Why Twitter will fail shortly

ZDNet ^ | 8 November 2022 | Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

[ShadowAce]

[rktman]

🤔. Is this when the claim of a 7,000% (or 9,000%) increase in racis’/homophobic/anti Semitic comments occurs. Guess someone read it on the interweb so it must be true. 😵🐎💩

[blueunicorn6]

I wonder how Steve feels about Twitter.

[FlingWingFlyer]

(((YAWN))) We’re doomed again. What will we do without the TWITS on Twitter?

[AppyPappy]

It’s not uncommon for billionaires to think developers are overpaid clerks and they don’t trust managers to tell them who is needed because the answer is always “all of them”. Slash and burn in the IT department is just going to end in disaster. Eventually, the site will just stop working.

Maybe that is his plan.

[Grampa Dave]

I wonder how Steve feels about Twitter.

Also, does Steve currently have a vested interest with a Twitter competitor?

[metmom]

You can't lay off half of the staff of a cloud-based social network and expect things to keep running smoothly for Twitter's 450 million monthly active users.

Sure you can when they don’t do anything all day.

He’s working on the naive presumption that all those twitter employees put in full 8 hour days actually doing something productive, something besides banning people they disagree with.

[SpaceBar]

Replace everything computer related in the above article with some government function from running the FDA to printing stamps, and you get the typical big-government mindset where all those useless paper-pushers are ‘essential’.

[jz638]

I love reading these predictions of doom for twitter from ex employees and fanbois comign from the premise that Musk wants the company to stay the exact same company with the exact same business model and same corporate objectives.

[GOPJ]

Left wing thugs will deliberately destroy the site - with trolls, twisted laws, and democrat thuggery. Sabotage... Biden the buggy has already spoken of it.

[Pollard]

I think he'll get it figured out. He's got Tesla devs in there now and can always bring in a few SpaceX devs.

[silent majority rising]

If I were Elon, I would ban ‘Steve’ from Twitter.

[Pollard]

Also: Leftist fear and loathing

[SunkenCiv]

Don't worry, Joe's got this:

• Joe Biden Signals Support for Investigation of Elon Musk Acquiring Twitter: 'There's Lots of Ways' [11/09/2022]
• Musk lays out Twitter mission, sparks debate on content accuracy [11/07/2022]
• Elon Musk Gets Last Laugh, Report Shows User Growth For Twitter Hitting All Time Highs Under The 'New Sheriff In Town' [11/07/2022]
• Hilarious: Elon Tells Kathy Griffin How to Get Her Twitter Account Back as She Continues to Melt Down [11/07/2022]
• How to Delete Your Twitter (And the Social Media Sites You Should Log Onto Next) [11/07/2022]
• Whoopi Goldberg claims she's quitting Twitter over Elon Musk: 'I'm out' [11/07/2022]
• 'See you in court:' Pregnant Twitter employee tells Elon Musk after being laid off [11/07/2022]
• Elon Musk Confirms -- Twitter employees were secretly selling Bluechecks for $15,000 each... [11/06/2022]
• Ex-Twitter owner, Jack Dorsey launches new social media platform Bluesky social [11/06/2022]

[JimRed]

...Twitter's 450 million monthly active users.

Of which probably 300 million are bots. Prove me wrong.

[ConservativeWarrior]

Hyphenated beta male author lamenting the fall of his safe space.

Next!

[glorgau]

Cloud services - most users of cloud services overpay.

They do this because up until lately there have been no good methods for determining how much (memory, compute, bandwidth)is needed to run a particular task. So, the default has been to provision more than is likely to be needed. However, new methods have lately emerged that allow an almost exact calculation of resources needed. From presentations I’ve seen, savings are usually in the 40%-60% range.

[Jeff Chandler]

Twitter will fail shortly

He says that like it's a bad thing.

[absalom01]

Put it all together, and it's not "if" Twitter will crash soon; it's "when." I won't be surprised if Election Day brings it down. If not, I give Twitter until the end of the month before its next major crash. And, when will it come back up? That's a darn good question. I won't be surprised if it takes days or even weeks.

Oh. Well, that didn't happen. I'm no fan of Twitter, even with Musk at the helm, but this guy's wishcasting is just retarded.