Twitter's system update is necessary to meet Elon Musk's demands, but it is falling into a ``death spiral'' due to dismissing employees too much



Businessman Elon Musk has tried to make various changes to the platform called Twitter, such as extending the maximum number of characters in tweets and modifying the algorithm of the timeline shown to users since he took office on Twitter. I'm here. However, it is reported that he was unable to cope with a huge amount of code changes due to mass dismissal immediately after taking office as CEO.

Under Elon Musk, Twitter is stuck in a recurring code loop nightmare
https://www.fastcompany.com/90848175/twitter-stuck-in-code-loop-nightmare

Twitter staff concerned over 'massive' problems with site and warn of more issues to come
https://inews.co.uk/news/twitter-staff-concerned-over-massive-problems-with-site-and-warn-of-more-issues-to-come-2139083

On February 9, 2023, a failure occurred in which tweets could not be posted with the message ``You have exceeded the daily tweet sending limit''.

A global failure including Japan occurred on Twitter, an error message saying 'the limit of sending tweets for one day was exceeded' - GIGAZINE



Fast Company, an IT news site, indicates that one of the underlying causes of this failure may be Twitter's repeated repairs. According to Fast Company, Twitter frequently ' freezes ' code, and fixes to the platform's source code are not progressing well. In other words, if something goes wrong, a huge amount of code modifications will occur, making it difficult to figure out what is causing the problem.

On Twitter, various reforms are underway under Mask CEO, such as adding a function to post long sentences exceeding 280 characters and reviewing the recommendation algorithm that shows tweets to users . However, it was reported that Mr. Mask would dismiss 75% of employees as soon as he took office, and in fact a large number of employees suddenly quit the company. As a result, there is a shortage of personnel to maintain the platform.

In addition, it is said that instructions may suddenly fly from Mask CEO to employees. For example, CEO Musk instructed us to pause development of new features in order to maximize the stability and robustness of the system in preparation for the biggest American football event, the Super Bowl, in February 2023. has been reported.



Melissa Ingle, a former Twitter engineer who responded to an interview with Fast Company, said that Musk's freezing code every time Twitter's system crashed was postponed until the underlying problem was identified. I criticized him for just being there. Mr. Ingle points out that when he renewed the Twitter app after becoming CEO of Musk, he made many changes at once, so he could not identify the cause of the most recent failure, which resulted in further failures. .

'Many teams had their own know-how (whether they wanted it or not), but with the new code that was shipped, the teams were understaffed and had specialized know-how about the legacy Twitter system,' Ingle said. There is also a significant shortage of , which could lead to global system outages.'

Freezing the code that Mask CEO is doing is a measure devised as a safety measure to minimize the impact on the system. Code freezing is usually a way for engineers to have time to think about and fix what's going wrong with the platform, not just a way to postpone problems.

Mr. Ingle said, ``It seems that we are forced to struggle to create new features somehow in the lack of manpower, and my heart hurts,'' said Mask CEO, who reduced the number of staff and forced the rapid development of new features. Pointed out that multiple vulnerabilities have been created in the system called Twitter. 'What I and other engineers are saying out loud is that Twitter may be in a death spiral,' he said.



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