The NYT has a very in-depth article up today which is basically a story of hubris and incompetence so pervasive that most fiction screenwriters would be embarrassed had they written it up as fiction: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/11/tech ... eover.html
That is just a small excerpt. The whole story goes on like that. And doesn't even get into the whole $8 blue check fiasco which has allowed an army of trolls to impersonate and embarrass all of Twitters corporate advertisers and prominent people. For example, I don't think Eli Lilly was amused by this:At Goldbird, Twitter’s revenue division, the company had to bring back those who ran key money-generating products that “no one else knows how to operate,” people with knowledge of the business said. One manager agreed to try rehiring some laid-off workers, but expressed concerns that they were “weak, lazy, unmotivated and they may even be against an Elon Twitter,” two people familiar with the matter said.
On Monday, some Twitter employees arrived at work to find that certain systems they had relied on no longer worked. In San Francisco, an engineer discovered that some contracts with vendors that provide software for managing user data had been put on hold or had expired, and that the managers and executives who could fix the problem had been laid off or resigned.
On Wednesday, workers in Twitter’s New York office were unable to use the Wi-Fi after a server room overheated and knocked it offline, two people said.
Mr. Musk plans to begin making employees pay for lunch — which had been free — at the company cafeteria, two people said.
nside Twitter, some employees have clashed with Mr. Musk’s advisers.
This week, security executives disagreed with Mr. Musk’s team over how Twitter should meet its obligations to the Federal Trade Commission. Twitter had agreed to a settlement with the F.T.C. in 2011 over privacy violations, which requires the company to submit regular reports about its privacy practices and open its doors to audits.
On Wednesday, a day before a deadline for Twitter to submit a report to the F.T.C., Twitter’s chief information security officer, Lea Kissner; chief privacy officer, Damien Kieran; and chief compliance officer, Marianne Fogarty, resigned.
In internal messages later that day, an employee wrote about the resignations and suggested that internal privacy reviews of Twitter’s products were not proceeding as they should under the F.T.C. settlement.
Some engineers could be required to “self-certify” that their projects complied with the settlement, rather than relying on reviews from lawyers and executives, a shift that could lead to “major incidents,” the employee wrote.
