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[MeowingCows]

And no equivalent reason to do that for Twitter. It doesn't have nearly the attachment space travel or early EVs have

Working 80-100 hour weeks for a text/image based social media site does not sound worth it, at all. Especially when your top leader has spent weeks making total nonsense moves and you know you have exactly zero job security based on recent behavior.

Who in their right mind stays on for that? Having Twitter on the resume will help you get plenty of other job opps.

 

[Drew0311]

Btw I don’t see Twitter dying. Musk is one of the smarter business guys out there. He basically don’t fail. Once you have e his type of money it’s actually hard to fail unless the product is something nobody wants. Twitter is a product people like.

 

[simply1]

So I ask a question and u think you are neat by being the know it all guy? Got ya

I don’t see a question mark in there. You stated you don’t know anything about it, then gave an opinion. Cool?

 

[3TrueFans]

Twitter did not need that many engineers. They know it and Musk knew it. Same thing for Facebook. You get that many engineers and they are just looking for things to do like block freedom of speech and fact checking. No real value added with that many engineers.

edit: Most of them on visa's or from foreign countries not US citizens. Not that I have anything against them just saying it isn't all US citizens getting laid off.

This ain't the cave, bro.

 

[KnappShack]

Guarantee you they don’t lack high end applicants.

How can you guarantee this? Do you have access to this information? You wouldn't just throw stuff out there if you didn't have a rock solid support.

 

[bluestarcyclone]

Working 80-100 hour weeks for a text/image based social media site does not sound worth it, at all. Especially when your top leader has spent weeks making total nonsense moves and you know you have exactly zero job security based on recent behavior.

Who in their right mind stays on for that? Having Twitter on the resume will help you get plenty of other job opps.

And those who had/were getting equity in stocks had that cashed out when the company was taken private.

 

[FerShizzle]

I know more than a few people whos business was built there and if it goes it will seriously hurt their brand.

If a major part of your business is reliant on a free service provided, maintained, and regulated by another for profit business…

 

[bluestarcyclone]

Btw I don’t see Twitter dying. Musk is one of the smarter husky guys out there. He basically don’t fail. Once you have e his type of money it’s actually hard to fail unless the product is something nobody wants. Twitter is a product people like.

Lol. Musk has failed at a lot of things. He's a snake oil salesman and a lot of people fall for it.

 

[CyCrazy]

So I ask a question and u think you are neat by being the know it all guy? Got ya

Simply is a whinny b itch.

 

[Mr.G.Spot]

Both of those are government-backed. Life's easy under subsidy and government contracting. Twitter does not fall into those categories.

Also, Elon still financed about 40% of his Twitter purchase IIRC.

More than 40%. Try 70ish%.

Gov backed? Do u mean they have ownership in SpaceX? Do you mean the government has awarded him big contracts that were a bid process? Yes, they have. Good for him.

Hell, I am not sure if Tesla has produced an Operating Profit on a GAAP basis. They make their profits selling the tax credits given to him by our government.

Brilliant on his part - he goes to the biggest pocket on earth to jump start and de-risk his ideas- the US Government.

 

[Bigman38]

Btw I don’t see Twitter dying. Musk is one of the smarter husky guys out there. He basically don’t fail. Once you have e his type of money it’s actually hard to fail unless the product is something nobody wants. Twitter is a product people like.

He's not smart, just rich. But you're right, that makes it very hard to actually fail in this country.

 

[KidSilverhair]

Twitter did not need that many engineers. They know it and Musk knew it. Same thing for Facebook. You get that many engineers and they are just looking for things to do like block freedom of speech and fact checking. No real value added with that many engineers.

edit: Most of them on visa's or from foreign countries not US citizens. Not that I have anything against them just saying it isn't all US citizens getting laid off.

A lot of dumb in this post, but espousing the current right-wing belief that “fact checking” is somehow biased or bad really takes the cake.

When your argument is “verifying the truth of my statement attacks my freedom of speech!” you’re just admitting you think your (perhaps baseless & unproven) opinions hold the same weight as actual, verifiable facts - which is just about the most destructive thing about today’s social media and politics.

 

[isutrevman]

A lot of people have been claiming it's 1-2 days away from collapsing for the last three weeks. I haven't noticed any issues since Elon took over. Seems like he trimmed a lot of fat with no apparent consequences to how Twitter runs. I think that's pretty common for large tech companies. Didn't Facebook just lay off like 10,000 employees and no one batted an eye? For the majority of people that use Twitter, if they didn't know Elon bought it, they would have no idea anything is different.

 

[MeowingCows]

More than 40%. Try 70ish%.

Gov backed? Do u mean they have ownership in SpaceX? Do you mean the government has awarded him big contracts that were a bid process? Yes, they have. Good for him.

Hell, I am not sure if Tesla has produced an Operating Profit on a GAAP basis. They make their selling the tax credits given to him by our government.

Brilliant on his part - he goes to the biggest pocket on earth to jump start and de-risk his ideas- the US Government.

It's a great idea until the well runs dry, or until competitors put out better products.

 

[KidSilverhair]

He's not smart, just rich. But you're right, that makes it very hard to actually fail in this country.

Yeah, a smart person wouldn’t think “I need to cut my expenses in half, so I’ll just fire half my employees and ask the rest of them to work twice as hard”

 

[Mr.G.Spot]

I don't think he is going to completely kill Twitter but I don't see how he will make his investment back.

He doesn't need to.

 

[Mr.G.Spot]

It's a great idea until the well runs dry, or until competitors put out better products.

We are in violent agreement. He currently has an unfair competition situation given to him by our government. That won't last forever.

 

[Mr.G.Spot]

Working 80-100 hour weeks for a text/image based social media site does not sound worth it, at all. Especially when your top leader has spent weeks making total nonsense moves and you know you have exactly zero job security based on recent behavior.

Who in their right mind stays on for that? Having Twitter on the resume will help you get plenty of other job opps.

A lot of people will.

 

[isutrevman]

He "realized" nothing. He's always been a fraud and is a tool to destroy a platform many marginalized and oppressed groups use globally to share what is happening to them.

What do you mean by "fraud"? What does he do or say that you think is fraudulent? Are you saying Tesla is a fraudulent company? SpaceX? His buying of Twitter was fraudulent? He pretends to be something he's not? I'm going to need specifics.

 

[KidSilverhair]

A lot of people have been claiming it's 1-2 days away from collapsing for the last three weeks. I haven't noticed any issues since Elon took over. Seems like he trimmed a lot of fat with no apparent consequences to how Twitter runs. I think that's pretty common for large tech companies. Didn't Facebook just lay off like 10,000 employees and no one batted an eye? For the majority of people that use Twitter, if they didn't know Elon bought it, they would have no idea anything is different.

I’m no tech wizard, but all it takes is for something to trip a rarely used line of faulty code to bring the whole thing down, and without the experienced engineers on staff to recognize and correct it, it’ll stay down. What needs to happen to trip that line of code? Will it happen today? Next week? Never? I don’t know.

He already shut off one microservice the other day that botched the two-factor authentication element so that accounts that signed out couldn’t sign back in. There’s thousands of little elements like that all fitting together - I wouldn’t be surprised if some decision to shut down a “useless” part of the app spirals into a real cluster.