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For some people this is a collapse of infrastructure. Social infrastructure, of course, in obvious ways, but also organizing infrastructure and survival and care infrastructure. Remember: A billionaire is doing this bc he does not like who was allowed to build influence on here.

Puff the Magic Hater (@MsKellyMHayes)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:03 GMT

I think something is having an outage because my Twitter timeline is in the chronological order even though I'm opted in to see the top tweets 😁

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:33 GMT

We owe this to the guy, most of us will never suffer from the imposter syndrome until the end of the time. twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:36 GMT

After Elon Musk, the next 3 top shareholders in Twitter are: Blackrock, Vanguard and SSgA. They are also the top 3 shareholders in the world's largest arms company, Lockheed Martin. Strange idiosyncrasies and probable incompetence aside, it's a big club; is Musk really in it?

Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 10:04 GMT

This is the sad part. The way we interact on here is completely different than any other app. Even if you end up following each other on insta or tiktok it’s just not the same level of communication.

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bro if twitter goes down, you and your mutuals may never interact on the internet ever again. like i may never see y’all or other creatives again

Kemi Marie (@kemimarie)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:34 GMT

Selena (@SelenaShines)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:34 GMT

bro if twitter goes down, you and your mutuals may never interact on the internet ever again. like i may never see y’all or other creatives again

Kemi Marie (@kemimarie)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:34 GMT

every one of us needs to pack it up and head to linkedin right now and send the world’s middle management community insane. like what are they gonna do.

red (@thomas_k_r)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:31 GMT

https://twitter.com/UrsulaBot/status/1593506334539845632

subtweeting elon

x (@xnxnxmA)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 07:41 GMT

Good to hear. Having no outages means there will never be outages, no new capacity issues, no new cascading failures, no bad pushes, nothing. We will freeze in time and my tweets will go into /dev/null. I wished I was smart enough to come up with this idea at work.

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Twitter still seems to be operating fine with...checks notes... 70% fewer employees in a week. If the rumors hold true it will be down 88% since acquisition by Monday. My bet is the site stays up.

twitter.com/alexeheath/sta…

Michael Guimarin (@MichaelGuimarin)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:06 GMT

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:42 GMT

Honestly though, RIP Instagram too, which is just screenshots of tweets.

Max Miller (@ohhelloitsmax)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:58 GMT

Twitter right now has the energy of when you say bye after hanging out with a friend but then you’re both walking in the same direction for another block.

R. Eric Thomas (@oureric)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 04:06 GMT

https://twitter.com/EmilyKager/status/1593499186258845697

tech twitter was an (mostly) amazing, (mostly) supportive, (mostly) fun place to be where i connected with awesome people, made some real friends, and had some laughs. my life would be much different if i hadn't made an account. see ya'll sometime soon hopefully, somewhere else.

Emily Kager (@EmilyKager)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 07:10 GMT

maybe the real treasure were the main characters we dunked on along the way

Emily Kager (@EmilyKager)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 06:58 GMT

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alex 🐀 (@tinysnekcomics)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:21 GMT

alex 🐀 (@tinysnekcomics)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 04:51 GMT

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1593501009808072705

Elon is the worlds wealthiest man, w the ability to pull in software engineers and ad constructs from his other companies. If he would have gotten away with this successfully: you bet other founders would have followed, treating their staff like this. Treat people with respect.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 07:09 GMT

The one positive outcome of what happened at Twitter is we see what happens when you treat employees with contempt and disrespect. Don’t communicate with them, fire half, change working conditions with no notice, fire those who criticise you, then give them an ultimatum.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 07:07 GMT

We should probably have a serious discussion about the ease with which a billionaire haphazardly purchased & immediately destroyed a company that employed 7,500 people and facilitated essential communication for hundreds of millions.

Avi Bueno (@Avi_Bueno)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:57 GMT

My friend at @Twitter says it's all running on @elonmusk's laptop now and he got the last engineer pregnant and they had a baby and the baby looked him right in the eyes and said "$8"

Jermaine Tong (@passionfingerz)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:11 GMT

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1593501556858560514

We now have the playbook of how not to acquire a company, even when your goal is to cut costs. Nothing wrong with wanting to cut costs. A little empathy and planning would have gone a long way. And some - dare I say - leadership that motivates people positively?

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 07:12 GMT

last week: "what's mastodon?" this week: "let's spin up our own instance for the craic"

@skipcloud@inane.chat (@skipcloud)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:46 GMT

they just need one 7500x engineer

🍅 (@turtlekiosk)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:21 GMT

so long suckers! i rev up my motorcylce and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement

wint (@dril)Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:26 +0000

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1593411889161273345

Really gotta hand it to the (possibly former) SREs and developers who built this place stable enough that it’s still running this far into Hurricane Elon.

Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:25 GMT

tumblr has completely crashed just now from all the people making new accounts on there lmfao

transgender marx (@JUNlPER)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:04 GMT

elon at the twitter 2.0 all-hands meeting

Dan Favale (@danfavale)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:53 GMT

I hope they forwarded all pagerduty alerts to him

malice ghoulpus (@alicegoldfuss)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:41 GMT

now yall see why I've been screaming for the past year that we *have* to DECOUPLE OUR DATA FROM THESE APPS! One bad sale and now we're all sitting around hoping we don't completely lose the networks and content we've spent years building! 😡

Angie Jones (@techgirl1908)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:34 GMT

RIP to everything in my bookmarks. I really planned to go back to it one day.

