Elon Emails

Pause new features for stability before Super Bowl

From:
Elon Musk
Date:
February 8, 2023 (Sent after the Feb. 8, 2023 outage, per The Information; exact time unknown)
To:
Twitter employees

Excerpt. Only this much of the email has been made public.

Please pause for now on new feature development in favor of maximizing system stability and robustness, especially with the Super Bowl coming up.

About this email

After a widespread Twitter outage, Musk tells staff to pause new feature development in favor of system stability and robustness ahead of the Super Bowl.

Notes

Email first reported by The Information (not retrievable in this session); only this sentence was quoted.

Where it came from

Leaked to press; attribution single-source.

Twitter/X, company-wide memo. Tags: outage, stability, engineering, super-bowl

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