Ugh, plus 1 to that. As much as people love hating "the new orange guy", there's a lesson behind the fact that he got rid of 80% of staff in a big company in an afternoon and pretty much nothing adverse happened.
To be clear the revenue collapse might be unrelated to the full but I'd call it adverse.
It is completely unrelated. Revenue collapsed due to the powers that be getting angry at him for ending the censorship regime.
As for outages, the issues were little to none.
Yes, the lucrative Nazi market of CatTurd2 and friends
The boosting was done deliberatly and paid for by government agencies (of which some ex-employees where on Twitter's payroll).
It's quite irrelevant IMO whether the deliberate censorship for a certain US political flavor was done automatically or manually.
it's amazing how bad information fluffed up by the angry news media gets thoroughly routed in people's mind, then gets quietly defanged and drilled to earth to the point it's a completely innocuous gossip chain.
see currently the Biden impeachment and Russian propaganda laundering.
people really want to believe salacious stories that cut against popular perception to the point they just get to keep riding that wave of mental backflips to suit their increasingly deranged phantasm.
There were so many broken systems there. Once I made it clear to my boss I wanted to quit Google entirely he told me to just stick around for a year as he didn't want to do the paperwork to fire me.
Thankfully I'm back at a startup. These days if I see a lot of YOE at Google on a resume it is a red flag.
Once we had a large news publication client who had a requirement of optimizing their backend for costs as they were spending something like north of $4000 per month in server costs. This was with Cloudflare on top since the homepage and some sections could never be cached as it had to be real time. To address this issue, we consulted an engineer who had no idea about even the database offerings Google had. He recommended something like a NoSQL solution. The more we grilled him for info on implementation and why he suggested it the more empty talk he gave us. And he wasn’t the only one. Google is really large, so we talked to a handful of them and almost all of them seemed very incompetent.
Frustrated, I walked past one of the areas where people were supposed to be working. And there were a lot of empty seats. And the few that were there were watching some Korean drama on YouTube, etc.
The rest were either sleeping off in couches and/playing snookers downstairs. For an outsider, it felt like a great culture thing to me. But later, after a dozen more visits and same working style observations, it occured to me that this no accountability cozy environment actually didn’t allow them to weed out the bad ones who didn’t even know the product they were supposed to specialize in and nothing good comes out of a company that is built on such levels of incompetence.
Soon after, I quit consulting for Google Cloud products as they also managed to increase prices without justifying the value proposition. I am not alone, many consultants who worked with Google would tell you the same. Their work culture or lack thereof is their worst enemy.