The rate of twitter feature rollout suggests that many near-completed staged dev features are being aggressively pushed to production. Not that Elon has suddenly inspired raw new dev. Gearshift to testing in production I guess?
what’s your read on what’s happening.
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All of this is work that long predated Musk, of course, because Twitter was rolling changes out slowly and methodically, and Musk dgaf. There was absolutely some kind of coordinated pressure or demand for everyone to trash the release process and push their work live.
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Which totally makes sense. Twitter is famously slow, plodding and risk averse when it comes to product change. Musk shows up and unlocks years worth of innovation within days! He makes Twitter productive with the magnetic force of his mere presence!
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I think “inspired” is the wrong word. It’s possible to do a lot of things fast if you don’t care about doing them well.
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For twitter, like facebook, you are the product, not the client. For years, in both platforms, user experience of the captive users was not improved. No edit in Twitter, no html in Facebook... Twitter seems to consider the users as clients now. However, the Musk problem is deeper
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