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| With the 2022 World Cup kicking off tomorrow Twitter is in danger of crashing |
The Guardian reported on Friday, citing a Twitter insider familiar with how the company responds to systemic incidents, that if there is a significant outage during the World Cup, there is a 50% chance that the site will be shut down.
The newspaper stated that the former employee, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter, was aware of the work of Twitter command center, the platform's troubleshooting team, which monitors the site for problems such as traffic spikes and the data center. outages.
"Between the lack of preparation and the lack of staff, I think the World Cup will be difficult for Twitter," he said.
He indicated that there was an almost certain incident during the 29-day race in Qatar, such as: slow service response or an error, and estimated the probability of users seeing an error at 90%.
According to the former employee, Twitter's chances of staying online during the tournament, which begins on Sunday, aren't much better. He added, “Twitter traffic can spike and crash early in the race. But if we're lucky, he'll recover with minimal disruption.”
In particular, any ability to respond to IT infrastructure issues has been curtailed by Twitter since Elon Musk, CEO of electric car maker Tesla and founder of space exploration company SpaceX, bought the platform for $44 billion since its October 28 acquisition. .
Nearly half of the company's 7,500 employees were laid off in the first week. In the second week, four out of five of the company's 5,500 contractors were laid off. Nearly 1,000 employees quit this week after Musk told them to choose between overtime or quitting.
Many of those who quit were among Twitter's oldest employees, some of whom have been there for nearly nine years. According to The Observer, a third of Twitter's command center employees have left the company in recent weeks.
And now, with people trying to discuss pivotal moments from the World Cup, the company doesn't seem prepared for the traffic that could flood the platform.
"Traffic can be very heavy at major events, so a big game or contentious call will cause a spike in traffic that the infrastructure has to accommodate," said the former employee.
Musk tweeted about the worlds Friday night: “The World Series kicks off Sunday! Check out the best coverage and live commentary on Twitter.