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>>companies aren’t investing in junior developers

It was a case before AI as well.

Overall it reads the same as "Twitter will be destroyed by mass layoffs". But it is still online

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Twitter is essentially losing money even with a bare bones staff

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351317/elon-musk-x-twit...

It's being kept online because it's a good propaganda tool, not due to how it performs on the free market.

It's arguably depreciating in value faster than a new car. One of Elmo's worst judgement calls (and that's saying a lot). Altman jabbed at Elmo and offered 9billion for X, 1/4th the price Elmo paid.

It's kind of hilarious watching the piranhas go at each other:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-reportedly-offers-9...

It arguably got him to be effectively an unelected President (at least for now), the investment has largely paid off scarily.

For twitter as a business? Awful.

It's not related to engineering issues but rather the ideological shift and the fact that it became a blatant propaganda machine for its new overlord.

Ehh, as a propaganda tool it would be more useful to not have a hard login wall, which was allegedly implemented due to engineering challenges continuing to operate Twitter at its former scale. So the engineering issues are even limiting its new goals.

"Is a good propaganda tool" doesn't keep a website up, engineers do. It's losing money because a bunch of major advertisers pulled out, not because there's not enough engineers to keep it online.

I use it daily and can't remember the last outage.

"Destroyed" is not the same as "annihilated from exhistence". Twitter is a shell of its former self.

"it is still online" is pretty high bar. The systems is riddled with bugs that are not being addressed for months now and the amount of spam and bots is even larger than before.

Being privately owned by a man with near infinite resources means it can stay online however long its owner wants, whether it's successful or not.

and we also see with what consequences

Twitter is, in fact, not online. It redirects to something called X, which is not Twitter.

Yet there is this:

      <a href="https://twitter.com/tos">Terms of Service</a>
      <a href="https://twitter.com/privacy">Privacy Policy</a>
      <a href="https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514">Cookie Policy</a>
      <a href="https://legal.twitter.com/imprint.html">Imprint</a>

One would hope that hackers understand the distinction between name and referent.

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