Might as well have just fired them. There’s no way a feature like that can get released in most companies on that timeline, even without the scale issues.
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#22"Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired." Well I hope the meme that elon is some kind of benevolent and inspiring leader is truly dead and buried.
Have you ever thought for a second that you can’t trust the media? Or trust the word of a disgruntled employee who’s just trying to give a black eye to the employer who is about to let him/her go? It pretty funny watching the posts coming across this and other platforms thinking the world is ending because Elon comes out and says he’s going to make twitter balanced instead blatantly left leaning.
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#23Might as well have just fired them. There’s no way a feature like that can get released in most companies on that timeline, even without the scale issues.
I mean... something can always get released. I would imagine few people who don't get fired on Nov 7th are going to be around in another two months anyway though, who wants to work under such treatment in a job market like this? (Unless you're hoping for some kind of vesting of something I guess?)
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#24I'm a twitter "heavy user" - logging in daily and tweeting > 4x per week. Users like me make up 10% of users, but 90% of tweets.
I've been a heavy user X 15 years and I'm still not a blue check. I perceive no benefit in being verified and I doubt being verified would have/will change my experience as a user.
If they verified me for FREE I wouldn't care. $20/month to be verified on a site controlled by a maniac in the process of making the product unusable? No way.
After 3 days of Musk's ownership I'm already half-way out. As soon as these paid options are rolled out I will gladly be gone from the platform forever.
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#26> Now employees are fearing that layoffs will begin before November 1st, when a significant percentage of them are set to receive stock grants paid out in cash at $54.20 a share. Shortly after this story was published, Musk tweeted “This is false” in response to a tweet featuring another story claiming that the layoffs would happen before that date. Side question, but real question -- how do stock grants in a non-pub…
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#27"Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired." Well I hope the meme that elon is some kind of benevolent and inspiring leader is truly dead and buried.
There's negative employee morale after being acquired, and then there's this .
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why can’t this be automated with identification scanning software, which is highly commoditized at this point?
In my opinion it's dangerous to make verification too easy. Right now verification means, approximately, "this is somebody". Make verification too easy and it becomes "this person pays for Twitter" which is probably the opposite of what you want. I would say - keep verification as exclusive as it is, or slightly less, and charge for it is optimal.
Make it easy.
Payment connects you to a payment identity.
Ban payment identities that fraudulently pretend to be someone else on their name and profile.
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#30I'm a twitter "heavy user" - logging in daily and tweeting > 4x per week. Users like me make up 10% of users, but 90% of tweets. I've been a heavy user X 15 years and I'm still not a blue check. I perceive no benefit in being verified and I doubt being verified would have/will change my experience as a user. If they verified me for FREE I wouldn't care. $20/month to be verified on a site controlled by a maniac in the…
same -i'm an extremely heavy user, now i'm investigating what alternatives are out there