[Crimson Dynamo]

I swear I looked at one CrossFit lady doing squats and now my feed is like Muscle Beach during ladies week

[UserSince2005]

Only trump can save twitter now.

[bots]

Twitter today is awash with people saying goodbye.

The hashtag "RIPTwitter" is trending and lots of the site's users are scrambling to download their data.

They're also sharing alternative places to find them (consumer champion Martin Lewis, who has two million Twitter followers, has set himself up on Mastodon, although he admits he doesn't know how to use it yet).

Twitter's new boss Elon Musk, never one to ignore a trend, tweeted a meme of a gravestone with the Twitter logo on it.

taff have been leaving in their droves - half the workforce was laid off by Mr Musk one week after he completed his purchase of the platform, and many more are choosing to leave since he sent an email demanding "hardcore" working conditions and long hours from his remaining employees.

Quite a few of those departing, according to their Twitter bios, are engineers, developers and coders - the people who work on the guts of what makes Twitter function.

[MTVN]

Good stuff from Musk this, I sense that talk of the death of twitter has been greatly exaggerated

[Crimson Dynamo]

the hard left VS in meltdown

[bots]

musk is just making **** up as he goes along without thinking things through, so it's anyones guess how it will turn out

[bots]

Advertisers are just going to love having their products shown beside Trumps outbursts if he allows Trump's return ....... He needs money from advertisers and unbanning Trump isn't going to achieve that

[Oliver_W]

I don't get why more of the Twits aren't taking the layoff with all that severance pay - not only would they be getting paid for having the Festive period off, but they'd be away from one of the Internet's most toxic website.

If they weren't just seatwarmers who facilitated the "bloatware" it wouldn't be hard for them to find another tech job.

[user104658]

Twitter is, when it comes down to it, a website; so long as it has server farms up it will stay up. ... ... it doesn't need more than a few devs to stay running. It isn't going to break over night without software developers. He may well bankrupt the company and end up having to sell at a massive loss but even then it wouldn't necessarily stop functioning. The online reason Twitter will go offline is if Musk decides to TAKE it offline.

Think about TiBB for a much much smaller scale example; if James abandonned it tomorrow but someone continued paying the server fees, it would still be here working exactly as it does now in 5 years time. Not exactly the same with twitter but the same principle. You need devs to update and innovate, you don't need them to keep the lights on.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

Twitter is, when it comes down to it, a website; so long as it has server farms up it will stay up. ... ... it doesn't need more than a few devs to stay running. It isn't going to break over night without software developers. He may well bankrupt the company and end up having to sell at a massive loss but even then it wouldn't necessarily stop functioning. The online reason Twitter will go offline is if Musk decides to TAKE it offline.

Think about TiBB for a much much smaller scale example; if James abandonned it tomorrow but someone continued paying the server fees, it would still be here working exactly as it does now in 5 years time. Not exactly the same with twitter but the same principle. You need devs to update and innovate, you don't need them to keep the lights on.

Not James and Elon Musk essentially being the same person

[bots]

apparently twitter servers are in house and not sub contracted out so a lack of staff could affect that. As I understand it, the app has become much more buggy in recent days, which could simply be a result of musk doing his own coding