How is abandoning a mad boss sabotage? Those people are my new heroes. They clearly send a message to anyone in the industry trying to emulate musk, that if you mess around you find out.

I read it as Musk sabotaging it himself.

That would be how I meant it.

If that’s what you meant, then I think a clearer wording would have been “self-sabotage”. The wording “internal sabotage” implies a coordinated effort against Musk by people inside Twitter.

By whom, Musk?

Because while particular actions he's taken in the past few weeks may be justifiable in certain contexts, all of them taken together can only be interpreted as an attempt to set 44 billion dollars on fire.

Yeah, I meant internal sabotage by Musk.

Weird new CEO fires half the company, then demands a _loyalty pledge_, like a common Henry VIII. Sensibly, everyone quits. I mean, the only saboteur there is the leadership.

I think it's about politics. Lots of Twitter employees are left-wing, and they hate Elon. They were probably creating trouble for him. The loyalty pledge is the typical Elon approach of taking sudden and drastic action in response to a problem.

Why would you assume it's about politics instead of the whole "shitty asshole boss who has open contempt for you and your coworkers, who is promising to massively overwork you, who might fire you any moment and has already fired half your peers"? I think you'd have to be completely insane to want to work there right now.

Well, there was twitter drama that preceded elon's buying twitter, and there was clearly a lot of employees pushing their politics using it. Hell, we got recent thread about how Japanese Twitter changed the moment the "moderation" got kicked out.

But yeah, asshole boss gonna be #1 cause here with literally anything else being barely related.

You're putting a lot of stock into this idea that the root cause is some left-leaning employees. I don't buy it whatsoever. But even if we assumed it true (it's not), if you bought a company where the employees hate you and you immediately start antagonising them doesn't that indicate that you were the problem?

Something being typical for Elon does not make it intelligent move and does not make it not destructive.

I didn't say otherwise :-)

Weird how twitter is running just fine huh

I think any reasonably well engineered system of this scale should run fine for a few weeks without ops, barring any weird Murphy's Law madness. Staying up for two days is not much of an achievement. Perhaps the real test is still ongoing.

It appears I wasn't paritually clear. I meant Elon Musk is the one commiting internal sabotage.

So is this ignorance or malice?