twitter also turned off their api for anyone who hadn’t paid them, but didn’t realize their own apps and website use the same api. So the whole site stopped working for like an hour.
:my-hero: .
A smart and rational system where the person with the most power in a company can’t be fired even as he destroys said company.
Selling the noose that hangs them. It’s so good. :stalin-feels-good:
He can be fired though. He doesn’t control 50%+ of the private stock.
Corporate board can strip him of everything.
Yeltsin of Twitter
This is like Christmas for the experts in software incidents that I follow. They’re like “I will seriously pay money to be able to go to the post-mortem for this”
lol I often say i would kill to go to a lot of postmortems, i’ve been saying it a lot lately about twitter
who is it that you follow? that sounds right up my alley
These people are excellent at their craft and their tweets seriously broaden my understanding about incidents:
- https://twitter.com/norootcause
- https://twitter.com/ahidalgosre
- https://twitter.com/this_hits_home
- https://twitter.com/themortalemily
Also this dude just rocks, and posts so many insightful things about stuff like systems thinking, software philosophy and Marxism. I wish there were more thinkers like him in our industry:
critical support to musk for blowing away thirty billion dollars of a rich asshole’s wealth
Yeah unfortunately losing money on the stock market only really results in making some other rich asshole richer.
Concerning.
This is what happens when you just turn systems off until you find out what breaks.
