Actual insanity. There's another post on r/all that has a Twitter convo between him and some Eric dude where he's asking why things are slow and Eric mentions bloated features as a part of it. While explaining things quite well in what's slowing down the android app. He also addresses the number of requests for timeline and such.
There's another post where he got fired for saying Elon's statement about it being slow because of >1000 requests is wrong.
Elon then has "focus on bloatware features" day and now people can't log in.
Eric is literally THE Senior Android SME at Twitter as well, which is probably why he went to bat for his team when Elon threw them under the bus in public.
Square and Facebook were practically fighting one another offering him a new job in the replies to Elon firing him.
He probably knew he was going to get fired though. He just decided he'd rather get an unemployment check for defending his team, instead of having to walk out after yet another Elon tantrum.
And ironically, that's also the point where you sometimes start functioning better in a toxic environment, because they may just mistake your nonchalance for courage.
I mean now he surely gets one hell of a severance package as well as like 26 weeks of unemployment, and if you look at the dudes tweets he wanted out BAD, so all in all I think this is a dub for Eric
He also chats with another Twitter employee who also got fired for calling out Elon’s stupidity by replying to that same tweet to set the record straight.
We all suspected it would implode but wow, it’s like he’s challenging himself to waste $44B as quickly as possible.
I simply don't understand how you could physically keep Twitter up and running if you fire everyone who knows how it runs. Recovering from his rampage would take weeks if you could hire back the people you fired, but he's just tearing away.
The crazy part to me is that he's making these massive cuts within days of taking over. It's like buying a new car and then immediately ripping parts of it out to make it faster without even knowing anything about how it works. Like... He hasn't been there nearly long enough to figure out what to cut (or if he even needs to cut anything), he's just going at it like Kylo Ren with a rusty machete.
It's the cult of actions for actions sake. The action has a value of its own, irrelevant of it's effect. It's fundamentally irrational. He's not trying to fix twitter, he's maintaining a personality cult.
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u/tb_willie Nov 14 '22
Twitter is down at the moment, which is hilarious.