So today links stopped working on Twitter lol
Somehow my Mastodon server (mastodon.social) also went down as this was happening. We used to have proper social networks in this country I swear to god
Elon and the Goons spent the past four months working to identify the best, most critical, most TECHNICAL workers at the company, and now the result is that links don't work when you click them
“Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We fired 6,300 people and stopped paying the AWS bill”
@caseynewton all links 301 to Elon's profile page in what is being called the Attention Deficit update.
@caseynewton is that bad orrrr
@anildash @caseynewton (newscaster voice) earlier today, links stopped working on twitter, we're not su-
(touches earbud)
hearing now that twitter has stopped working on twitter
@anildash @caseynewton Who needs links on the internet?
@caseynewton “move fast and break things” lol
@caseynewton layoff maximalists will tell you it isn't real
@caseynewton It's flat out down now.
@dirtyoldtown @caseynewton It's down if you're logged out; if you were already logged in, you can browse the site, but all images and outgoing links are broken.
@dirtyoldtown @caseynewton (My educated guess is that the logged-out UI is making an API call to the login flow that is failing.)
@caseynewton Images are down too lol
@caseynewton i can't go directly to a profile if i enter it as a URL. i can only find a profile by searching for it on twitter's search engine.
i check a few profiles for news and research since i no longer have an account there. i don't know if this affects users logged in through a web browser.
And the back doors on Teslas no longer open.
@caseynewton So #Elon fires staffers who take care of stuff, and then, surprise, that stuff breaks. It's basically the #Republican governing philosophy in action.
@caseynewton no we didn't.
@thevowel @caseynewton finger and plan files were the peak of social networks, it was all downhill from there.
@caseynewton When I was a boy social networks just worked!
@caseynewton twitter is once again down.
@caseynewton i mean, firing 80% of people that run things seems pretty dumb. Since twitter is having downtimes right now, is proving to be quite dumb...
@caseynewton Pictures and gifs not working either. Incredible scenes.
@Lizzie @caseynewton Back to the roots ;)
@caseynewton They were at, what, 7500 employees?
@mrcippy @caseynewton Sounds about right.
I mean, practically every business has chaff, but that's just bonkers. And yet they still retain one person with massively negative output.
@caseynewton omg is this supposed to be tongue in cheek? With Megan you never know, other than the column will be bad
EDIT OMG it's as bad as it looks
@caseynewton [Image description: screenshot of a February 2023 Megan McArdle opinion column in the Washington Post, "How Elon Musk fired Twitter staff and broke nothing" (https://archive.is/CmfMs)] #Alt4You
@nev @caseynewton I think another valid image description would be "wah-wah trombone noise in headline form"
And now I can’t even access the website. All I get is a json response.
@gunadi @caseynewton I really dislike these articles, "such and such and unexpected outcome" to lure you in and usually it is all BS. For me it is very simple, like the laws of physics.
"For every action in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction."
@caseynewton well, you kinda have to post it here since you can't post it on Twitter.
@caseynewton She is such a clown.
@caseynewton from the queen of well-aged hot takes
@caseynewton note that both twitter.com and tweetdeck.com are busted …
@caseynewton I'd post that on Twitter, but...
@caseynewton I’m betting Tweetdeck does not come back. At least initially. He will blame it on their “API upgrades”. When in reality it doesn’t show ads and he wants the money.
Then, when enough major corps and big follower accounts complain he will bring it back. Because he likely has no idea how anyone uses Twitter and doesn’t care.
@caseynewton How exactly I keep getting told that "nothing interesting happens in your part of the world" while columns like these get published, the world wonders
@caseynewton I read that at the time hoping it was ironic. It was not. That's when I stopped reading her stuff.
@caseynewton reminded me to do this. Anyone publishing that waste of space on purpose, even in opinion, has no judgement worth trusting
@potatogunkelly billionaires stick together, got to have someone to do those lines of adrenochrome with after the nukes begin to fall
@potatogunkelly @caseynewton the WaPo writer who made a joke about him visiting his son's grave was when I had enough.
@caseynewton Tesla's engineers are doing a great job at Twitter, they are crashing the site just as the cars
@caseynewton For reasons passing understanding, I still listen @KCRW’s Left, Right, and Center podcast. Ms. McArdle is one in a series of recent right-wing regulars who seem to be working really hard at avoiding fact-based argument.
@caseynewton The pseudo-critical McArdle is always good for a laugh. 
@caseynewton Has Ms. McArdle ever had a good op-ed? I can't remember one
@caseynewton payroll PR fake journalist hack
@caseynewton Haha, they really have it out for the pitchbot.
@caseynewton you can always count on her to be wrong
@caseynewton she's always racing to be the wrongest person lol