Ugh. We gotta stop pretending Twitter was ever a public utility.
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Just doing some shopping to prepare for the possibility that Twitter just completely implodes.
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Not sure if this is pure coincidence or a sign of Twitter disintegrating but after having an account for like 7-8 years I just received my first follower. Some random Japanese account.
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Stop stop stop my shopping isn’t here yet.
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it’s not gonna be days. hard to predict but large sites can operate on fire for a surprisingly long time. unless something insane breaks it could go on just fine for months with small errors.
when i start to see random 500 errors is when i know it’s close. this is amazing, it’s like how it must’ve felt to watch the buffalo go extinct or something
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It’s possible he can spin up new engineering teams in time to stop bit entropy from taking over but it seems like Twitter is probably not top of most people’s employment destinations right now. But there are a lot of tech Elon fanboys so who knows.
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I came in to a company right after an earth shattering layoff like this - it was nuts, like entire teams not knowing a single thing about what they owned and no one could help them either. Lots of reverse engineering. Nothing on the scale of twitter though and definitely didnt have a psychotic CEO
You have to pay me double, with a 1 month advance payment in perpetuity, for me to work there and I wouldn’t even quit my current job.
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jery get twiitr
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Call it whatever you want, it’s this stuff
https://twitter.com/davidasuper1/status/1593424972847800321?s=46&t=EDj8UrAZVashWPGSYkm_ig
https://twitter.com/zackbeauchamp/status/1593425306488020997?s=46&t=EDj8UrAZVashWPGSYkm_ig
About a decade ago I actually did a bit of home handywork for the Sexyland founders (two gay guys) at their amazing place in Fairhaven in Victoria (near Lorne). It was quite funny, we (friend was also doing the same work) brought my friend’s dog one day (a tiny cairn terrier) and the founders both lost their minds because they thought this dog could impregnate the pure blooded Huskies they were breeding at the house as a hobby/maybe professional (fairly sure they’d cashed out of sexyland by that time). The reaction was priceless. A cairn terrier is about the height of a huskies ankle. Didn’t actually find out the source of their wealth until way later.
Twitter dying just increases the degree that the libs were owned.
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Definitely gonna be elons argument.
He’ll tweet ‘owned’ as the last ever twitter post before shutting down
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That’s what I keep wondering. Every time something else comes out they all make a shitty copy of it. Twitter even had a shitty Snapchat clone for a while.
You have to wonder if some of the tech giants don’t have a skunk works team trying to crank up working MVP right now.
Somebody will buy the IP for pennys on the dollar.
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Instead of dumping billions into self driving cars with zero return, build twitter 2.0! Seems pretty obvious. Though the best case scenario appears to be like $700 million of EBITDA, that’s meaningless to Microsoft or google or whoever. And it’s inherently political.
All anybody really needs to do is fork Mastodon.