Twitter Once Again

According to The Verge, the workforce is missing critical team members. Last night they wrote this:

We don’t know how many of Twitter’s employees looked at Elon Musk’s “take three months’ severance or agree to stay and get Xtreme” offer and decided to head for the exits, but by all available accounts, it was a lot of them.

As my colleagues Alex Heath and Mia Sato report, the departure of entire important teams leads people who know Twitter well to think that it’s only a matter of time until things break down. According to the New York Times, some “critical” employees were pulled into meetings with Musk and his advisors, who tried to persuade them to stay as the time ticked down.

Teams missing include infrastructure, security, content moderation, and others. In other words, it’s not a question of if but a question of when Twitter will face a critical disaster.

The World Cup starts this Sunday. It’s one of those critical traffic events. Usually, so are midterms. However, this year a lot of the press that usually hangs out on Twitter had already migrated to Mastodon.

Now there are many theories as to why Elon Musk is doing this. I prefer Occam’s Razor. He is doing this out of absolute hubris. The man believes he is that essential. He also believes that the wealthy are special and should direct the world.

Many of the Tech Bros he hangs up with also believe in longtermism. Here is a short definition of the term: