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The cherry (or turd?) on top is that the platform is manned by a skeleton crew.

I kid you not: I recently saw a screenshot of a post by an engineer asking ex-Twitter engineers for help debugging an issue.. on Blind. Mind you, I don’t blame the engineer at all: it just gives you an idea of the mess Musk has made for himself.

I think the fact that the platform is still running is a testament to those who built & documented the infra. It’s also a feather on the cap for those who remain to man the ship, particularly if there was no other choice.

One catastrophic outage is all it really takes at this point.




I can confirm this is true. Both that Twitter is running on a skeleton crew and that engineers are asking ex-engineers for help.




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