Twitter With No Engineers
If there are no engineers left does it mean Twitter is done?
After the acquisition of Twitter, the layoffs, policy change, and the wave of resignations… is there a Twitter anymore at this point? A digital product requires digital workers to maintain itself, clearly this seems have been forgotten. Twitter did have issues prior to the acquisition by Musk, and did needed some hard restructuring… however, the hard restructuring did not mean it had to shed all the people that built a working system.
I will admit that I never loved Twitter, it is a toxic, aggressive, and never ending. But Twitter did bring news fast, accessible from everywhere, and light weight (originally) so there is value in such platform. The idea of Twitter being a protocol, could make sense, but I had to break up the software I would make it as follows:
- For user management, I would use a crypto wallet (Algorand possibly? There has to be something better than anyone able to claim who they are or could be)
- Optimize for speed and keep it light weight (everyone needs access to it)
- Keep it private
- Encrypt endpoints, but allow the contents to be visible to everyone
- Enable it to be used from anything (your phone, desktop, web, smart fridge…)
These are jus thoughts on it, from an outside perspective on how quickly a tool seems to have been destroyed by a billionaire's policy and lack on internal knowledge on how something works.
