1 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,100 Hi and welcome to the latest episode of the Elon Musk 2 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:08,700 podcast. Today, we're going to be 3 00:00:08,700 --> 00:00:12,000 discussing a recent outage at Twitter that left employees 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:15,300 without accessed to one of their most important communication 5 00:00:15,300 --> 00:00:18,600 tools slack. And what started as a routine 6 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:21,800 maintenance turned out to be a deliberate shut down leaving 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:26,700 engineer's with no way to chat and no way to ship their code. 8 00:00:26,900 --> 00:00:32,400 Now resulting in most of them taking the day off and as will 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:37,100 explore in this episode Slack. Ike is not just a messaging app 10 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:40,700 but it's also a critical repository for important, 11 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:45,300 conversations, code, Snippets and other data for the employees 12 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:49,100 to complete their tasks. It's become so important to 13 00:00:49,100 --> 00:00:51,600 daily work. That without it employees, May 14 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:54,600 struggle to find the information that they need leading to 15 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:59,300 potential delays and setbacks. Now join us as we delve into the 16 00:00:59,300 --> 00:01:03,100 Twitter slack outage in the impact it had on the employees 17 00:01:03,300 --> 00:01:05,700 and the importance. It's of a communication tools 18 00:01:05,700 --> 00:01:08,400 like slack in the modern Workforce. 19 00:01:09,900 --> 00:01:13,100 A Twitter, slack instance was down for routine maintenance on 20 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:18,300 Wednesday recruiting and Engineering teams took the day 21 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:21,800 off due to no way to chat or ship code. 22 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:25,200 Additionally jira a tool used by Twitter to track everything from 23 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:27,600 feature updates to Regulatory. Compliance. 24 00:01:27,900 --> 00:01:32,300 Also stopped working jira. Access is been restored on 25 00:01:32,300 --> 00:01:35,300 Thursday, but platformer confirms that slack. 26 00:01:35,300 --> 00:01:38,300 Wasn't down for routine maintenance in a current Slack. 27 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:45,400 He said there is no sure thing as routine maintenance that's BS 28 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:48,800 and appears that Twitter hasn't paid, its lack Bill and that 29 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:53,000 someone at Twitter Mandalay shut off access, this move suggests 30 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,200 that musk may have turned against the communication app or 31 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:59,600 at least wants to see if Twitter can run without slack and the 32 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:03,300 expenses associated with it. Now on blind, the anonymous 33 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:06,400 workplace chat app, The Disappearance of critical tools 34 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,600 was met with a mixture of disbelief. 35 00:02:08,900 --> 00:02:12,800 Frustration in Glee and for Twitter employees, slack, is 36 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,800 more than a way to message colleagues it's a store of 37 00:02:15,900 --> 00:02:18,600 institutional memory preserved in documents. 38 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,000 The workers have had to rely on more and more. 39 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,900 Since must Purge. Thousands of employees since 40 00:02:23,900 --> 00:02:27,900 taking over now, slack remain down at the company on Thursday. 41 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:31,200 And while some employees communicated over email, others 42 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,500 essentially took a second day off, there's never a good time 43 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:36,600 for a company to lose its primary communication 44 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:39,600 infrastructure, but the loss of Slack Ike is likely to be 45 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,400 particularly stressful for employees working on. 46 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,500 Musk's latest big idea. Open sourcing the algorithm that 47 00:02:46,500 --> 00:02:50,100 ranks Tweets in the timeline in on Monday musk announced that 48 00:02:50,100 --> 00:02:54,000 Twitter plans to open source as algorithm next week, but it 49 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,200 remains to be seen, how the loss of slack will affect this 50 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,900 project now is Twitter moves forward. 51 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,300 It will be interesting to see if the company decides to switch to 52 00:03:03,300 --> 00:03:06,500 a different communication platform or if it will continue 53 00:03:06,500 --> 00:03:10,500 to rely on slack, regardless of Out, come the recent outage 54 00:03:10,500 --> 00:03:13,300 highlights, the importance of having a backup communication 55 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:17,200 plan in place, in case of emergencies and Twitter 56 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,800 employees were left without their primary communication 57 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,300 infrastructure on Wednesday when the slack went down for a 58 00:03:24,300 --> 00:03:27,500 routine maintenance, of course. And there's no such thing 59 00:03:27,700 --> 00:03:33,300 according to employees over at slack and people at Twitter, now 60 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:38,600 they may be kind of cost here. CEO may have been swapping out. 61 00:03:38,700 --> 00:03:43,200 Tools from slack to another tool, used by Tesla Engineers. 