Whether on purpose or by accident, the truth is that Twitter, because it is in the hands of Elon Musk, never ceases to deliver the most engaging headlines (do not use other more emphatic qualifiers). At this point, apart from talking about each of the measures taken by the billionaire, the big conversation is about the big question: does everything correspond to the exact millimeter of the plan proposed by Musk and his advisers, or, on the contrary, we see an extreme improvisational exercise with a “toy” that cost him 44,000 million dollars , for which it is still not very clear how they will pay.

The enormity of this operation prompts us to consider the other Well, after all, who would risk that amount of money, no matter how impulsive a millionaire he is? It doesn’t seem logical, so I completely understand those who hold this position. Elon Musk may be eccentric, but he doesn’t seem at all likely to be stupid, and we can’t help but think that his secret plan all along was to destroy Twitter.

However, the consequences of some of their actions are perfect breeding ground for the assumption that the need to minimize economic losses in the short term (green numbers still seem difficult to achieve in the short term) added to its special character. yes, they would lead Musk not to analyze with due calmness and deepen some of the decisions you have made in recent weeks.

We found the clearest example of this in the massive layoffs by Twitter. Layoffs that led some departments and eliminated others entirely, leaving the social media workforce a fraction of what it was a few weeks ago. The problem is that, while we understand the downsizing as a cost-cutting measure, it seems to have been done with a small head, leading to the company being forced to ask some workers who had previously been laid off to get back to work. From the programmers to the person in charge of the access control system to the offices of the social network.

List of developers who remained on the staff after the first resignations, the subsequent departure of subcontractors and last week those who did not agree to the terms crunch The work imposed by Musk appears to have been reduced to a minimum, to the extent that Musk has reportedly temporarily moved some Tesla engineers to Twitter. And now, as we can read in Ars Technica, Elon Musk is looking for remaining programmers on Twitter to talk to them to try to better understand, he said, how the “guts” of the social network work.

for this purpose, He has already sent out no less than three e-mails to all the company’s employees, with the aim of meeting each of them, either in person or via video conference. Of course, from what we can see in the first of the leaked reports, before these meetings take place, he wants to know what each of them has done in the last six months at the company:

«Who actually writes software, report today at 2 pm on the 10th floor. Before doing so, please email a summary of what your code commands have accomplished over the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most significant lines of code.» Also adds «These will be short technical talks that will allow me to better understand Twitter’s technology stack.»

As I said before, I understand that the Twitter downsizing was a necessary step to try to clean up their accounts, but given this need to meet with the developers better understand the technology behind the social network (a very smart move indeed), it would probably make a lot more sense to have these conversations before firing many of those responsible for such developments. And it’s that now with the remaining engineers, it’s quite likely that there are enough black holes left on the map that he intends to draw. And that really makes me think again about improvisation, more than planning.