Morgan Elise Johnson (@MorganEliseJ)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:47 GMT

Oh shit lol. Twitter HQ in San Francisco tonight

Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:36 GMT

https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593365103331577856

Twitter’s Slack currently has hundreds of employees giving the 🫡 emoji, meaning they decided to not stay for Musk’s “Twitter 2.0” cultural reset. The company had just under 3,000 employees remaining before the deadline to say “yes” or not hit 20 min ago.

Alex Heath (@alexeheath)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:20 GMT

you think astrology is fucked up? some parents believe the shape of a baby's genitals predicts their favorite toys, hobbies, and colors

Willard Killmore (@willrad)Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:42 GMT

Learned that the Roomba is programmed in a dialect of Lisp. I guess that makes sense, because the hardware is optimized for garbage collection.

Dan Ports, @dan@discuss.systems (@danrkports)Tue, 02 Mar 2021 23:49 GMT

um giant penis is a family name that means a lot to me

Amy-Leigh Gemstone (lolennui@mas.to) (@lolennui)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:56 GMT

Scoop: I am hearing far fewer than expected devs hit "yes". Elon sent out an email relaxing remote working from the former draconian policy. I'm hearing he is having meetings w top engineers to convince them to stay. Sounds like playing hardball does not work. Ofc it doesn't.

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Scoop: Elon Musk just sent an email to all staff outlining "Twitter 2.0", writing it will"need to be extremely hardcore". Long hours, high intensity. People need to click "yes" to confirm being part of this by 5pm ET tomorrow, else they get 3 months severance. More details:

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:46 GMT

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:09 GMT

Elon is like a Frankenstein built out of every toxic trait I've ever experienced at a workplace. I feel so bad for the folks still at twitter ❤️

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Scoop: I am hearing far fewer than expected devs hit "yes". Elon sent out an email relaxing remote working from the former draconian policy. I'm hearing he is having meetings w top engineers to convince them to stay. Sounds like playing hardball does not work. Ofc it doesn't.

twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/s…

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:09 GMT

Josh W. Comeau (@JoshWComeau)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:08 GMT

If Royal Mail cannot turn a profit while providing the services it is legally mandated to provide, then its equity value is zero and it should be renationalised at no cost to the taxpayer twitter.com/bbcscotlandnew…

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Royal Mail asks to stop Saturday letter deliveries bbc.in/3hQ7K9u

BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:46 GMT

official (@alexhern)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:38 GMT

https://twitter.com/mjackson/status/1593361109729222656

Not new. Was Open Source before acquisition. Here is a tweet from that account on acquisition day referencing the repo under the old Birdwatch name twitter.com/CommunityNotes…

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In the spirit of transparency, Birdwatch makes everything and the kitchen sink public and open source. Today, we’re sharing a paper that details the research, analysis and outcomes that informed its development and helped us understand its performance. 📊 github.com/twitter/birdwa…

Community Notes (@CommunityNotes)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:42 +0000

Ant Parody Stanley (@IamStan)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:55 GMT

Just cranking out the retro takes like he’s Jeff Jarvis in 2006. Truly a visionary with his finger on the pulse.

buzz@andersen.social (@buzz)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:08 GMT

kink, including consensual non-consent, is not “produced by rape culture,” “sad,” or “scary.” we have been over this as, like, a society, multiple times. this is an effect of the pathologizing of kink & the criminalization of BDSM. & you’re making it worse with this kinda shit.

🌬Doctrix Snow (she/her) (@MistressSnowPhD)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:48 GMT

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Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:10 GMT

I can’t hear you over the sounds of their big meat double penetrating me twitter.com/zombienation10…

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https://twitter.com/marinaxdove/status/1593313580904071168

Congrats on finding two incredibly weak men with no self respect who were willing to participate

DP (@ZombieNation108)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:48 GMT

marina 🌿 (@marinaxdove)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:52 GMT

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Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in. Break them up.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:35 GMT

SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:57 GMT

American healthcare is fun because I feel like I’m in a Game of Thrones style story of political intrigue between the warring factions of my doctor, my insurance company, and the manufacturer of my medication who all disagree with each other and meanwhile my colon is like

Hank Green (@hankgreen)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:28 GMT

At Web Summit, @ben_mckenzie and @molly0xFFF were on stage with Charles Hoskinson, talking about how much retail investors had lost. Hoskinson said, I lost $2 billion and that on the path to mass crypto adoption they'll break some plates. "Those plates are people," Molly said.

Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:37 GMT

Win or lose. It’s his way out. John Wick: Chapter 4 - only in cinemas & IMAX March 24. #JW4

Lionsgate UK (@LionsgateUK)Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:02 GMT

https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/1592917584390680576

Update: Twitter HR is now telling everyone who does not sign the ridiculous new pledge they have resigned. Employment law does not work that way. You cannot deprive people of unemployment benefits and wrongful termination cases by saying that they resigned. Nice try though!

Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:29 GMT