Twitter: The crisis continues. As Elon Musk continues to force a 180-degree turnaround on an ever-diminishing workforce, the stability of the platform is now at stake. Indeed, sources have confirmed that Twitter may soon be shutting down.
Twitter : la plateforme pourrait cesser de fonctionner cette nuit
Twitter: The crisis continues
The speed at which Elon Musk makes structural changes to Twitter is unprecedented for a company of this size. After firing many of the employees and refusing to let the remaining ones work from home, the man decided to ask them to prove they were “hardcore” enough to stay with the company.
Absolutely unpopular decisions that led to the remaining employees leaving: This was shown by a current employee survey 42% of the 180 people surveyed had decided to leave the country. 25% stayed, but “reluctantly”.
A dissatisfaction that forced Musk to make rare concessions. Several employees were reinstated and the ban on working from home was lifted in order to retain employees. But at this point, Twitter no longer has a communications-related department, and many key areas have been sunk. Which calls into question the existence of the social network.
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Is Twitter not working anymore?
Among the employees who left the ship voluntarily or by force, there were indeed Engineers and platform stability managers. As the teams responsible for fixing the bugs are disbanded, the company’s internal Twitter network began to slow down yesterday. And the technical issues could quickly spread to the public release, according to an inside source.
The platform could actually stop working tonight because nobody would be able to fix it:
“If it breaks there is no one to fix Elements of a large number of domains. »
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A possibility that doesn’t seem to worry Elon Musk, the latter of whom has been posting jokes on Twitter since yesterday:
How do you make a small fortune on social media?
Start with a big one.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2022
A joke that isn’t a joke? Elon Musk has indeed raised the possibility of Twitter bankruptcy, in an internal session. According to The New York Times, the billionaire claimed the company simply didn’t have enough cash to survive. However, it should be noted that the billionaire confirmed that the network had taken a record of usage last night despite the premises being closed.
Does the Twitter case show us the need for communication platforms? more decentralized and less dependent on a big boss? Unless we know what the future of Twitter will be, it is likely that it will change certain uses of social networking in the long term.
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