62 00:03:43,900 --> 00:03:47,200 It's called matter most. And they also use Microsoft 63 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,300 teams. Now, losing slack, all together 64 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:53,500 would be a significant blow to Twitter employees, because they 65 00:03:53,500 --> 00:03:59,100 use this to gather data and code Snippets and other things in the 66 00:03:59,100 --> 00:04:01,000 chance that they use with other workers. 67 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,900 Now, one of these workers said that slack was, where they found 68 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:10,600 their Solutions, 99% of the time, in the potential loss of 69 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,300 slack could also Mark, the end of an era where employee input 70 00:04:14,300 --> 00:04:18,100 was highly valued at Twitter as employees, have reportedly felt 71 00:04:18,100 --> 00:04:21,000 less comfortable, sharing insights, and opinions, under 72 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:24,900 Elon musk's leadership. And, while concerns have been 73 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:26,500 raised about the stability of Twitter. 74 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,600 Following recent outages, a rare endorsement of Twitter 75 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:35,300 stability, from Ad Agency. Wpp has some advertisers 76 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:38,000 reconsidering. The benefits of doing business 77 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,200 with the platform, wpp, CEO, Mark, Reed stated. 78 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,000 That Twitter seems to be a lot more stable. 79 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,700 The last few months that perhaps it was toward the end of last 80 00:04:47,700 --> 00:04:51,500 year, which led clients to consider, how they can come back 81 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:53,800 to Twitter. This represents a significant 82 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,100 reversal for wpp, which urged advertisers to leave the 83 00:04:57,100 --> 00:05:01,200 platform last November. Meanwhile, musk is testing other 84 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,100 internal All Communications tools. 85 00:05:03,100 --> 00:05:06,500 While he works to support Twitter through Rapid updates to 86 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:09,800 support new features in its transition to making its 87 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,200 algorithm open source which is set to happen next week. 88 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:16,900 Now some employees have used email. 89 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:21,000 Some employees have just taken the time off but we're going to 90 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,600 see next week when the Implement these new communication tools if 91 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,400 they move the data from slack to these new communication tools or 92 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:33,000 into a repository. So the users Of the old slack 93 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:37,600 can get the data and the code in the conversations that they used 94 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:46,800 during their work days. Taking a quick break, so stay 95 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,800 tuned. And we'll be right back. 96 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,500 Now, attention, Elon Musk fans, get your exclusive, Elon 97 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:55,800 merchandise. Now at Starship shirts.com, 98 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,400 they've got everything from Tesla to SpaceX and even 99 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:01,400 Twitter. And for our listeners, 100 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:05,000 everything is currently only $16.99. 101 00:06:05,100 --> 00:06:07,600 That's right. Exclusive designs at unbeatable 102 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,600 prices. Don't miss out on this 103 00:06:09,600 --> 00:06:13,000 opportunity to show off your love for all things, Elon. 104 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:18,100 Musk head over to Starship shirts.com and grab your gear 105 00:06:18,100 --> 00:06:20,200 today. Now, we're back. 106 00:06:20,500 --> 00:06:22,500 Thanks for sticking with us during a break. 107 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:25,400 Now, let's dive back into our discussion. 108 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,900 Now, in addition to shutting down, slack, Twitter has also, 109 00:06:30,900 --> 00:06:32,900 recently announced a round of layoffs. 110 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:35,700 This left, some employees surprised and uncertain about 111 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:38,300 their future at the company. The social media giant has been 112 00:06:38,300 --> 00:06:40,800 struggling with plummeting revenue and cost cutting 113 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,000 measures under the leadership of CEO. 114 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,100 Elon Musk leading to significant changes in its Workforce and 115 00:06:47,100 --> 00:06:49,700 operations. Now, let's take a closer look at 116 00:06:49,700 --> 00:06:51,700 what's been happening at Twitter. 117 00:06:52,300 --> 00:06:56,400 Now, Twitter has conducted an unexpected round of layoffs. 118 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,000 Over the Can and it struggles with the plunging revenue and 119 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,500 aggressive, cost-cutting measures under Ilan. 120 00:07:02,500 --> 00:07:06,200 And according to a report by the in formation, the company, let 121 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,100 go of at least 50 employees across various departments, 122 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,900 including engineer's, who help keep the social media Network 123 00:07:12,900 --> 00:07:15,700 running. Now layoffs also included, 124 00:07:15,700 --> 00:07:19,500 hardcore musk, loyalty has said Zoe Schiffer, a journalist who 125 00:07:19,500 --> 00:07:21,800 covers the company closely for platformer. 