One might think that the headline is somewhat sensationalist, but we are not the ones who have invented the news. In the information published by the prestigious MIT Technology Review, it is ensured that the latest movements that have taken place in the blue bird’s social network could be the prelude to a descent into technological hell. Twitter continues to be a really popular social network, where tricks will allow you to get the most out of the app, but it can be in danger.
It all started with the famous retweets. At present, the process is carried out automatically, although this has not always been the case, given that when this functionality was implemented in 2009, a software feature allowed people to share content more organically. Some days ago, some users have experienced time travel when pressing the retweet buttonreturning to the manual version.
Could this be the end of Twitter if things don’t change?
Something that may not represent any kind of novelty or news for most of us, caught the attention of Ben Krueger. What looked like a test to return a missing function might actually be a crack in the system that supports Twitter and the beginning of the destabilization of the social network. ben affirmsin the media mentioned above, that:
Larger catastrophic failures are more egregious, but the bigger danger is that the little things start to degrade. These are very large and very complicated systems.
It is evident that the legion of laid-off workers has been one of Elon Musk’s most controversial measures, but few predicted that it could be the end of Twitter. Perhaps time will prove us wrong, but judging by the arguments of the company’s former engineer, it does not seem that the support of the system is valid with so many layoffs. Perhaps no one is noticing small bugsbut the reality is that they begin to be a sign of a deep problem: lack of staff to stabilize Twitter.
Ben understands that Twitter’s engineering staff will start to spend more time enabling new features devised by the South African genius, than spending time maintaining the code. When the social network experiences high activity scenariosif the maintenance is not correct, we may start to see falls system more often. The solution? The return of laid-off workers. On the contrary, Elon Musk may face the extinction of a social network that he has repudiated until he was forced to acquire it. Ironies of life.