Casey Newton
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Obviously there's no place like Twitter but I do have a couple lifeboats under construction!
Mastodon:
Instagram:
And of course
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Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴
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NEW: Employees who have criticized Elon Musk in Twitter’s Slack channels were fired overnight over email.
“We regret to inform you that your employment is terminated immediately,” they’re being told over email. “Your recent behavior has violated company policy.”
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According to messages shared in Twitter Slack, Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned last night.
An employee says it will be up to engineers to “self-certify compliance with FTC requirements and other laws.”
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Multiple ex-Twitter sources telling me that Robin Wheeler, the sales leader who Musk begged to stay at the company days ago when she tried to resign, has now been fired
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At a Twitter all-hands right now, execs told employees that they are not open to renegotiating the purchase price with Elon Musk.
I’m told that champagne was popped in the New York office.
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Tweeps are just hanging out in Slack saying nice things to each other until their access is cut off. I’ve never seen anything like it.
Some really incredible people leaving Twitter tonight. We are all worse off without them there
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I'm told Twitter employees were just walked out of its Singapore office — its Asia-Pacific headquarters — over nonpayment of rent. Landlords walked employees out of the building
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It’s important to note that Twitter has long cultivated a culture of internal dissent: “Communicate fearlessly to build trust.”
No internal codes of conduct have changed since Elon took over. So this is all out of the blue.
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Getting word that a large number of number of Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear to include content moderation, real estate, and marketing, among others
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Here’s one of the affected employees, who had pushed back on Musk’s tweets blaming performance issues on Twitter’s architecture.
“One of the absolute best engineers we had,” one employee tells me. "A legend in her area of expertise.”
After 12 amazing years and 3 weeks of chaos, I’m officially fired by Twitter.
Never expected I would have stayed this long, and never expected I would be this relieved to be gone.
I have a lot of stories to tell. But to my fellow (ex-)tweeps-
#LoveWhereYouWorked
🫡
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“All of this is extremely dangerous for our users,” the message says. “Given that the FTC can (and will!) fine Twitter BILLIONS of dollars pursuant to the FTC Consent Order, extremely detrimental to Twitter’s longevity as a platform. Our users deserve so much better than this.”
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Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running.
People inside are stunned.
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One of the people fired Musk’s latest purge was Ikuhiro Ihara, a highly respected senior software engineer who helped lead the push to expand tweets to 280 characters.
と思ってたら急に解雇通知が！
最近のコードレビューの結果お前は無能と分かった、とか書いてるけどコードレビューて一回もなかったんですが？w
来週から日本帰って日本から仕事しようとしてたんだけど完全な冬休みと化した。タイミングすぎるのでは。
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I’m reading this email and the part where he goes, “please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code” … like WHAT
NEW: Email from Elon to the engineering team: "Anyone who can actually write software, please report to the 10th floor at 2pm today. Before doing so, please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past 6 months" 1/
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Wait until Google finds out what’s on YouTube
New: Google has suspended Parler from the Play Store until it better polices its app.
Earlier today, Apple gave Parler an ultimatum to improve its moderation in 24 hours or face removal from App Store.
(Corrects earlier tweet.)
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Here it is: Twitter engineers were told today to *print out* their last 30 to 60 days of code, so they could show it to Elon Musk himself.
Then they were told wait, no, actually, please shred all that code you just printed out.
Subscribe to read ➡️
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Employees say it appears that around 20 people have been fired so far for their Slack posts.
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An ongoing shame in American newsrooms is that so much great journalism is buried in absolutely sadistic web design.
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In the same message, the employee said Twitter’s current head of Legal, Alex Spiro, said “Elon is willing to take on a huge amount of risk in relation to his company and its users, because ‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.’”
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Meanwhile in Slack, one employee changed their screen name to “The Algorithm” and is encouraging everyone to drink whenever an executive says “fiduciary”
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One manager just posted in Slack:"one of my contractors just got deactivated without notice in the middle of making critical changes to our child safety workflows"
Working to learn more, email me for my Signal.
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It’s not clear how many people were affected; seems like it’s more than 10 people but I’m working to learn more.
More in
@plaformer
today; email me if you know something.
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About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today after a contentious all-hands meeting. I’m told more are coming.
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If you refuse to get the vaccine but installed the iOS 15 developer beta, I want to hear from you
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Elon Musk ordered major changes to Twitter this weekend after ... President Biden's tweet about the Eagles got higher engagement than his did.
Inside the secret system that's showing you all his tweets first, from
@zoeschiffer
and me.
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The message ends with a link to
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India is threatening put Twitter employees in jail for *seven years* just for letting journalists tweet about protests. It’s a worrisome omen for our splinternet battles yet to come.
