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James Bellenger @jbell

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Joined July 2009
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James Bellenger@jbell
3 Nov 2022
This seems like a fine time to look back on the rather decent API platform our team built at Twitter.
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Is this thing still on? Come to my #GraphQLConf talk if you're going this week. I promise it's going to be a good one.
Airbnb Engineering@AirbnbEng
May 18
We built a new GraphQL engine and launched it with 0 spec conformance bugs. How? Fuzz testing — finding the edge cases we didn't know to look for. James Bellenger is sharing how at #GraphQLConf 2026 @GraphQL graphql.org/conf/2026/schedu…
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Alex Levenson@THISWILLWORK
17 Nov 2022
I am going to miss this place. We built something special here, and I do not expect to see its like ever again. I have worked here at Twitter for over 11 years. Back in July, I was the 27th most tenured employee at the company. Now I'm the 15th. I am not going to click "yes"
A farewell letter sent in slack, text in thread to follow

ALT A farewell letter sent in slack, text in thread to follow

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James Bellenger@jbell
15 Nov 2022
Fired a little less than 8 years in the tweet mines. I loved working here.
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James Bellenger@jbell
15 Nov 2022
Couldn't agree more strongly.
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sasha solomon@sachee
13 Nov 2022
you did not just layoff almost all of infra and then make some sassy remark about how we do batching like did you bother to even learn how graphql works
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
13 Nov 2022
Btw, I’d like to apologize for Twitter being super slow in many countries. App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!
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Lou Paskalis 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇮🇱@LouPas
4 Nov 2022
Replying to @elonmusk
Elon, Great chat yesterday, As you heard overwhelmingly from senior advertisers on the call, the issue concerning us all is content moderation and its impact on BRAND SAFETY/SUITABILITY. You say you’re committed to moderation, but you just laid off 75% of the moderation team!
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Mike Cvet@mikecvet
4 Nov 2022
I think its fair to say that new management is entering the “find out” phase
berk d. demir@bd
4 Nov 2022
homeboy got fact checked.
space karen spews out unsubstantiated nonsense, taking a page from late president's book. gets fact checked on his $44B sinking ship.

ALT space karen spews out unsubstantiated nonsense, taking a page from late president's book. gets fact checked on his $44B sinking ship.

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Charlie Croom@CharlieCroom
4 Nov 2022
This dude is laying off thousands right now, has said nothing all week, can't be bothered to sign the letter, and doesn't have the decency to keep his mouth shut for like 12 hours. Just a truly staggering lack of leadership or decency.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
4 Nov 2022
Why is small talk even legal!?
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This seems like a fine time to look back on the rather decent API platform our team built at Twitter.
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I’m exceptionally proud of what our team has built over the last 5 years. It is hardcore engineering at scale, solving difficult problems, built humanely.
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The team that built this platform are the kindest and most talented humans that I’ve had the privilege of working with. Thank you. #OneTeam
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