Proper now, Twitter is working with 36% of the workers it had been earlier than Elon Musk took over on the app – possibly even much less given Musk’s newest firings in its gross sales division. Twitter has reportedly gone from 7,500 workers in September to round 2,700 now, and plenty of former staffers have warned that the app might crash, probably perpetually, because of elevated pressure.

However it hasn’t, as Musk continues to tout ‘file excessive’ utilization charges.

So will it really go down, and what’s the impression that customers are seeing to this point because of that discount in headcount?

Listed here are a number of the issues that customers are reporting on the app:

Copyright system broke

In keeping with varied studies, Twitter’s copy strike system is damaged, which has enabled customers to add full-length motion pictures into tweet threads, and have them stay up, with out being detected or eliminated.

As per Mashable:

“One Twitter person went viral this weekend after posting everything of The Quick and the Livid: Tokyo Drift in 2-min lengthy chunks, totaling over 50 tweets. The account has since been suspended, nonetheless, the media itself didn’t go down with it for fairly a while. Different customers posted the 1995 movie Hackers and the 2009 movie Avatar, each of which have additionally been taken down.”

It’s the primary main instance of a major flaw in Twitter’s oversight techniques, which comes because of some elements on the app not being monitored as carefully as they need to be.

That would result in a lot larger issues – particularly if you additionally take into account that Twitter was already unable to detect and take away little one sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale at its earlier staffing ranges.

Associated to this, Musk has stated that addressing little one sexual exploitation content material within the app is his prime precedence. So it does appear to be Twitter can be shifting to handle this earlier than it turns into extra vital.

Advertiser points

Twitter advertisers, in the meantime, are reporting issues with the whole lot from logging into Advertisements supervisor, to modifying campaigns, to advert placement and efficiency.

Some have reported that their advertisements are being displayed alongside ‘hardcore antisemitism and grownup spam’, and have remained up even after being reported to Twitter, whereas others have stated that paused campaigns have been reactivated with out discover.

The problems, once more, are doubtless associated to lowered oversight at Twitter HQ, and have prompted many to pause their Twitter advert spend totally until they are often mounted.

Some advertisers have additionally reported a major drop in advert efficiency, probably as a result of advert serving points.

Exposing non-public tweets

There have additionally been some studies of tweets from non-public accounts being made viewable to non-followers within the app.

That may very well be a major downside, however as varied customers have famous, it is a technical glitch that’s existed on Twitter for a while. It might be getting worse and extra prevalent, but it surely’s not a brand new difficulty, as such.

Smaller stumbles

However possibly the important thing indicator that issues will not be all good on the app have been the smaller glitches and points that customers at the moment are seeing.

Former Twitter workers have stated that that is doubtless how issues will go on the app – there gained’t essentially be an enormous occasion, however smaller issues will glitch and crash over time, which is able to ultimately result in a cascading impact of outages that may trigger a much bigger breakdown of the service.

Over the previous few weeks, customers have reported:

• Being unable to view replies
• Repeatedly seeing sure tweets on the prime of the feed
• Longer load instances
• Time-scrambled DMs
• Replies displaying above the principle put up
• Video loading points

A few of these, after all, have been constant points for some Twitter customers over time, however there undoubtedly have additionally been extra studies of issues of late.

We don’t know for certain which of those could also be associated to Musk’s staffing revamp, and that are fixable within the short-term. However for what it’s value, Musk himself appears assured that the app is heading in the right direction.

Musk says that his reorganization of the corporate is virtually full, which is able to see him spending much less time engaged on Twitter, doubtless from subsequent week. 

It does nonetheless appear to be there are lots to handle, however possibly, that is all a part of the grand Musk plan on the app.