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I’ll never forget where I was the moment that Elon Musk bought Twitter (I was on Twitter)
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If you’re wondering what a “salient line of code is” so is everyone who just got this email
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A common mistake I see people making on Twitter is trying to have a conversation about anything
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Contractors aren’t being notified at all, they’re just losing access to Slack and email. Managers figured it out when their workers just disappeared from the system.
They heard nothing from their leaders
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The fact that the new verified badge looks exactly the same as the old one, and verifies exactly nothing about an account, is really just one of the all-time avoidable design mistakes
Can't imagine why all the advertisers are pulling out of Twitter lmao
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NEW: On Nov. 1, Twitter’s trust and safety team prepared a 7-page document warning Musk and his team about exactly how the rollout of the new “verified” badge would go wrong.
They were ignored.
And then their fears came true
With
@ZoeSchiffer
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Twitter employees get endless shit, but the ones I knew — they worked hard, their work mattered, and they never stopped trying. Not until the moment their screens went blank
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Some real “my passion is graphic design” vibes for this checkmark rollout
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More news from Twitter today: Elon Musk and David Sacks have both discussed putting all of Twitter behind a paywall eventually,
@platformer
has learned
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I don’t want to make too much of a literal shitpost but what the hell is going on with this cursed acquisition
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Why would Elon Musk destroy billions in brand value just to rename Twitter to X?
Because the whole point, from the very beginning, has been to erase the old Twitter and everything it stood for.
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I have come into possession of Twitter information so silly that I have no choice but to write a bonus Friday newsletter
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The threat of an antitrust lawsuit is truly the most powerful and benevolent product manager in all of tech
iOS 14.5 lets you set Spotify and others as Siri’s default music service
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My favorite silly story of the day: David Sacks’ Twitter calendar is currently not set to private, and employees are analyzing his meeting schedule in an effort to determine what’s going to happen next
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For more than 10 years, some Basecamp employees maintained an open list of customer names that sounded “funny” to them.
Last year, amid a broader reckoning over diversity and inclusion, that list didn’t seem quite so funny any more. And employees wanted to talk about it.
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“We really would not have launched 280 when we did without Iku, running around with his charts telling everyone that it would be better,” a person familiar tells me.
Fired after 10 years and one late-night “code review”
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From
@ZoeSchiffer
and I, an account of one of the most chaotic days in Twitter’s history. We’re making it free for everyone to read because we think the whole story needs to be told.
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NEW: Twitter has a plan to force you to opt in to personalized ads to continue using this app.
@ZoeSchiffer
and me in
@platformer
:
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So far my favorite thing about the Biden Administration is the sense that it’s not trying to kill me and everyone I love
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More layoffs hit Twitter’s sales team this morning, per someone affected. Account managers and client partners started to be informed last night.
Comes a day after Musk held a short-notice Sunday evening all-hands meeting with the sales team where layoffs were not discussed.
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This weekend's events at Twitter made it clearer than ever: Elon Musk has no idea what he is doing
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You know, in the ‘70s when this sort of thing happened we got Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” out of the deal
tens of billions of dollars wiped out by a single polycule
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It’s June 1, which means all your Google Photos upload now count against your storage limit! Thanks to all the paid services that died along the way to create this market opportunity for Google
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NEW: Elon Musk fired a top engineer over his declining view counts.
Plus the reason the site went down yesterday, fears about an upcoming FTC audit, and more.
From
@ZoeSchiffer
and me in
@platformer
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Trump’s near-instant abandonment of blogging illustrates that the real power of platforms isn’t “free speech” — it’s free reach.
It’s never been clearer what stunts like the Florida deplatforming law are really about.
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Original sources just walked this back to me, saying champagne *was not* popped. So sorry about that. 😞 But they report that morale is higher than it has been at any point since deal was announced.
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During Friday’s all-hands meeting, Basecamp’s head of strategy denied that white supremacy existed at the company.
30 minutes later, he had been suspended. This weekend, he resigned — leaving along with at least 20 others.
Here’s how Basecamp blew up:
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From Twitter Slack: “sorry to @- everybody on the weekend but I wanted to pass along that we have the opportunity to ask folks that were left off if they will come back. I need to put together names and rationales by 4PM PST Sunday.
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Parents — the holidays are almost upon us, and kids will soon have more free time on their hands than usual. Here’s how to prevent them from interviewing Sam Bankman-Fried
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NEW: Twitter went down today because its migration to a paid API has a single site reliability engineer attached to it. Here’s
@ZoeSchiffer
and me on the high price of cutting costs:
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I’m trying to think of a more obvious lie in the history of American business
Musk says his Twitter deal is temporarily on hold "pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users" (
@niveditabalu
/ Reuters)
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Twitter engineer Eric Frohnhoefer was fired for correcting Elon Musk.
I talked to him about Twitter’s culture, Musk’s paranoia, and whether the service will crash and burn.
