Physically no. But spiritually it's completely dead.
It's how we feel it in our hearts.
Its a website. It never had a spirit.
But seriously, the only difference I see between now and a month ago is I get to see more sponsored tweets that I never saw before.
Your experience being okay doesn't mean everything is fine with the app
https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/twitter-is-breaking.html
As reports arrive hour after hour of mass resignations, office closures, emergency meetings, and general Muskian chaos, ex-Twitter employees are warning of impending problems, and users across the United States are preparing for the platform’s imminent death. Reasonable enough, considering the massive departures have really hit the teams in charge of traffic, content moderation, front- and back-end engineering, content moderation, 24/7 on-call technical assistance, community management, system libraries, story curation, trust and safety policy, and user information. The infrastructure has proved sturdy enough that the social network probably won’t fully collapse—at least, not just yet. What might happen instead, as some former tweeps and digital observers have opined, is that continual bugs and glitches will pile up without sufficient task forces on hand to fix them.
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Already, Twitter’s user bases outside the United States are facing these issues. “Twitter is very slow in India, Indonesia & many other countries,” Elon Musk tweeted Tuesday. “This is fact, not ‘claim’. 10 to 15 secs to refresh homeline tweets is common. Sometimes, it doesn’t work at all, especially on Android phones. Only question is how much delay is due to bandwidth/latency/app.” This isn’t a new problem: Indian desktop users reported ample service interruptions even earlier this month.
Musk may be acknowledging the concerns here, but he’s also rid his company of the people who actually know what to do about it. If you think the labor cuts and departures within the U.S. are bad—which they are—you should see how Musk has cleaned house in other nations. Twitter services for the entire continent of Africa were hollowed out just four days after its Ghana office opened. About 90 percent of Twitter staff in India, which comprises the website’s third-largest market, have also been left without jobs. According to Rest of World, “the company laid off practically all of its marketing and communication teams” throughout Southeast and East Asia, while sweeping layoffs also hit offices in Mexico and Brazil. These regions claim some of the largest numbers of Twitter’s users; these countries are where the app plays an outsize role in national discourse, activism, policy, and culture. Not coincidentally, they’re also the places where tweeters have reported slowdowns in overall UX, bugs while logging in to the service, and erroneously restricted accounts.
No two Twitter experiences (or feeds) are the same, and some user reports of website errors in various countries on Thursday night were self-admitted jokes. But as posters gathered to mourn what’s come of the platform—an occasion Musk celebrated as an “all-time high in Twitter usage lol”—there appeared to be a higher-than-usual number of network outages worldwide. Hundreds of such reports arrived that night alone from key countries like
https://freethoughtblogs.com/atrivialknot/2022/11/21/ten-things-on-twitter-that-are-already-breaking/1. Twitter’s copyright strike system fails
According to Forbes, Twitter has been particularly slow to take down copyright violations. Someone uploaded the entirety of The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift and it remained overnight. And maybe that particular example only got taken down because it went viral.
2. Twitter’s trending topics fill with nonsense
Apparently, Twitter had a team that manually curated trending topics, for example by manually inserting “Why is this trending?” notes under each topic. This team was presumably laid off, and it may not be a coincidence that Twitter’s trending topics look particularly garbage these days.
I took a look myself, and I saw dozens of topics that were just names of athletes or TV show characters, but I had to click to find out what they actually were. There were also several nonsense phrases, such as “HER HAIR”, and separately “THE HAIR”. Apparently people liked Taylor Swift’s hair, and combine that with normal tweets about hair and you have a trending topic.
3. Twitter data download fails
Suppose you want to delete your twitter, and save an archive of your data. Some people are reporting that they can’t download their data. Commenters say this is a violation of the EU’s GDPR law. I’ve also heard that it’s not totally broken, it’s just inordinately slow.
4. Twitter sending NSFW spam
One person reports that they’ve been getting e-mail notifications with tweets from accounts they don’t follow containing pornographic images. They adjusted their e-mail notification settings to only show tweets from users they follow, but this did not resolve the problem.
