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What Twitter’s shutdown says about (over)zealous downsizing
Picture: Image Cells/Adobe Inventory The central characteristic of Twitter’s outage final Wednesday was a message to customers that you’ve got exceeded your each day Tweet restrict. A spokesman for community enterprise firm Ookla, which owns holiday-tracking web site Downdetector, mentioned that on February 8, from 10 a.m. UTC, about 50,000 Twitter customers reported entry issues. Whereas the Twitter outage affected comparatively few Twitter customers, it may carry a bigger message in regards to the dangers not solely to operations but in addition to safety for organizations contemplating main workforce cuts. With simply 1,300 energetic staff, Twitter now has 80% fewer staff than the roughly 8,000 the corporate had on its…