For me, I had already reduced my Twitter usage specifically because of the awful experience, but I'd still occasionally check up on a handful of software developers (notably the Asahi Linux team) on there.
I moved to Mastodon about a week ago mostly because the developers I was following did the same. No clue if everyone's leaving, I doubt it.
As for what's actually changed:
- Twitter Blue Verified was basically a satirists' wet dream and Musk wants to try it again
- A number of high profile Twitter CxOs jumped ship, including their information security officer
- Elon had every SWE in the company print out their code(?!) and physically deliver it to Musk, including an explanation of how much they wrote (presumably to try the old manager trick of rating projects on SLoC written)
- Elon publicly blasted his own developers on Twitter for the performance of the Android app. When the head developer replied and explained what was actually wrong and how to fix it, he was fired by tweet.
- Elon Musk issued a "Twitter 2.0" ultimatum to the remaining Twitter staff which were rejected by 75% of the company immediately resigning.
I can boil these down further into two reasons why any software should jump ship immediately:
1. Data security & stability. Twitter is basically running on autopilot now since a large amount of people left or were fired. Expect basically all of your data on Twitter to get breached.
2. Solidarity. The Twitter 2.0 ultimatum is basically a demand for constant crunch time. This is very harmful to both Twitter and it's employees. Even if you don't work at Twitter and don't give a shit about the word "solidarity", you should still make an example out of the company anyway purely so that other boneheaded PHBs don't try the same trick.
I moved to Mastodon about a week ago mostly because the developers I was following did the same. No clue if everyone's leaving, I doubt it.
As for what's actually changed:
- Twitter Blue Verified was basically a satirists' wet dream and Musk wants to try it again
- A number of high profile Twitter CxOs jumped ship, including their information security officer
- Elon had every SWE in the company print out their code(?!) and physically deliver it to Musk, including an explanation of how much they wrote (presumably to try the old manager trick of rating projects on SLoC written)
- Elon publicly blasted his own developers on Twitter for the performance of the Android app. When the head developer replied and explained what was actually wrong and how to fix it, he was fired by tweet.
- Elon Musk issued a "Twitter 2.0" ultimatum to the remaining Twitter staff which were rejected by 75% of the company immediately resigning.
I can boil these down further into two reasons why any software should jump ship immediately:
1. Data security & stability. Twitter is basically running on autopilot now since a large amount of people left or were fired. Expect basically all of your data on Twitter to get breached.
2. Solidarity. The Twitter 2.0 ultimatum is basically a demand for constant crunch time. This is very harmful to both Twitter and it's employees. Even if you don't work at Twitter and don't give a shit about the word "solidarity", you should still make an example out of the company anyway purely so that other boneheaded PHBs don't try the same trick.