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I can’t believe it took them this long to figure out how to change their root domain; it’s been quite some time since their official name change.

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It is somewhat ironic that one bad decision (firing everyone) has delayed the impact of another bad decision (surely the worst rebrand since, at least, New Coke).

Probably says something about how things were done in Twitter v1

Does it? I’d say the more likely commentary is that if you fire all your engineers you lose all of the institutional knowledge.

They have been able to ship a lot more features than previously, with 20% of the staff.

Which features have they shipped since the layoffs?

From the top of my head: large-format posts, spaces, improvements in video hosting (can post multiple hours), community notes is now an integral part, premium accounts.

> large-format posts, spaces, improvements in video hosting (can post multiple hours), community notes is now an integral part, premium accounts.

All features that existed before the change in ownership. They had increases in length or branding changes but already had the core framework implemented.

... MuskTwitter being completely unable to do anything says stuff about _pre_-MuskTwitter? That's some impressive blame-shifting.

“Completely unable” is wrong since it actually happened.

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