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. Now, attention, Elon Musk fans, get your exclusive, Elon
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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 propaganda is wrong. Thank you for tuning in to the Elon Musk podcast brought to you by stage, zero Productions, and hosted by me will Walden. We hope you've enjoyed today's episode in gained some valuable insights.
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