Things are not looking good for Twitter at the moment.

Since Elon Musk fired half of the company’s employees, The remaining staff were scrambling to keep the site actually running. To make matters worse, when Musk doesn’t fire more people – for example, Talking bad about him on Slack – It demands random new projects, thus draining precious resources that could be used to keep the site running.

On Monday, users noticed that the two-factor authentication system — which is supposed to send a text message with your code to log in — it was broken. This means that some people who were signed out of Twitter were unable to get back in again.

It almost certainly seems like we’re heading to Twitter just…it doesn’t work. Like, the site and app won’t load one day, maybe for a few minutes, maybe a few hours, maybe… longer?

The question is not if, when.

For the most part, affected users are taking this in stride. Ireland’s Claire Cullen on YouTube and Twitch still has her Halloween display name, “Scare Cullen / Clisare 🎃👻.” “I really don’t care,” she said. “I think Twitter will die soon anyway, so I don’t care about that.”

Then there’s the Australian newsletter writer Dan Barrettwhich had changed its display name on Twitter to a real-time countdown to the release of The Avatar: Water Road months ago as part of what he described as “an ongoing, personal joke with friends, colleagues, and readers of my newsletter over the years, as I continued to release symbol picture The movie is the greatest thing to happen in the history of cinema.”

His name is frozen as “Dan Barrett – 38 Days Until Avatar: Way of Water.” (The movie comes out in Australia on December 15), he said, “Finally there’s some kind of perfection in what might be the last days of Twitter, Twitter has come along and stuck me with the silly, silly username.” “There is something poetic about every moment.”

Hope within reach: Barrett searched Twitter and found there was a potential loophole To change the name on verified accounts. It shares a lot in common with keyboard methods to get your computer working again. After speaking with BuzzFeed News, Barrett tested the technique and found that, after two minutes of continuous mouse clicking, he was able to force himself back into being an ordinary old Dan Barrett.

Cullen worries that the small change — verified accounts are mostly unable to revert to their unobtrusive names — points to a broader, more troubling problem. “It’s an example of Elon Musk completely losing control of Twitter and trying crazy things to fix things he’s done,” she said.

Vaughn said she’s also troubled by the direction Musk is taking on Twitter. “The former leadership of Twitter, and now Elon, has lost the original value of the blue check mark: to check who’s real and what isn’t,” she said. “People should still be able to spoof and anonymize Twitter, but I like knowing that every blue check I dealt with was a real person, not just an account like @cryptoethdoge2048 who paid $8 for their bot checkmark.”

Dave Cobb, a theme park influencer from Los Angeles, is not a fan of Musk. In fact, his display name is now locked as “Dave “Lick My Taintelonmusk.”Of course, Cobb would love the freedom to change it to his legal name, but he’s OK with the situation.

“I wanted to make sure my username showed up in my clear opinion of Mr. Musk, which is that he can feel free to lick my pollution,” Cobb said via Twitter DM. “It’s fun to watch people joke about his mistakes. And if years from now my Twitter legacy is just about him daring to lick my poop, I’ll be more than happy about that.”

Yesterday, Amazon began laying off employees, starting with its Devices and Services division, which makes products like Alexa, Echo speakers, Fire TV, Ring cameras, and cloud gaming service Luna.

e-commerce giant this week It said It will lay off about 10,000 workers, or roughly 3% of the company’s staff, the largest job cuts in the company’s 28-year history. The New York Times reported Monday that the cuts are being rolled out team by team, not all at once.

“After a deep set of reviews, we recently decided to merge some of our teams and software,” Dave Limp, senior vice president of Devices and Services, wrote in a letter. to publish on the company’s website on Wednesday. “One of the consequences of these decisions is that some roles will no longer be required.”

Limp revealed that Amazon notified affected employees yesterday and will help them find new roles within the company. If an employee can’t find a new role internally, Amazon will provide them with “severance payments, transitional benefits, and outside employment support,” he wrote.

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In response to questions about how many employees have been affected so far, Amazon spokesperson Brad Glaser referred to BuzzFeed News to Limp’s statement on the site and did not share any numbers. Kelly Nantle, another Amazon spokesperson, told BuzzFeed News via email that the cuts were a result of “the current macroeconomic environment (as well as several years of rapid hiring).”

On November 17, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, ​​who hasn’t spoken publicly about the layoffs yet, said, He said In a note posted on Amazon’s website that the company will continue to make cuts across the board over the next few months. Those affected will be notified early next year.

“We’re not done yet with exactly how many other roles will be affected,” Jassy wrote.

Amazon’s layoffs come on the heels of massive cuts at social media giant Meta, which laid off – laid off temporarily More than 11,000 employees last week, and Twitter, its new owner Elon Musk have snapped More than half of its employees and Cuts Thousands of contractors around the world.

according to LayoffsMore than 120,000 tech workers have lost their jobs this year thanks to companies trying to rein in spending amid fears of a looming recession in 2023.