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by Phlarp 626 days ago
>'our software is done, send all the programmers home.'

Twitter

2 comments

If only.

Pre-musk, links to random tweets seemed to load almost instantly. Now?

Last time I tried, took 48 seconds to show a "please login or create account" message.

My Performa 5200 in the 1990s booted up faster than that.

If he'd kept things as is, without fiddling, that would've been an improvement over what he actually did.

Still, I'm glad he reduced my compulsive use of the service.

According to Fidelity, Twitter has gone from a 44 billion dollar company to less than 10 in 2 years. Clearly we should not be using it as an example of how to run a technology business.