Julian, wrote:
For all the “he’s ruining Twitter” talk, the Twitter experience is exactly what it was before he bought it
except that it isn't. my daily starting point on twitter is the "for you" page, which presents content based on my past consumption (i.e. tracks my interests). as of today, the layout of that page is different, and the content is notably off. none of my interests are there, instead is all generic middle-of-the-road stuff. there also used to be "Events" (like the Olympics, War In Ukraine, Midterm Elections, etc) and those are now gone. small changes, maybe, but twitter has suddenly become A LOT less useful for me.
i'm seriously wondering how the app is going to remain functional over the next week. per reports on twitter (irony!), entire departments have quit. after firing half the staff on tuesday, elon pitched "twitter 2.0" to the survivors (~3.5k), and sounds like folks are bailing en masse. i've read various reports that all of InfoSec has quit, payroll is gone, senior engineers walked out of a meeting elon called to pitch 2.0 to them… they're collecting the names of those who have accepted elon's offer of working 80 hours a week and sleeping on office floors, which is under 1,000. from 7k earlier this week to under 1k. companies collapse from a lot less than that. legal issues could very quickly mount if twitter can't be kept secure (InfoSec), if its employees rights can't be respected (CA employees can sue if they're not paid on time… how's payroll doing?), etc. at a minimum he's going to have to bring in an army of expensive emergency temps just to keep the lights on. there is some evidence that elon is walking back his 2.0 offer/threat, TBD if it's too late.
