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re: Twitter Purge continues, Offices Locked Down Until Monday?
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:27 pm to stout
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:27 pm to stout
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This is going to show these companies that they can run much leaner and none of them will ever get that bloated again. It will also end the adult daycare offices they have.
They'll have to get recruited by a big time college football program to see those amenities again.
*Probably won't all go away. But investors will eventually get tired of the waste.
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Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:28 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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Why did Elon offer so much for a company that many now say was already doomed before he stepped in?
Because it's not?
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:29 pm to BuckyCheese
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A huge userbase
They were all bots.
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:29 pm to BuckyCheese
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But investors will eventually get tired of the waste.
Seeing Sequoia invested in FTX
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:31 pm to uptiger1997
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Which tech companies of Twitter's scale are laying off 50-90% of their headcount, including engineers?
I will give you that it's not at the same scale, but maybe....JUUUUUUUUST MAYBE...they never needed that many people to begin with.
I was on Twitter earlier - was working perfectly fine.
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:31 pm to uptiger1997
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Which tech companies of Twitter's scale are laying off 50-90% of their headcount, including engineers?
The difference is the current ownership of those companies built that culture. It is their own creation.
Elon is purging the bad culture that doesn't want to be there and share his vision so he can bring in others that fit in. You act like he won't be able to replace the ones that quit or get fired yet somehow he has great engineers working for him in his other companies. Engineers that handle way more complicated stuff than a social media platform.
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:32 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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They were all bots.
Oh, I see what you were going for, but you fell short.
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:32 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Silicon Valley is about to realize that there are a LOT of words that follow what I just quoted.
Absolutely. Hopefully this makes its way over to the VC world too.
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:33 pm to RummelTiger
Need to catch up on the last few pages, but the thought that twitter is equivalent of some dude running a Wordpress blog in his moms basement is pretty funny.
You don’t need an HR department though.
You don’t need an HR department though.
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:33 pm to TomJoadGhost
quote:So Elon is bad at running companies now?
I think his point was Elon isn’t the business genius many here believe him to be
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:34 pm to stout
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Engineers that handle way more complicated stuff than a social media platform.
I mean he oversaw the building of Tesla's tech platform from scratch. This goes from the app to the nav to the networking. Oh, and a functioning AI program that developed driverless cars.
So whatever backend is necessary to keep Twitter going, he has already built that for a fleet of interconnected driving cars.
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:36 pm to SlowFlowPro
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So whatever backend is necessary to keep Twitter going, he has already built that for a fleet of interconnected driving cars.
If you take him for what he says, he has been sleeping at the Twitter office helping to code some of the new and upcoming features himself well into the night.
This post was edited on 11/17/22 at 9:37 pm
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:37 pm to JohnnyKilroy
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This post was edited on 4/15/23 at 8:11 am
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:37 pm to stout
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No one wants to dick around with RSS.
Yeah, but this is in the event that Twitter does fail spectacularly, though I think that chance is remote.
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:37 pm to stout
Also, now that I think about it, if he's going to be building everything into one app, eventually all of these Twitter "experts" will become dinosaurs b/c I'm sure he's going to build Twitter off of Tesla/Starlink and not vice versa.
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:38 pm to SlowFlowPro
Bingo
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:38 pm to ReauxlTide222
Liquidate most of Twitter staff and move to HQ to Texas and rehire a staff more suited to his work ethic.
Weather the storm and keep twitter going until then. It’s not like users are boycotting it in droves. Engagement was actually up. He’s dealing with a staff mutiny in an era where their skill set went from being scarce and cutting edge to much more common place.
Worst case Twitter dies and one less divisive social media entity exists and funny enough it will actually crush many of the controversial media websites that strive on the free link distribution they get through Twitter…
Weather the storm and keep twitter going until then. It’s not like users are boycotting it in droves. Engagement was actually up. He’s dealing with a staff mutiny in an era where their skill set went from being scarce and cutting edge to much more common place.
Worst case Twitter dies and one less divisive social media entity exists and funny enough it will actually crush many of the controversial media websites that strive on the free link distribution they get through Twitter…
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:40 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Also, now that I think about it, if he's going to be building everything into one app, eventually all of these Twitter "experts" will become dinosaurs b/c I'm sure he's going to build Twitter off of Tesla/Starlink and not vice versa.
There ya go.
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:40 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Also, now that I think about it, if he's going to be building everything into one app, eventually all of these Twitter "experts" will become dinosaurs b/c I'm sure he's going to build Twitter off of Tesla/Starlink and not vice versa.
He wants you to be able to rideshare through Twitter. He also owns a company that builds cars and is betting heavily on driverless cars.
See where he is going? "X" is going to do everything he says.
Video features and long form tweets are coming very soon he said on top of monetization for content creators. That will kill people from linking Youtube on Twitter if they can just upload to Twitter and monetize it there.
This post was edited on 11/17/22 at 9:42 pm
Posted on 11/17/22 at 9:44 pm to SlowFlowPro
I have to believe he has a plan that will work out in the long term. Like him or not he has been very successful up til this point.
That being said no one is immune to making a bad business deal.
That being said no one is immune to making a bad business deal.
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