As RIPTwitter Trends, Musk Boasts: ‘We Just Hit Another All-Time High in Twitter Usage lol’
indicated “all systems operational” and third-party uptime-monitoring service Downdetector showed a relatively minor number of error reports from users.
At least one Silicon Valley veteran believes the fears that Twitter will go belly-up over the major employee exodus are overblown. Bill Gurley, general partner at venture-capital firm Benchmark ,, “One of the reasons companies routinely do 3 layoffs instead of one is they are almost all afraid to ‘cut too much.’ They fear ‘hitting bone.’ But they VASTLY underestimate how resilient companies actually are. Companies endure.
Gurley continued, “This is also why everyone rooting for Twitter to ‘functionally fail’ are going to be disappointed. The company had 1,000 employees in 2012 and had 200 [million monthly active users]. And the systems are way better now. If they go back to that count they will survive. You are NOT seeing the ‘fail whale.’”
Musk replied to Gurley’s comments by writing, “Don’t wanna jinx it, but there’s a chance we can keep Twitter alive” — along with a meme from “Dumb and Dumber”:
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