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Maybe if he hadn't fired 85% of his employees, there might have been someone who checked alerting accountsand made sure no api limits applied, but nope. Dude fired so many people the simple, basic shit isn't getting done.
Nah, I don't think there's a sure fire way you could ensure that everyone that should get a free pass gets one. The effort they made to give free passes to government public safety bodies and the like was reasonable.
What isn't reasonable is having API charges to begin with. Musk didn't drop the ball here with Japan, he dropped it ages ago.
API charges are not flawed because they're inhibiting public safety channels, they're flawed because they inhibit regular people from making genuinely amazing positive contributions. That could be NERV, or it could be a lone reporter in a war zone, or just a person in their bedroom updating everyone on the crazy shit happening right outside. That narrative doesn't really garner as much sympathy, but it's far more honest.
Super frustrating to see a platform that was doing just fine (it wasstill Twitter, so I mean relatively) get flown directly into the ground so hard. Like, has he actually done anything whatsoever that has made it better? Twitter was technically profitable was was aiming to be actually profitable and now it's just a dumpster fire of money
Absolutely. But no, I don't think he's made it better in any way - and that wasn't the point. Ever since he was locked into the purchase the plan seems to have changed into running it into the ground.
There's no way they can maintain the $13bn debt he saddled it with, most of what he's been doing is something of a farce to cover up that as the reason for the business closing - eg "those advertisers leaving are going to kill the business!" That, and any of the dodgy shit they get away with (like API charges) becomes the norm for any future social media platforms.