standard for functionality will drop enormously until it's below Reddit or even Tumblr level.
I've considered building my own clone of Twitter, just to try to scam some VC money, but moderation is just not worth it to me. Every day I thank the mods of this site for the work they do and the shit they deal with.
Is mastodon actually a Twitter clone? I actually know nothing about it
I think so. I didn't interact with it much because I kinda hate twitter as a format and resent being linked hard to read twitter threads.
Why not just tell the VC paypigs that an AI is doing intelligent content moderation powered by machine learning in the cloud? They would love to hear that kind of bullshit technobabble.
I can see Twitter being effectively completely broken soon, but reemerge as something drastically different (and worse) that is closer to Elon's vision (monetization of everything for example). The one hope I have is that since his view of reality and what's an enjoyable social media experience is completely divorced from any other type of person, not as many people will return to it.
Way too many unknowns at this point, it's entirely possible that it can be kept running on the basis of how well automated its infrastructure is. Which I'd "hope" it's very resilient, based on how well touted tools they're probably using like kubernetes are, but I've also never worked in Silicon Valley.
I've worked on information systems that did computer<->computer communication at a way larger scale than Twitter, it was a way more critical type of infrastructure and if I had to guess it's both more and less fragile than Twitter's infrastructure but probably in pretty different ways...
There's absolutely ways they could break the whole thing and cause outages or degrade performance/functionality for extended periods of time though, and with lots of sudden changes we're hearing about that seem pretty well-sourced, it could be days away. It could also just never really happen. But if they're changing up tons of teams and possibly permissions to the source control and management systems, hey, it's entirely possible someone hits the wrong button and blows up production because they thought there had historically been other approvers or something. Who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, it's all going to depend on how many safety checks are in the current orchestration and unit testing, and how well they're respected/documented. And whether people decide to override them just to shove something out the door.
I'll pray for a subtle bug that causes a slow degradation that eventually reaches a tipping point but has been going on so long that it's affected many pieces of production for as far back as they've got backups and can't just be dropped for some reason. I'm not sure if Twitter has customized their data storage layer at all though, like even if they're using a bunch of document databases or postgres and suddenly things are just in such a state that they're getting some obscure segfaults or something, it's still a system that there are a lot of people with expertise with who can probably figure out how to fix it.
There's also always wildcards like the possibility someone hacking in specifically to break as many things as possible. Honestly it would probably hurt Tesla's share price by association so there's financial motivation for sure. Last time they got infiltrated, the person clearly had no real plan beforehand and just squandered it.
Within 2-4 weeks they'll have a 30-120 minute outage, and then 1-2 weeks after that they'll have a week long outage (with optional outages between these milestones).
Being hyper-specific so I can get the big bragging points if I'm right.
From the ruling class's perspective this is a great test case to see how much tech labor is worth one way or another.
I can’t give an estimate, but now seems like a good time to post the late Richard Cook’s How Complex Systems Fail. Because it’s gonna fail catastrophically at some point, it’s just gonna be a matter of time.
This thread of screenshots is entertaining to read (if you’re a nerd) and relevant.
They're going to mutate it into a right wing mouthpiece at least until the 2024 elections are over. Some rich nazi (other than elon) financed this
Someone make a gif:
'44 billion dollars'
The o in billion has Musk face and zooms to fill the center as the 44 splits to each side to create a 4 0 4 with Musk face in the center.
I don't think Twitter going to make it to 2023 without being offline for more than a day. I think people really underestimate how interchangeable social media sites are. It's one thing for a website to have crappy features and annoying bugs, but as soon as Twitter can no longer be counted on to always be up, people will unceremoniously jump ship. Most likely, people will just jump to Tiktok. I mean, a lot of Tiktok stuff gets reposted on Twitter anyways, so there wouldn't be much of a usability gap.
