Elon Musk tweet

Every mistake in code and operations is now deadly” a former engineer said last year. That dire prediction appears to be coming true.

[said](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/08/twitter-down-elon-musk/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22), could leave critical data unrecoverable — and cause Twitter to go down for months. But his tenure has also been marked by embarrassing mishaps, such as the botched rollout of the check mark feature, which resulted in a swarm of impersonators and prompted Twitter to temporarily pause the subscription service on multiple occasions. On a December Twitter Spaces, the site’s live audio feature, he said the company’s code base needed to be overhauled. Monday wasn’t the first time Musk suggested Twitter’s code needed to be entirely rewritten. Musk also pledged transparency on the old regime’s decisions — such as the effort to Each was said — by staffers current and former, or Musk himself — to come as the company made changes to its code. Since taking over Twitter, CEO Elon Musk has laid off more than two-thirds of the company’s staff, embarking on aggressive cost-cutting and shedding workers in part by compelling them to a commit to an “extremely hardcore” workplace or leave the company. Twitter whistleblower But the team was laid off after Musk’s takeover, The Washington Post Will ultimately need a complete rewrite.” “The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason. [wrote](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632810081497513993?s=20) in a tweet on Monday, referring to the tool used by third-party developers who run programs that draw on Twitter data and post to its site.

Social media site said issues — which also appeared to affect photos, videos, and login attempts — were "unintended consequences" of an "internal change".

An additional round of layoffs occurred last month, with at least 50 people losing jobs, according to [The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-lays-off-at-least-50-in-relentless-cost-cuts?utm_source=ti_app&irclickid=1pqRMSUO9xyNWYZy9Jyy1XsPUkAUcZWUtxSFWY0&irgwc=1&utm_source=affiliate&utm_medium=cpa&utm_campaign=27795-Sovrn+Commerce&utm_term=5310957) (some of those layoffs were [reportedly the result of Musk’s frustration](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-fires-twitter-engineer-1234676828/) about the weak performance of his tweet about the Super Bowl.) [responding to a days old Fox News story](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632788147573497856) about trans athletes and a [post about a Newsmax article](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632809364594606081) critical of Anthony Fauci — shared a few more details about the outage in a reply to Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreesen. The code stack is extremely brittle for no good reason,” [Musk said](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632810081497513993) in an apparent effort to deflect blame away from himself. We’re working on this now and will share an update when it’s fixed.” We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. [Elon Musk’s Twitter](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-twitter-sale-1342374/), the ability to share a simple link was completely upended thanks to an “internal change” with some “unintended consequences.”

Bim Ali was early in her first pregnancy when billionaire Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter, where she worked as a program manager on the Redbird core ...

[one month’s severance](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/tech/twitter-layoffs-severance-offers/index.html) following layoffs, beyond pay during the notice period that’s required by state and federal laws. “It would have been really good to have spent the time in the substantially better tech market while it still existed,” de Caires said. “I had lots of Twitter employees reaching out to me and saying they relied on” the company’s earlier severance promise, Liss-Riordan told CNN. we were part of a global movement to tell everyone what’s happening, how it’s affecting you locally, how it’s affecting you nationwide, how it’s affecting you globally. A week after his takeover, Musk laid off around half of Twitter’s staff by email, leaving employees without work — and at least some confused about whether they could seek out new jobs without risking their severance pay — just before the holidays. “We were on the Twitter-coaster, the Elon Musk chapter, for seven months,” Ali said. [agreed to buy Twitter](https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/tech/elon-musk-twitter-sale-agreement/index.html), where she worked as a program manager on the Redbird core technologies team. [generous severance packages](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/tech/twitter-layoffs-severance-offers/index.html) they claim they were promised but never materialized. “It was very welcoming,” Armstrong said of the company. Twitter now [reportedly](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/tech/twitter-layoffs/index.html) has fewer than 2,000 employees following more cuts late last month, down from around 7,500 before Musk took over. Some former workers have also alleged sex and disability discrimination and other issues, which the company has argued in court are without merit. “I wasn’t a software engineer or an executive,” said Michele Armstrong, a former senior audio video engineer, who was laid off seven months after joining the company.

Twitter users reported issues with logging in and getting some links, images and video files to load on Monday, with the company tying the issues to an ...

We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.” ET, Twitter said in an update that the platform “should be working as normal.” [calling the platform “brittle” in a tweet](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1632794008060567552?s=20) and saying the problems would be “fixed shortly.”

Twitter users worldwide are in an uproar after the social media site's API service breaks, leaving them unable to click outbound links - and forcing them to ...

This is the second time Twitter has experienced an outage in a week. One user, who is a computer science professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, believes the 'error' is because Twitter is charging itself for API access Issue reports began to appear on DownDectector, a website that monitors online outages, showing that the outage impacted the website and smartphone app.

Twitter services were hit by another technical snag on Monday as thousands of users reported facing difficulty in accessing links from the social media ...

In recent weeks, Twitter has been changing its API so as to generate more money, as per the reports. Twitter's specialised service for following tweets, Tweetdeck, also appeared to be broken because of the same technical snag. things are going great under Elon,” posted a user. “Twitter's own website is rejecting native API calls. Links also appeared as blank blocks of colour. Twitter services went down for less than an hour on Monday as users complained about broken links and shared memes mocking Elon Musk for the technical glitch