[Air-L] Twitter Revisited - Briefly

[Shulman, Stu]

I just got home from a canceled Twitter developers conference. I was given
some advice about where to get a beer near Twitter and here is a brief
report. The Beer Garden, 1 Polk St. SF, is a place you can go to get really
excellent beer and bump into some of the remaining Twitter personnel.
Yesterday, they were processing the whole 5 PM deadline to check the box
for yes on "extreme" working conditions. Conversations were animated at 6
PM. The streams of Tweets bidding farewell by Tweeps after six to ten years
of work were rebounding through phones and animated conversations. Now the
building is in another lockdown, critical infrastructure posts formerly
staffed by large teams have two, one, or zero engineers in place. Trust &
Safety and content moderation teams are crippled and probably beyond short
term repair. Despite all that, I was told that an academic got a quick turn
around an application for academic credentials, so I'm not sure what to
expect in the days ahead. Part of me wants and expects the bird to crash.
The other part loves Twitter.



-- 
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Founder and CEO, Texifter
Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*


-- 
Dr. Stuart W. Shulman
Founder and CEO, Texifter
Editor Emeritus, *Journal of Information Technology & Politics*