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@AvidHalaby: The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread ...…
This is insane! Parag and other executives were brazenly defrauding and misleading the board, and all shareholders.
Not to mention the egregious engineering practices.
Truly. That’s a mind-blowing, unholy amount of malfeasance and mismanagement that is both obscuring and contributing to the treasonous conspiracy that Twitter was plainly a major party to. While I, like every other fan of the truth and/or super-based hip-hop, would love to see Bryson Gray’s Twitter account restored, like, now, I hope everyone can appreciate the near-miraculous amount of work and effort that Elon Musk and the patriots now ensconced at Twitter have done so far, and continue to do every day. Give them your patience and grace; I honestly believe that all the ideologically-banned accounts will be back online as soon as possible, or practical. And that will, very likely, include Kanye’s, too. 👍
The sheer scope of the investigation that they had to do for each of the structured drops is immense. It's just staggering. I doubt that any of the investigators got much sleep.
... and they're still at it, releasing almost-daily deluges documenting earthshaking criminal conspiracies. All while also a) running that company on a fraction of the former staff (although definitely addition-by-subtraction in effect there), b) rolling out new features in days and weeks that the old Twitter couldn't manage in years, c) dealing with obviously increased sabotage from boycotting advertisers, axe-grinding vendors, bot farms, hackers, angry former workers and confederate hold-overs, SF bureaucrats, etc., d) navigating and fixing all those non-existent tools, broken practices, and grotesque policies.
It's one of the most amazing things I could imagine; I can't wait to hear the full story one day. To all the people justifiably frustrated that their banned accounts haven't yet been restored, their patience will be rewarded - but I hope they might be able to understand why everything hasn't happened all at once. (Although, all things considered, in the grand scheme of things, it's sure come awful close to an amazing everything-at-once!)
The founding fathers would call it Providence
This is what Elon was hinting at when he tried to back out of the deal. They could have kept their secrets… and been sued by shareholders. Or they could have forced the sale and been exposed to Elon’s internal investigation.
I bet he has a team of lawyers reviewing all the DMs.
Sounds like your typical liberal ran IT shit show. The more left leaning the middle management is, the more of a shit show it is. Everytime. They hate change! They would rather keep a broken system in place than risk breaking it to fix it.
What a shitshow...
There was a REASON the Twitter staff received ridiculous perks.....to keep them loyal and obedient when asked to perform unethical or illegal requests by management
Eh, these perks weren't uncommon in that (utterly frivolous) industry, but at the same time, you're not wrong. There was plainly nothing special and valuable about the people they hired, other than their fervent ideological bent, but once people there became aware of the company's massive and obvious government-involved conspiracy to suppress our Constitutional rights, making it difficult for people to leave (including making the perks, and the comically low workload, very attractive) was important.
Sounds kind of like the plot of The Firm, or The Devil's Advocate, only with blue-haired wastrel trannies.
They found the people who could easily be bought, and who were only too happy to trade their morals and the nation they lived in for big money, loads of perks, and the ability to brag about said money and perks to every out-of-work/financially struggling conservative person they could find
A lot of these employees were not American to begin with and simply did not have things like true freedom in their DNA. It is literally a foreign concept to them, and they've been taught all their lives to look down on it as selfish, backward, oppressive and racist.
That's the real reason why there's so many H1Bs working in big tech.
Just say "FUBAR" lol
I think FUBAR is understating what was transpiring at Twitter HQ for a long time.
The incompetence shown by Agrawal is fucking criminal and insane! Having a Background in IT and Operations, Its a wonder that Twatter even worked as well as it did. The Major Incidents that that place churned out would have made me believe in heavy day drinking and hitting up my local pot shop on the hour!
I'm picturing this one guy they locked in the control room who actually kept everything running. They'd throw food and Mountain Dew at him to keep him going and never let him out. He's probably still there, somewhere, maybe hiding under the floorboards of the control room, the unsung hero of Twitter.
the reality was, 50% of the tens of thousands of employees had access to modify and push code whenever they felt like it, and a room of about a dozen real engineers working around the clock to fix everything and keep it running in the conditions you outlined.
Yes. Jack was bad....but Parag was FAR worse. Hopefully, they'll BOTH be held accountable.
How did soy boi Jack get to be so rich.
Apparently, he could not run a company for shit.
Clearly he was a paid figurehead.
Bonkers! I'm not a fan of Musk but it's great that all these docs are dropping now.
The smugness is beyond
Theory: HR favoured woke hiring/firing/promotions so much that even a competent junior programmer can't last long enough to implement improvements.
I think you are spot on. Wasn't Twitter, like, a decade late in even being able to implement an "Edit" feature? It's like this fully-functioning social-network platform was somehow conjured into existence (by DARPA? CIA?🤔), and then it was just handed it off to woke monkeys for a decade and a half of utter wankery (and, oh, seditious conspiracy to suppress constitutional rights and completely ban truth from public discussion).
Seriously.
The jaw-dropping tales of the unimaginable dysfunction are, I presume, just starting.