Seems like Melon is speed running turning it into MySpace 2.0, can’t imagine most companies are going to be buying ad space anytime soon.
If God had meant for us to see ads, He wouldn’t have invented uBlock Origin.
Most computer systems will run unmaintained a lot longer than their maintainers expect, so I don’t think it’ll undergo a total technical meltdown for weeks. Once the compounding errors start hitting though, the skeleton crew left over will not be able to figure out the root causes of any of the problems, and there could be week-long outages.
I’m no computer scientist, but that seems more true for closed computer systems performing functions without a ton of novel input rather than a system constantly dealing with novel input and output like social media.
That’s not even taking into account malicious actors who will now know that Twitter is vulnerable and want to have a go at fucking it up.
A social network’s content isn’t novel from the computer’s perspective. It’s just text, images, and videos. And twitter is big enough that it should already have been bombarded by malicious actors all the time. I’d expect things are fairly well hardened.
The most common reason that systems fall over is because some other engineer made a change that should’ve been unrelated, but tripped over a dumb assumption or needlessly brittle system. If it’s a complete ghost town, that stops happening, so you’re left with physical computer problems, out of memory errors, some maintenance script that you didn’t realize was just running on one dev’s box, and that sort of thing. Of course, since it’s only stable because nobody is touching it, it can mean everything falls apart as soon as people come back and start trying to do normal work.
Every employee is locked out until the 21st.
First game of the World Cup is on the 20th.
People share opinions, memes, video clips, etc. of sporting events. People in the Middle East and Europe are very passionate about their soccer (AKA Unamerican Football), as are the people of Latin America.
High traffic tends to break things.
Nobody will be there to fix things that break.
Something will break.