126 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,200 She added that the layoffs included a ton of surprises. 127 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,600 For instance, she tweeted Mungo, Elaine off was Esther Crawford 128 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,900 chief executive of Twitter payments in early November. 129 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:35,000 Crawford tweeted when your team is pushing around the clock to 130 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,800 make deadlines. Sometimes you sleep, where you 131 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:42,100 work the news of this layoff, although unexpected is not 132 00:07:42,100 --> 00:07:44,100 surprising. Giving musk's cost-cutting 133 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:47,100 measures since taking over the company in October last year. 134 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:51,500 And since then Twitter's headcount has fallen by over 70% 135 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,000 and his chief source of Revenue advertising has fallen 136 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,600 significantly. The Has seen some technical 137 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,200 glitches amid the turmoil. And I February 8 2010 users 138 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:05,700 across North America were unable to send messages with an error 139 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:08,100 message, saying they were over the daily limit. 140 00:08:08,100 --> 00:08:11,900 For sending Tweets, Twitter may not be working as expected for 141 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:13,700 some of you sorry for the trouble. 142 00:08:13,900 --> 00:08:17,100 We're aware and working to get this fixed, the company tweeted. 143 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:22,100 Now, musk attempted to generate Revenue in other ways, besides, 144 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:25,000 advertising. So far, those efforts have done 145 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:26,700 little to improve the company's Financial. 146 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:31,100 Position among those efforts have been Twitter blue, which is 147 00:08:31,100 --> 00:08:33,500 a monthly subscription service, that includes a blue 148 00:08:33,500 --> 00:08:36,200 verification, check mark. And that service got off to a 149 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,299 rocky. Start, when trolls used it to 150 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:41,600 impersonate Brands and celebrities, according to the 151 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,700 information by the middle of last month, only about 180,000 152 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:48,400 users had signed up for the service. 153 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,400 Many advertisers have been wary of where musk is self-described, 154 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:56,100 Free Speech absolutist would take the platform that didn't 155 00:08:56,100 --> 00:08:58,800 stop. I'm waiting into various touchy 156 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:03,200 topics this weekend amid. These layoffs must came to the 157 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,300 defense of Scott Adams. The creator of the Dilbert, 158 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:12,000 after news newspapers across the country cancel the comic strip 159 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,700 for comments that called racist hateful. 160 00:09:14,900 --> 00:09:18,000 And discriminatory now, Adam say, describe people who are 161 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,000 black as members of a hate group from which white people should 162 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,500 get away. Now musk tweeted for a very long 163 00:09:25,500 --> 00:09:28,000 time. U.s. media was racist against 164 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,500 non-white. People now the racist against 165 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:33,200 whites and Asians. Same thing happened with Elite 166 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,500 colleges and high schools in America. 167 00:09:35,900 --> 00:09:38,400 Maybe they can try not being racist. 168 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:42,300 Now, musk also this weekend, applauded a Saturday Night, Live 169 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:45,300 opening monologue by Woody Harrelson touching on covid, 170 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:47,600 vaccines. In the pandemic, the actor 171 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:53,100 talked about one of the craziest scripts, he's red He said so the 172 00:09:53,100 --> 00:09:55,800 movie goes like this, the biggest drug cartels in the 173 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,800 world get together and buy up all the media and all the 174 00:09:58,808 --> 00:10:01,600 politicians and force. All the people in the world to 175 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:04,500 stay locked in their homes and people can only come out. 176 00:10:04,500 --> 00:10:08,400 If they take the cartels drugs and keep taking them over and 177 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,500 over, he said I threw that script away. 178 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:15,300 I mean who is going to believe that crazy idea being forced to 179 00:10:15,308 --> 00:10:20,300 do drugs, I do them voluntarily all day and then musk tweeted. 180 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:27,100 So based Nice work. NBC SNL. and then one, Twitter 181 00:10:27,100 --> 00:10:31,100 wrote, Go get ready for the meltdowns. 182 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,700 Maybe the media Outlets don't Rick denies that their 183 00:10:34,700 --> 00:10:40,500 propaganda is wrong. Thank you for tuning in to the 184 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:44,500 Elon Musk podcast brought to you by stage, zero Productions, and 185 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:47,600 hosted by me will Walden. 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