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Elon Musk moving servers himself shows his ‘maniacal sense of urgency’ at X, formerly Twitter

Added on September 13th, 2023 by | Report Post

Elon Musk’s most valuable lieutenants at Tesla and SpaceX had learned ways to deflect his bad ideas and drip-feed him unwelcome information, but the legacy employees at X, formerly Twitter, didn’t know how to handle him.


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    One Response to Elon Musk moving servers himself shows his ‘maniacal sense of urgency’ at X, formerly Twitter

    1. FullofStars says:
      September 14, 2023 at 7:48 pm

      The story is that he didn’t like what he heard (being told No), and went and did it anyways (because he’s the smartest guy in the room, and possible amphetamine use?)
      Supposedly Twitter is *still* broken directly because of the move, since certain things were hard coded to point to those servers at that location.

      More at
      arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/us-government-slams-musk-in-court-filing-describing-chaotic-environment-at-x/?comments=1

      and
      www.techdirt.com/2023/09/12/the-batshit-crazy-story-of-the-day-elon-musk-decided-to-personally-rip-servers-out-of-a-sacramento-data-center/

      The comments at the Tech Dirt one is funnier

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