{"id":9951,"date":"2023-03-02T23:53:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T23:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2023\/03\/02\/implications-of-the-twitter-layoffs-on-all-technology-departments\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T23:53:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T23:53:55","slug":"implications-of-the-twitter-layoffs-on-all-technology-departments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2023\/03\/02\/implications-of-the-twitter-layoffs-on-all-technology-departments\/","title":{"rendered":"Implications of the Twitter layoffs on all technology departments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:2536,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitterisgoinggreat.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260204034236\\\/https:\\\/\\\/twitterisgoinggreat.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-21 04:14:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 03:21:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 23:08:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 17:43:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 21:52:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-16 22:48:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-16 22:48:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2537,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.forbes.com\\\/sites\\\/siladityaray\\\/2023\\\/02\\\/27\\\/twitter-reportedly-lays-off-200-staffers-including-head-of-blue-subscription-service\\\/amp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240421213211\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.forbes.com\\\/sites\\\/siladityaray\\\/2023\\\/02\\\/27\\\/twitter-reportedly-lays-off-200-staffers-including-head-of-blue-subscription-service\\\/amp\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-04 03:39:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-21 04:14:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 03:21:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 23:08:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 17:43:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 21:52:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-16 22:48:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-16 22:48:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n<p>I\u2019ve been pondering: does the fact that Twitter is still functioning set expectations for business executives, who will think it\u2019s fine to slash a technology budget and still expect core services to remain? Will they be asking \u201cwhat were all these IT staff doing all day\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>We know that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitterisgoinggreat.com\" title=\"Twitter is Going Great!\">the service is creaking and has some major problems<\/a>, but the headline is that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/siladityaray\/2023\/02\/27\/twitter-reportedly-lays-off-200-staffers-including-head-of-blue-subscription-service\/amp\/\" title=\"Forbes: Elon Musk Reportedly Lays Off 200 Twitter Staffers After Saying He Wants To \u2018Stabilize\u2019 Company\">Musk slashed the workforce from 7,500 to 1,800<\/a> and it is still chugging along months later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2023\/03\/02\/implications-of-the-twitter-layoffs-on-all-technology-departments\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Implications of the Twitter layoffs on all technology departments?\"><div class='e-content p-summary'>I\u2019ve been pondering: does the fact that Twitter is still functioning set expectations for business executives, who will think it\u2019s fine to slash a technology budget and still expect core services to remain? Will they be asking \u201cwhat were all these IT staff doing all day\u201d? We know that the service is creaking and has [&hellip;]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-technology","7":"category-work","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10082,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2023\/05\/08\/the-hallucinations-of-ai-creators\/","url_meta":{"origin":9951,"position":0},"title":"The hallucinations of AI creators","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"8 May 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Naomi Klein, writing in The Guardian: The former Google CEO Eric Schmidt summed up the case when he told the Atlantic that AI\u2019s risks were worth taking, because \u201cIf you think about the biggest problems in the world, they are all really hard \u2013 climate change, human organizations, and so\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Business","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/category\/business\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":918,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2015\/06\/11\/of-project-portfolios-and-an-uncertain-future\/","url_meta":{"origin":9951,"position":1},"title":"Of project portfolios and an uncertain future","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"11 June 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier this week I was fortunate enough to attend the Gartner Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and IT Governance summit. 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