There's a bunch of bugs. I got to reload more often than previously as tweets don't load. In the DMs view it tells me all my contacts joined Twitter in 1970. Bunch more of those small things. The core works, but there is a notable degration. I also assume that can be stabilized with acceptable (to Musk) effort and then it loves on, while they rebuild knowledge about old and work on something new (be it new features or a new replacement system)
There are discussions around a WeChat-like "everything app" I can speculate that one of the "success" paths is to have that "everything" is somewhat built around Tesla, which is quite a pivot, but hey, don't you need a Tesla Assistant communicating with your friends and providing your news during the commute and for paying for coffee while AutoPilot guides you thought the boring tunnel!? And then selling it to Tesla and thus offloading some of his debt to Tesla shareholders (see SolarWorld)
Sure, will take a bit, especially so that SEC and other Tesla shareholders won't go after him, but an independent IPO seems far off.
> Twitter nonsense has me using Twitter more than before. It’s like Cubhouse a year ago.
And it's mostly news about Twitter itself. It's hard to scroll without having people talk about Elon Musk. Had to unfollow him and still getting Elon related tweets, it's boring to say the least.
I believe this was the result of turning off the "get rid of all the microservices " directive Elon pushed. I don't think it was malicious; some badly name microservice that was probably in charge of sending text messages or generating session tokens was shut off and the dependency chain wasn't fully understood.
>AdsUI
Anyone spending enough money for Twitter to case likely has an account manager who does everything for them. Anything that isn't in the "happy path" of the AdsUI probably gets handled by some engineer making some API calls to a prod API because it's unique enough to not worry about putting AdsUI and urgent enough where someone had to take care of it now.
> Anything that isn't in the "happy path" of the AdsUI probably gets handled by some engineer making some API calls to a prod API
Prior to going private, Twitter would have had recurring Sarbanes-Oxley audits. Auditors understand the need for occasional emergency break-glass methods of making manual database queries or API calls, but they are less tolerant about that being a normal way of operating.
Plus, if you use emergency access often you'll eventually waste more time explaining each individual access to auditors at the end of the quarter than it would have taken to just implement a UI for the feature in a code-reviewed and audited internal admin console or user-facing UI.
> Anyone spending enough money for Twitter to case likely has an account manager who does everything for them.
Did you miss the part where they are cycling through AMs several times a week? ("We had multiple people (AE, AM, analyst, creative specialist) supporting our account and they all vanished without so much as an email. We finally got an email with a name for an AM last week but they quit and we don’t have a new one yet.")
> Anything that isn't in the "happy path" of the AdsUI probably gets handled by some engineer making some API calls to a prod API because it's unique enough to not worry about putting AdsUI and urgent enough where someone had to take care of it now.
LOL who? They can't even hold on to undifferentiated sales people for more than a week at a time.
Coke and Nike don't directly deal with twitter tho. Agencies deal with all the delivery of adverts to the different advertising platforms. The agencies use what ever is available. They would sit and make dozens of different sized video files to fit different adverters specifications to upload into Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc.
That's only when the budgets are small that they pawn off the execution to some operations intern. For large budgets you have every chef in the kitchen on calls with the Twitter's Ad Sales manager who in turn will make sure all the assets work in the system.
The rest of Twitter is pretty solid. Why this? This is the money maker. Is it because product wanted the human touch of sales instead of self-serve?