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7 posts published by Dark Helmet, Mike Masnick, Tim Cushing, Gretchen Heckmann, and Karl Bode on March 2, 2023

Posts about outages written by Mike Masnick

On Wednesday there was yet another major global outage at Twitter, something that feels like it's becoming a recurring issue and bringing us back to the days when Twitter regularly crashed and had to put up a "Fail Whale" graphic. In response, Twitter spent a few years hiring some fantastic engineers and building up a…

Elon Musk’s repeated job cuts are stoking new fears that there aren’t enough people to triage Twitter’s problems.

Twitter Layoff Continues: If reports are to be believed, engineers who lost their job received an email stating that their role is no longer required in the company. However, the total number of employees laid off is yet to be ascertained. 

Twitter reportedly laid off more of its infrastructure team on Friday evening..

Twitter is reportedly taking drastic measures to cut costs..

Elon Musk recently dismissed Alex Spiro, one of his close personal allies as part of reshaping the legal team of the company.

Twitter has stopped paying rent on offices and is considering not paying severance packages to former employees, among other measures.