The IT Nerd

Since Elon Musk took over, leaks about his various failures and challenges with Twitter have been appearing in the media. And today is no different. Hot on the heels of today’s Twitter outage comes a leaked email from Elon himself:

So this suggests a number of things to me:

• Twitter is generally unstable at the moment. Specifically when new features like expanded Tweet counts are launched. Which I am guessing is why he wants new feature development paused.
• Twitter’s sunsetting of some of their data centres is likely a factor in this instability. That is coming from the fact that he’s pausing Twitter’s transition away from the two data centres referenced in the Tweet.
• Elon knows that if Twitter is this unstable during the Super Bowl, his chances of getting advertisers back onto the platform and getting people to pay for Twitter Blue will be slim and none with slim packing their bags to leave town.

Bottom line: Twitter is in very deep trouble. And it’s starting to become clear that Elon can’t fix it. Which means we can expect to see more outages like this soon. And I would guess we won’t have to wait long to see those outages as Super Bowl Sunday may be the tipping point for Twitter.

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