Hi and welcome to the latest episode of the Elon Musk
podcast. Today, we're going to be
discussing a recent outage at Twitter that left employees
without accessed to one of their most important communication
tools slack. And what started as a routine
maintenance turned out to be a deliberate shut down leaving
engineer's with no way to chat and no way to ship their code.
Now resulting in most of them taking the day off and as will
explore in this episode Slack. Ike is not just a messaging app
but it's also a critical repository for important,
conversations, code, Snippets and other data for the employees
to complete their tasks. It's become so important to
daily work. That without it employees, May
struggle to find the information that they need leading to
potential delays and setbacks. Now join us as we delve into the
Twitter slack outage in the impact it had on the employees
and the importance. It's of a communication tools
like slack in the modern Workforce.
A Twitter, slack instance was down for routine maintenance on
Wednesday recruiting and Engineering teams took the day
off due to no way to chat or ship code.
Additionally jira a tool used by Twitter to track everything from
feature updates to Regulatory. Compliance.
Also stopped working jira. Access is been restored on
Thursday, but platformer confirms that slack.
Wasn't down for routine maintenance in a current Slack.
He said there is no sure thing as routine maintenance that's BS
and appears that Twitter hasn't paid, its lack Bill and that
someone at Twitter Mandalay shut off access, this move suggests
that musk may have turned against the communication app or
at least wants to see if Twitter can run without slack and the
expenses associated with it. Now on blind, the anonymous
workplace chat app, The Disappearance of critical tools
was met with a mixture of disbelief.
Frustration in Glee and for Twitter employees, slack, is
more than a way to message colleagues it's a store of
institutional memory preserved in documents.
The workers have had to rely on more and more.
Since must Purge. Thousands of employees since
taking over now, slack remain down at the company on Thursday.
And while some employees communicated over email, others
essentially took a second day off, there's never a good time
for a company to lose its primary communication
infrastructure, but the loss of Slack Ike is likely to be
particularly stressful for employees working on.
Musk's latest big idea. Open sourcing the algorithm that
ranks Tweets in the timeline in on Monday musk announced that
Twitter plans to open source as algorithm next week, but it
remains to be seen, how the loss of slack will affect this
project now is Twitter moves forward.
It will be interesting to see if the company decides to switch to
a different communication platform or if it will continue
to rely on slack, regardless of Out, come the recent outage
highlights, the importance of having a backup communication
plan in place, in case of emergencies and Twitter
employees were left without their primary communication
infrastructure on Wednesday when the slack went down for a
routine maintenance, of course. And there's no such thing
according to employees over at slack and people at Twitter, now
they may be kind of cost here. CEO may have been swapping out.
Tools from slack to another tool, used by Tesla Engineers.
It's called matter most. And they also use Microsoft
teams. Now, losing slack, all together
would be a significant blow to Twitter employees, because they
use this to gather data and code Snippets and other things in the
chance that they use with other workers.
Now, one of these workers said that slack was, where they found
their Solutions, 99% of the time, in the potential loss of
slack could also Mark, the end of an era where employee input
was highly valued at Twitter as employees, have reportedly felt
less comfortable, sharing insights, and opinions, under
Elon musk's leadership. And, while concerns have been
raised about the stability of Twitter.
Following recent outages, a rare endorsement of Twitter
stability, from Ad Agency. Wpp has some advertisers
reconsidering. The benefits of doing business
with the platform, wpp, CEO, Mark, Reed stated.
That Twitter seems to be a lot more stable.
The last few months that perhaps it was toward the end of last
year, which led clients to consider, how they can come back
to Twitter. This represents a significant
reversal for wpp, which urged advertisers to leave the
platform last November. Meanwhile, musk is testing other
internal All Communications tools.
While he works to support Twitter through Rapid updates to
support new features in its transition to making its
algorithm open source which is set to happen next week.
Now some employees have used email.
Some employees have just taken the time off but we're going to
see next week when the Implement these new communication tools if
they move the data from slack to these new communication tools or
into a repository. So the users Of the old slack
can get the data and the code in the conversations that they used
during their work days. Taking a quick break, so stay
tuned. And we'll be right back.
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Now, let's dive back into our discussion.
Now, in addition to shutting down, slack, Twitter has also,
recently announced a round of layoffs.
This left, some employees surprised and uncertain about
their future at the company. The social media giant has been
struggling with plummeting revenue and cost cutting
measures under the leadership of CEO.
Elon Musk leading to significant changes in its Workforce and
operations. Now, let's take a closer look at
what's been happening at Twitter.
Now, Twitter has conducted an unexpected round of layoffs.
Over the Can and it struggles with the plunging revenue and
aggressive, cost-cutting measures under Ilan.
And according to a report by the in formation, the company, let
go of at least 50 employees across various departments,
including engineer's, who help keep the social media Network
running. Now layoffs also included,
hardcore musk, loyalty has said Zoe Schiffer, a journalist who
covers the company closely for platformer.
She added that the layoffs included a ton of surprises.
For instance, she tweeted Mungo, Elaine off was Esther Crawford
chief executive of Twitter payments in early November.
Crawford tweeted when your team is pushing around the clock to
make deadlines. Sometimes you sleep, where you
work the news of this layoff, although unexpected is not
surprising. Giving musk's cost-cutting
measures since taking over the company in October last year.
And since then Twitter's headcount has fallen by over 70%
and his chief source of Revenue advertising has fallen
significantly. The Has seen some technical
glitches amid the turmoil. And I February 8 2010 users
across North America were unable to send messages with an error
message, saying they were over the daily limit.
For sending Tweets, Twitter may not be working as expected for
some of you sorry for the trouble.
We're aware and working to get this fixed, the company tweeted.
Now, musk attempted to generate Revenue in other ways, besides,
advertising. So far, those efforts have done
little to improve the company's Financial.
Position among those efforts have been Twitter blue, which is
a monthly subscription service, that includes a blue
verification, check mark. And that service got off to a
rocky. Start, when trolls used it to
impersonate Brands and celebrities, according to the
information by the middle of last month, only about 180,000
users had signed up for the service.
Many advertisers have been wary of where musk is self-described,
Free Speech absolutist would take the platform that didn't
stop. I'm waiting into various touchy
topics this weekend amid. These layoffs must came to the
defense of Scott Adams. The creator of the Dilbert,
after news newspapers across the country cancel the comic strip
for comments that called racist hateful.
And discriminatory now, Adam say, describe people who are
black as members of a hate group from which white people should
get away. Now musk tweeted for a very long
time. U.s. media was racist against
non-white. People now the racist against
whites and Asians. Same thing happened with Elite
colleges and high schools in America.
Maybe they can try not being racist.
Now, musk also this weekend, applauded a Saturday Night, Live
opening monologue by Woody Harrelson touching on covid,
vaccines. In the pandemic, the actor
talked about one of the craziest scripts, he's red He said so the
movie goes like this, the biggest drug cartels in the
world get together and buy up all the media and all the
politicians and force. All the people in the world to
stay locked in their homes and people can only come out.
If they take the cartels drugs and keep taking them over and
over, he said I threw that script away.
I mean who is going to believe that crazy idea being forced to
do drugs, I do them voluntarily all day and then musk tweeted.
So based Nice work. NBC SNL. and then one, Twitter
wrote, Go get ready for the meltdowns.
Maybe the media Outlets don't Rick denies that their
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