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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 ...…
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.