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by nullindividual 919 days ago
> But what we haven't seen is twitter the actual website/platform implode like many engineers predicted.

Twitter had plenty of issues post-firing. There were outages, features not working correctly, etc.

Let's not forget that the firing was a giant f-up, poorly planned, and done at the behest of a mentally ill billionaire.

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> were outages, features not working correctly, etc.

But then it stabilised. While launching new features. Twitter's value destruction has been entirely a function of Musk's personal antics. Not their engineering quality.

yup, you've taken words right out of my mouth. I am just curious what was the output of the 85% of engineers that were fired. Mind you, among them were ver senior/director level, so it wasn't just college graduates and middle managers
There are still many features not working.

I used to search within lists (was like the best feature of Twitter, for my usage) quite a bit -- after Musk gutted the team after taking over, it no longer works, and has been that way for many months.

It also had issues before the take over.