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Twitter limits the number of tweets users can read amid extended outage (techcrunch.com)

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[–] dreadedsemi 52 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I remember reading comments on how the site still fine after firing so many people. "What do they do".

[–] lp0101 54 points 1 year ago (7 children)

People fail to understand that large projects have inertia. He could have shuttered all twitter offices, fired all employees, and only paid the server bills, and the website would probably continue to function just fine for a few months.

But as a devops/SRE, this whole saga has been awesome to watch

[–] geekworking 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Weren't they not paying their AWS bills for a while?

[–] jyter 11 points 1 year ago

Back in March it was reported they weren’t paying their AWS bill. Two weeks ago it was reported they weren’t paying their GCP bill either.

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