You mean the 80% of the workforce that was fired and the company continued running just fine?

Usually just firing 3 to 5% of any company workers have terrible consequences for the company that does it.

It does not speak so well about the workers.

mattbillenstein 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

He also cut 80% of the traffic... And the fact that it kept running with him willy nilly pulling network cables is a credit to the work they did to make it resilient to failure.

	▲	iknowstuff 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Source on pre/post traffic numbers?

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keeda 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't understand this take. Do people think engineers go in to work to turn handcranks to keep the machines running? It's actually a credit to the automation built by the engineers he fired that it kept running!

At the time I joked that like Chaos Monkey, we should have an "Elon Monkey" to "fire" arbitrary people by sending them on mandatory vacations with no connectivity to see what falls over.

	▲	spullara 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		the people that built the infrastructure that runs twitter left before he showed up. most of it was written by a half dozen people that left around 2016.

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watwut 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It was significantly worst, could not keep ads, became overrun by bots. The quality went down significantly. And earnings too.