[cladopa]

You mean the 80% of the workforce that was fired and the company continued running just fine?

Usually just firing 3 to 5% of any company workers have terrible consequences for the company that does it.

It does not speak so well about the workers.

[mattbillenstein]

He also cut 80% of the traffic... And the fact that it kept running with him willy nilly pulling network cables is a credit to the work they did to make it resilient to failure.

[iknowstuff]

Source on pre/post traffic numbers?

[mattbillenstein]

I don't have it at hand, but if you look at all the products and apis they cut - and then all the users who abandoned it in the first few months, I think that's how this was derived.

[keeda]

I don't understand this take. Do people think engineers go in to work to turn handcranks to keep the machines running? It's actually a credit to the automation built by the engineers he fired that it kept running!

At the time I joked that like Chaos Monkey, we should have an "Elon Monkey" to "fire" arbitrary people by sending them on mandatory vacations with no connectivity to see what falls over.

[spullara]

the people that built the infrastructure that runs twitter left before he showed up. most of it was written by a half dozen people that left around 2016.

[watwut]

It was significantly worst, could not keep ads, became overrun by bots. The quality went down significantly. And earnings too.