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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8832434" data-attributes="member: 5948">The only reason Y2K didn't end in disaster is because all over the world, loads of people took the possibility seriously, and spent years proactively working hard to prevent it.  The Y2K bug response is probably one of the greatest successes the IT sector as a whole has ever had, and it still gets me steamed up when people act as though it was all a big funny nothingburger and we all got worried for no reason.  But you never get any credit for the disasters you successfully avert, I guess.  Nobody stops at the traffic lights and then gives fulsome thanks to the mechanic who last serviced their brakes.Twitter is doing the exact opposite to what the tech industry did in response to Y2K.  It's busy sacking all the people who've been keeping the lights on up to now, and gutting its internal expertise and experience base.  I'm not in the social media field, but I've worked in the financial software sector for over a decade so I'm fairly familiar with how big complicated systems run, on an everyday level. From everything I'm reading, all my professional experience tells me the platform is circling the drain.  This doesn't mean it'll die today, or tomorrow, or next week.  But it means that by the law of averages, something will soon go wrong and they'll have sacked everyone who knew that bit of the system and how to fix it.</blockquote>