[troyvit]

I guess I know why you're getting downvoted. Saying Twitter is at death's door is like saying that sanctions are going to crush Russia any day now. People really really want to believe it despite all the evidence. Twitter is very much alive, and it's doing exactly what Musk wants it to do.

[Paradigma11]

I don't think those are comparable. Russia is running a war economy. Those run perfectly fine till they don't run at all.

[tayo42]

Yahoo search is up there for you to use. I wouldn't call that alive...

[transcriptase]

Exactly. When he fired 90% of the employees everyone here and on Reddit said it would fall apart within days due to the complexity of the systems that Elon’s employees and the remaining traitor engineers had no hope of maintaining.

When it didn’t fall apart in days, the goalposts were moved to “technical issues won’t become obvious right away, give it a few months”.

It’s been over 2 years and on a technical level running better than ever. You can disagree with the content and users all you wish, but pretending it’s dying because you hate the bad orange and mars man is delusional.

[lowercased]

>"It’s been over 2 years and on a technical level running better than ever"

Isn't it also simply doing less? Weren't some APIs shut off or reduced? My limited memory is having me think they reduced or shut down some functionality altogether, which would also help something run smoother. Fewer things running means fewer things can break.

[transcriptase]

No. Grok, spaces, community notes, long form videos, user payouts. It’s doing far more now than ever before.

[dicknuckle]

Nitter etc are locked out as far as I know. That was likely a huge load on the site.

[astroid]

Nitters up: https://nitter.net/search?f=users&q=elonmusk

They just closed a single API which was also abused by botfarms. Closing the API immediately improved the site from a spam perspective and was welcome by most actual users, likely all users who understood the impact.

This is pure cope - the site is doing a TON more than it used to, and more stable than ever.

Also arguing that a site that is designed to scrape and re-represent a website without ads or other stuff 'was likely a huge load' is a very weird argument to try and claim the site is no longer being used.

I can say anecdotally I used to use nitter, and while it didn't work for a few days I switched to the regular site. Now I would never go back. The actual site works better now, I have no need. On old twitter 1.0, nitter worked better.

Thats a black eye on Dorsey twitter, not the new twitter (or X or whatever you prefer)

[ceejayoz]

(and fewer users means lower load, as a bonus)

[johnnyanmac]

>It’s been over 2 years and on a technical level running better than ever.

Ask the worker's how they are doing, and then maybe I'll be convinced that it's "running better". When you grind 10x the users into the dirt, you can make up for cutting 90% of your staff. For a while. Especially in a crap economy like this where job hopping is harder.

I also agree that most of the cuts may have been managerial and logistics. It's probably a clown circus trying to do anything more than maintain.

I agree only on a surface level that it looks better. But old tech dies very hard. Digg is technically still up today. Myspace is technically still up today. hell, 4chan is still arguably bustling.

[mandeepj]

Well, did he fire 90% of engineering team? I don't think so. That's the critical piece of mass thinking you are missing.

[transcriptase]

I’m not missing anything, seeing as I wasn’t part of the crowd convinced the site would be non-functional as a result of Elon’s decisions.

[archagon]

“Move fast and break things” seems like a horrible approach when things like Social Security and Medicare payments are on the line. If a few thousand random tweets get lost in a refactor, nobody cares. If somebody stops receiving their checks because Whiz Kid #3 doesn’t know how to work with an enterprise database system, what does that person do? Who do they escalate to?

[rcpt]

It takes a long time to build up a strong nation. It takes a few weeks to tear it down.