Musk Calls Twitter 'Brittle' After Second Outage

Musk Calls Twitter 'Brittle' After Second Outage

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The video discusses a Twitter outage, highlighted by a haiku, and explores the impact of significant staff cuts on the platform's reliability. It covers Elon Musk's response to the outage, attributing it to a small API change with large effects. The challenges of maintaining the platform with a reduced engineering team are also examined.

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What creative piece did the speaker write about Twitter outages?

A song

A haiku

A short story

A limerick

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What major change at Twitter is linked to the increase in outages?

Change in leadership

Reduction in workforce

Introduction of new features

Increase in user base

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who is mentioned as providing an explanation for the Twitter outage?

Elon Musk

Jack Dorsey

Sundar Pichai

Mark Zuckerberg

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is a consequence of having fewer engineers at Twitter?

More user engagement

Delayed bug detection and fixes

Increased platform reliability

Faster feature development

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the main reason for the technical challenges faced by Twitter?

Introduction of complex algorithms

Frequent API changes

Lack of sufficient engineering staff

High server costs