5. Reply counts don’t match replies
Each tweet has a number showing how many replies it got, but users are reporting that these numbers are incorrect. Either some replies are not being shown, or the count of replies is wrong.
6. Elon Musk dominates feeds
People are complaining that Elon Musk and other conservative trash started dominating their feeds. This points to multiple possible issues. It could be Twitter’s algorithm failing to make good recommendations. It could be compounded by a shift in Twitter’s user base, as ignorant conservatives seem to be the only ones optimistic about the platform right now. Some people are also reporting that Elon Musk still shows up even after blocking him, which is another kind of problem.
7. Twitter’s 2FA locks people out
2FA, or two-factor authentication, refers to the system that texts you a code to let you log in. Last week, there were stories about Twitter turning off 2FA service, which means some people couldn’t get text messages and were locked out of their accounts. On November 15, Twitter claimed that 2FA still works, and that was the last I heard about it. But on r/Twitter, people are still reporting difficulties as recently as November 17.
8. Trends for You forced on
One user reported that they turn off Trends for You on mobile app, allowing them to track trends in the US rather than from their home country. Suddenly these were turned back on, and could not be turned off.
9. Contact discoverability can’t be turned off
When people join Twitter, it gives you the option to lookup your e-mail and phone contacts to find friends to follow. One user had this turned off so that acquaintances would not be able to find their Twitter pseudonym. An acquaintance found them anyway, leading to speculation that the on/off switch for contact discoverability is broken now.
You know, I was concerned about data breaches at Twitter, but I had imagined some black hat stealing and selling databases–and presumably we would never hear about it because whoever’s monitoring for breaches got laid off. I hadn’t imagined this sort of invasion on such a personal level.
10. Even people paying Twitter money get bad service
This last item I didn’t hear from Reddit, but comes from an anonymous head of a marketing team. They say that 2FA and SSO (another authentication method) stopped working. Old advertisement campaigns suddenly got turned on again and can’t be turned off. Performance was way down. Campaign reporting is inconsistent between the API and UI. At this rate, Twitter will collapse financially if it doesn’t collapse some other way first.
And that’s just so far. What will happen in the coming weeks and months?
If I dont service my car, It'll be fine for a while. Then things start to deteriorate later on. Maybe I wont even notice the deterioration as it's slow and gradual - or I dont really use all the features of my car to notice failures myself. A mechanic could drive it and say 'the engine is knocking like crazy, your brake fluid is low, your springs and bushes are worn and your CV joints are fucked'. But hey the car still drives from A to B.
Elon fucked off most of the staff that could fix the niggling issues at a time Elon wants to add new features to the app to make it better. So how is the remaining staff, burnt out as fuck, supposed to maintain it as well as add new shit to it
Around 6000 tweets are made every second. It's not like a car you can leave in a garage and not have it wear out so fast. Also, when you have human keyboard warriors, trolls and hackers, you are going to need data engineers and moderators. Especially if ad companies you are beholden to to keep the site financially secure would feel uneasy about advertising or associating with what will eventually descend into the 'angry ranting' section of this forum lol
As someone who has a little experience in IT and data centres I can assure you that this kind of shit needs maintenance. Something Elon clearly doesn't appreciate. I'm sure the staff number was a little bloated - but he's clearly cut back too far (and then had mass resignations to deal with) and at a time he wants to
improve the Twitter experience with new features
Elons ego would probably rather have Twitter become a bottomless money pit than see it fail if he can help it. He'll probably bring down his other fortunes like Tesla and Space X down with it (or at least his personal stake in them). All for a shitty app that most people who have heard of it, dont give a fuck about it
He still has the issue that Twitter is losing fuck tons of money and that was before the advertiser exodus. Basically on that alone, Twitter is not sustainable. Even if there was no app or data fuck ups and user experience was great. At some point, the towel will have to be thrown. That's just the cut throat way business is done