Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years

Re:Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years by moralestapia on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:37PM (#43324989)

>is the site just experiencing an outage due to an over-worked and understaffed team who were told to move fast and break things?

Doubt it. If anything they've shown to be a phenomenal team. I would believe the cyberattack claim.

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Re:Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years by culi on Monday March 10, 2025 @03:42PM (#43325059)

In what ways have they shown to be a phenomenal team? Genuinely curious.

I've seen their embed break on pretty much every site that embeds Twitter feeds, accessibility of their site has taken a massive hit, Twitter's 2024 Q4 revenue is down to less than half of its 2021 Q4 peak,[0] and now this...

Are you referring to any specific accomplishments?

[0] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/

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Re:Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years by moralestapia on Monday March 10, 2025 @05:02PM (#43326061)

X has shipped way more new features on the past year than in the rest of its existence.

Musk famously reduced head count by like ... 80%? To me, that speaks of a very capable team. But yeah, downvote this one as well, the truth is evident anyway, lol.

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Re:Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years by culi on Monday March 10, 2025 @06:08PM (#43326667)

I never downvoted you but it's clear you don't know what you're talking about. X has definitely not shipped way more new features in the past year than the rest of existence.

I don't even know how you would quantify that but features are only possible when you have a good architecture (incl. infrastructure and well-thought out interfaces) already in place. That kind of stuff takes years and was done by the team before Musk even took over.

I also feel you're completely discounting the regressions. Twitter has suffered search engine discoverability; the API has completely broken in their attempt to monopolize it; and the entire accessibility team was axed leading to a very broken user experience for those relying on screen readers. Maybe those features just don't matter to you but in an attempt to quantify "number of features shipped" they should definitely be accounted for somehow

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Re:Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years by senordevnyc on Monday March 10, 2025 @05:21PM (#43326249)

"X has shipped way more new features on the past year than in the rest of its existence."

This makes you sound like you live in Elon's alternate reality.

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Re:Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years by moralestapia on Monday March 10, 2025 @06:05PM (#43326637)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/elon-musk-twitter-everythi...

Yeah, I'm imagining a lot of things.

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Re:Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years by senordevnyc on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @09:07AM (#43332038)

lol, the last year on that list is mostly a pitiful collection of minor tweaks and “plans” to do stuff in the future. Any day now, I’m sure.

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Re:Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years by abenga on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @09:24AM (#43332208)

Those look like mostly nonsense tweaks to put a "paywall"/"sign-in wall" on content. They have mostly made the service less useful to the world.

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Re:Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years by rurp on Monday March 10, 2025 @04:30PM (#43325725)

Well Musk lied about exactly this sort of thing last year, blaming a non-existant DDoS attack that turned out to just be poor engineering on their part. Given his massive track record of lies on all sorts of topics anything he says on twitter should be assumed false unless proven otherwise.

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Re:Tesla shares plunge 14%, head for worst day in five years by Dig1t on Monday March 10, 2025 @04:53PM (#43325954)

Do you have any evidence that that happened? I have never read about that.

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