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Great time for iOS to remind me of an autogenerated album of all my trips to San Francisco to visit Twitter HQ...
Andrew Sorensen retweeted
Texts from an unknown sender, from discovery in the Elon Musk/Twitter suit.
Someone should take the code from BotMaker into Space Karen's office. He'll probably want that shut down when he misunderstands what it does 🤣
For those not aware, BotMaker is one of Twitter's most effective solutions for spam fighting: blog.twitter.com/engineering…
maybe it would help if there were still an adequate number of people at the company who knew how critical services operated?
Andrew Sorensen retweeted
Important note on downloading your Twitter data: All the images are still hosted on Twitter, and everything's in messy JSON. I used this Twitter Archive Parser to convert everything to Markdown and downloads full size images, in case Twitter goes down:
github.com/timhutton/twitter…
Andrew Sorensen retweeted
If you’re wondering why Twitter is still up & running with the majority of hardcore engineers gone, it’s because many exceptional engineers over the years gave it all they had to ensure the platform scaled under any conditions.
Twitter was resilient 💙
Reminder that even if Twitter goes offline from an external/user perspective, the data warehouses will likely remain intact for much longer. Someone will still need to be responsible as a custodian for that data and the decommissioning process.
It's not unheard of for companies that downsize or go out of business to auction off equipment, which may include assets that have stored non-public data.
Example: zdnet.com/article/canadian-r…
Andrew Sorensen retweeted
I've spent more than 5 yrs documenting US politics on here. My archives contain video clips/threads of just about every big political event that's happened since the early days of the Trump WH. It didn't occur to me until very recently that all that could just be lost. So it goes
Andrew Sorensen retweeted
Elon: Listen, you need to know this will be a terrible, hostile place to work. And I need you all to affirmatively consent to this abusive sprint to make the company profitable for me. And at the end, I’ll still probably fire you. Cool?
Twitter engineers: No.
Elon: Wait, what?
