By Isabelle Winston-
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey(pictured) has openly mocked Elon Musk after the social media platform suffered a major outage.
Downdetector highlighted dozens of reports from users yesterday (February 9) who were experiencing issues with basic functions such as tweeting, sending DMs and following accounts.
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Used to be when anything went down, people went to Twitter to talk about it. Now look,” Dorsey posted on the decentralized social-media network Nostr, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Roughly an hour and a half had lapsed after users began reporting problems, before the company tweeted: “Twitter may not be working as expected for some of you. Sorry for the trouble. We’re aware and working to get this fixed.”
On Tuesday, Musk assembled a team of engineers and advisors into a room at Twitter’s headquarters seeking an answer to a puzzle he could not solve. That is to explain why the impressions on his twitter was not tallying with his huge following.
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“This is ridiculous,” he said, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. “I have more than 100 million followers, and I’m only getting tens of thousands of impressions.”
One of the company’s two remaining principal engineers offered a possible explanation for Musk’s declining reach: just under a year after the Tesla CEO made his surprise offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion, public interest in his antics is waning
Platformer reported that the fiasco occurred because an employee had accidentally deleted data for the service which sets rate limits, and the team responsible for that had left Twitter in November. Since Musk took over the company, employee numbers have fallen more than two-thirds, from over 7,000 to around 2,300 – per the billionaire himself.
Users conducted their ritual posting by scheduling tweets a minute in advance, which Dorsey also referenced, saying: “Twitter went from real time to 1 minute delay,” and joking: “What’s happening a minute from now?”
Dorsey’s Nostr profile is verified thanks to a unique key he posted on his Twitter account. In December, Dorsey said he donated 14 Bitcoin to Nostr – around $240,000 at the time, according to Markets Insider data.
Twitter suffered the biggest outage of Musk’s reign on Wednesday, after users were left unable to tweet, faced with the errant warning message: “You are over the daily limit for sending tweets.”
The international outage was also confirmed by Musk, who said in response to a message asking if Twitter was glitching: “Multiple internal & external issues simultaneously today. Should be fully back on track later tonight.”
Twitter’s support account also apologised for ‘the trouble’ and said they were ‘aware’ of the issue and were ‘working to get this fixed’.
Although the platform has since recovered, many are speculating whether the issue had something to do with Musk’s Twitter takeover.
The Tesla boss plans to charge $8 a month for those coveted blue ticks, while also laying off almost 50 percent of the company’s staff has attracted plenty of criticisms
As soon as Musk walked into the Twitter offices with a sink (to let the news “sink in”) on Oct. 28, one of the first steps was to cleanse the incumbent leadership.
Within hours, he fired the CEO Parag Agrawalhe CFO Ned Segal and the head of policy for security and privacy Vijaya Gadde. In the first two weeks those responsible for privacy, moderation, advertising, marketing left. Replaced by one fifty Tesla engineerscalled to make a emergency double job.
On Nov. 4, Twitter also began laying off employees at various levels of the company, with an email announcing the layoff after asking department heads to summarize each worker’s job in two lines.
His objective was to fire 50% of the 7,500 employees, but after Musk’s ultimatum to those who remained, many other workers left the company. Now Twitter has just over 2,000 employees, about 25% of the number it had fifty days ago.
Dorsey, who stepped down from his role as CEO in 2021, took to the decentralised social media platform Nostr to address a post by one of its users who was disappointed with the temporary flop on twitter. The post read: “Twitter is down, and look where I went to talk about it.”
In response, Dorsey said: “Used to be when anything went down, people went to Twitter to talk about it. Now look.”
The thread was immediately awash with comments, some sharing their relief they have somewhere to go if the main sites fail.
It was a bad look for Musk, whose many talents has established him as one of the geniuses of his generation when it comes to inventions and their accompanied success.
Data from the firm Bot Sentinel previously showed that 877,000 accounts were deactivated, and a further 497,000 were suspended between October 27 to November 1 – which, according to the firm, is double the usual number.
The tech billionaire was also recently criticised for reinstating banned accounts, including those belonging to former US president Donald Trump and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate. His subjective justification of the move was his favour for free speech and support he received for the idea from a limited number of people.
Advocates of Musk’s initiative and accomplishments point to the fact he has autism, as a credit to him whatever his weaknesses, given the conventional setbacks autistic people are known to face.
Musk’s huge shakeup of twitter was directed at instituting a wholesale transformation of the social media platform led to an exodus of the former top dogs at twitter, as the billionaire entrepreneur guru sought to establish a platform based on his own philosophy and ideologies. He will prioritize freedom of speech over other considerations against it, but with the criticisms that followed, negotiated a middle ground in which the rules of twitter will be open to public vote.
Twitter CEO: Elon Musk Image: biography.com
Frequently asking his audience whether they approved of scheduled plans he had for the platform, the billionaire reviewed his decisions according to public opinion- but from a sample not necessarily representative of the entire public using twitter.
But it was a reflection of his own inclination to act in the public interest, an objective many of his critics do not believe he fulfils.
Whatever the criticisms levied against Musk, he sees himself as the saviour of twitter and reformer of its former weaknesses, contrary to the view in growing circles that his take over has only worsened the quality of the platform.
The source of his assets prefer his return to dealing with electric cars full-time. After Musk sold 3.4 billion euros worth of Tesla shares, their value it’s almost 50% of last year’s. So much so that he is no longer the richest man in the world.
Last Thursday Musk wrote in response to a tweet that “Nobody who wants the job could really keep Twitter alive. There is no successor”. Also because it seems difficult to find a personality who can manage the company with Musk still the owner and very active on the platform. If Musk leaves control of Twitter as CEO, Would his polls still have decision-making value?
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