Several thousand employees have left Twitter since the arrival of Elon Musk. This caused major computer flaws, reports “Phonandroid”.
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Dince his arrival at the head of Twitter, Elon Musk has dismissed employees in waves. Others left on their own. In some departments, there is simply no one left. This has notably caused serious failures in the copyright protection system, reports the Phonandroid site. Internet users have had fun posting entire films on the platform, such as Fast and Furious, Need for Speed or Avatar. Movies, yes, but in two-minute sequences. Because the setting that blocks longer videos continues to work.
The pirates therefore posted these films in different threads (series of tweets) which remained online for a long time, for some more than 24 hours. The objective was not to harm the filmmakers, but to show that the actions of Elon Musk weakened Twitter so much that it caused failures even in the services supposed to be autonomous and automatic.
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