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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.

We'll see, a lot of business can run for a couple months with a skeleton crew. But even in that time they've had non stop issues, doesn't bode well.
 
He is very smart. He has started or improved many failing businesses.

Zip2
PayPal
Tesla
Space x


Zip2 and PayPal at the time we’re revolutionary. PayPal was actually voted worst business idea of the year, then it became a billion dollar company. He too Tesla out of bankruptcy. You may not like him . He isn’t dumb though.

Game changer for eBay at the time. Didn’t have run to the post office to pick up a money order to pay for purchases.
 
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What kind of “smart businessman” buys something without the intention to make money from it? Does he think he’s running Twitter as a public service? If so, why the maniacal need to slash the workforce/pimp for advertisers/brag about engagement numbers?

Either he’s a brilliant businessman who’s making the smart decisions to make Twitter profitable, or he’s a sham who’s happy setting his money on fire so he can troll his critics on his very own social media platform. I know which option looks the most likely at the moment.
Some legit bus 101 comments. I agree. He has mentioned the public service in the past 90 days.

Why do people get mad at him? What's the point? It's his money.
 
We’ll see how long it holds up. It takes a fair amount of work to keep a platform of that size just operational. There’s constant maintenance. It will run just fine right up until it doesn’t.
It's possible. People also had zero doubt TESLA and SpaceX would fail. Twitter might indeed fail. Most companies do even some of Elon's.
 
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Add to that he’s trying to add new features as well.
Yeah, I’d imagine the remaining team (whatever’s left after this weekend) will have a very tough time just keeping up with bug fixes and maintenance. Developing and QAing new features isn’t going to get a whole lot of time with everyone focused on putting out fires. Losing that much institutional knowledge also makes everything all that much harder.
 
Btw pornhub has 150 employees world wide and they never have site issues. So I still don’t understand why Twitter had so many employees. I guess we will see if they run the company with 50 percent less employees if they needed them or not

Again, hosting a website doesn't take a huge amount of people. In your example that's especially true when the only outside interaction is clicking play and uploading videos.
 
Btw pornhub has 150 employees world wide and they never have site issues. So I still don’t understand why Twitter had so many employees. I guess we will see if they run the company with 50 percent less employees if they needed them or not
Pornhub is owned by another company (mindgeek) that has far more employees. That company likely is responsible for the infrastructure all the company's websites run on.

They've also run into their own problems with moderation, leading them to have to gut their site's content because they couldn't handle it without child porn getting through. Maybe not the best example to use.
 
Btw pornhub has 150 employees world wide and they never have site issues. So I still don’t understand why Twitter had so many employees. I guess we will see if they run the company with 50 percent less employees if they needed them or not
 
This Twitter thread, ironic, was shared in the cave. Very informative. For the Musk fanboys @Drew0311 @Mr.G.Spot et all… please read it, and share if you learned anything new about Musk.



I love this type of stuff. I’m now a fan boy because I said he is a smart businessman? How about I just respect guys like him, Jeff Bazos, gates and the rest of the super rich smart guys. Does not mean I’m a fan boy. Just means I’m not so stupid to think the not smart guys we’re able to make billions, run multiple companies and change the way things work, are actually dumb.
 
I love this type of stuff. I’m now a fan boy because I said he is a smart businessman? How about I just respect guys like him, Jeff Bazos, gates and the rest of the super rich smart guys. Does not mean I’m a fan boy. Just means I’m not so stupid to think the not smart guys we’re able to make billions, run multiple companies and change the way things work, are actually dumb.
Read the thread linked, and share what you learned.
 
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