Re:More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring
by JohnMakin on Monday October 27, 2025 @12:50PM
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I would categorize what happened to the site and it being rendered unusable by anyone even halfway serious as catastrophic - but perhaps my bar is a little higher for the "smartest man in the world" than "I can still get a 200 response from the site" (which actually is also down, in terms of outages).
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Re:More big companies bet they can still grow without hiring
by MontyCarloHall on Monday October 27, 2025 @12:55PM
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I agree that the site is barely usable, but that's entirely due to a shift in Twitter's userbase caused by top-down policy changes (e.g. boosting right-wing spam), not any engineering shortcomings.
If Musk had never purchased Twitter and Jack Dorsey performed the same reduction in engineering staff, I doubt the site would be materially different from how it was pre-Musk.