Subscribe to read ➡️
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More news: Twitter Blue only had around 100K active subscribers, and if the company goes forward with its plan to reduce ads by half the new Blue could actually LOSE Twitter money, at least in the US
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Katie Marcotte, a 10-year Twitter employee and the company's acting head of human resources, just announced that she is leaving the company in a tweet on her private account.
"Rooting for all my people still left," she wrote. "Tonight, the good wine. 🍷💙"
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The CDC announced that fully vaccinated Americans no longer need to add "socially distanced, of course!!" to every social media post
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BeReal is the first social network where every single post is bad. Every day, the same haggard faces in the same three rooms of their houses. Anti-aspiration for people trying to remember what Instagram felt like in 2010
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I imagine that Google will begrudgingly, belatedly catch up to the sort of stuff that you can do today with ChatGPT, but it’s amazing how stagnant and prehistoric Google now looks for a lot of things
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Straight people: are your men also putting vaccine brands in their Tinder profiles or is this unique to my community
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Magazine feature I would LOVE to read: a look at the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen diaspora 18 months after they left and tried to make it on their own using YouTube and Patreon. Feels like an amazing tech + business + culture story
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I want to formally apologize to Netflix for failing to return the Jack Reacher DVD I borrowed in 2012
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Choosing to remain on Twitter for one simple reason: I am not hot enough for Instagram
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This victory belongs to all of us — families who bought iCloud because the entry-level phone only came with 64GB of storage, developers paying 30 percent of their revenue in perpetuity, people who forget to cancel AppleTV+ in between seasons of Ted Lasso …
Apple becomes the first US company to reach a $3T market cap, tripling its valuation in under four years (
@kifleswing
/ CNBC)
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@burr86
if you can connect a laptop to a printer you can be the damn CTO of any company I run
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Ihara fought relentlessly for 280 in the face of strong skepticism from top executives, I’m told.
He co-authored the blog post explaining the value of 280 characters when it launched:
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Some news: Instagram is temporarily walking back some its changes amid mounting criticism. The full-screen feed beta is going away, and the number of recommendations is going down —>
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Hearing that the New York Times just dropped the hammer on any new newsletters from staff, paid *or* free, unless they get prior approval from a committee.
Paid I get; free I don’t. Every reporter ought to have an email distribution list they can take wherever they want.
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Something wild is going on with Twitter recommendations right now. One of my alt accounts is now like 30 percent ‘shirts that go hard,’ 20 percent ‘no context brits,’ and then some of these.
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Just learned that today my initial story on Basecamp won one of journalism’s highest honors — being denounced as a cowardly “hit piece” by an unsigned editorial in the Wall Street Journal
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“I will see you in the Delaware Court of Chancery!!” — my new comeback for every situation
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Some news from inside Elon’s war room: Twitter is strongly considering making verified users pay $4.99 a month to keep their badges.
Many questions remain. Subscribe to read ➡️
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Google is gradually moving from introducing new communication apps every four months to simply renaming existing ones twice a year. But the overall goal remains: to ensure that under no circumstances do you ever know which Google product you are using
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This ad is all over SF and I can’t decide what I dislike more: the wild overpromising or the total lack of information about what it does
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In STILL OTHER news,
@Discord
says it has banned server The Donald, which was connected to TheDonald dot Win and the Donald subreddit.
Made decision "due to its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection,” spox says.
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Today Peloton introduced the concept of Schrödinger’s Big, a character who may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead as a result of his fate being linked to opposing corporate interests
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This sucks. I met my wife on LinkedIn Stories
LinkedIn is abandoning its Stories format at the end of September and has told advertisers to adjust their ad campaigns accordingly (
@garettsloane
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Yesterday I:
- tried to make a simple transaction using Ethereum;
- had to buy Ethereum to make the transaction;
- waited ~20 hours for the transaction to complete
- the transaction failed
- now I need to try again
- but I don’t have enough Ethereum 😤
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Welcome to Taking Credit for Coinbase Day on Twitter. What did you do to help Coinbase get to this point? Please leave an absolute lie in the replies. Let’s complicate the narrative
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Devin Nunes, who sued Twitter because someone pretending to be his cow made fun of him there, will now be running some sort of Trump social platform. Excited to read the community guidelines
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Wishing a Happy New thanksgiving to everyone working on the iOS predictive text keyboard
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The constant forced reversion to the home timeline is Twitter’s worst product decision in ages. I’m here for the latest tweets, not the greatest tweets!
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None of this would be happening if you all simply did as I do, and pay Twitter $3 a month for no reason
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Apple and Amazon using their unlimited cash flow to subsidize ‘free’ lossless audio to music customers has big ‘Google offering free photo storage just long enough to starve its independent competitors to death before starting to charge’ energy
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