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> “over the next few days, the absolute top priority is finding and suspending any verified bots/trolls/spam.” Is this goodbye to @ElonJet? Also, "troll" seems rather nebulous. Is it the end for anyone seen as a troublemaker?
Surely this is partially a calculated move to further reduce headcount/expenses.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think the intention is to suspend ElonJet since Musk has already explicitly said he made the choice to not suspend it despite the alleged "personal safety risk". Trolls in this case probably refers to accounts that paid for new Twitter Blue and are now impersonating well-known figures/entities. The wording seems consistent with everything going on at Twitter so far, that he's just kinda winging it while every…
Surprise! That's when he last ran a software company.
This kinda thing is great for the "remote work at all hours" is the erzats demon keeping software companies alive. If it is, we'll likely see some downtime, lots of typical E company results (burned out software folks, higher turnover than is industry standard, and much lower pay since Elon doesn't negotiate at silicon valley salary expectations at any of his companies... If in 2 years Twitter isn't significantly sma…
Hacker News top search result for "Twitter", from two years ago: Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23155647 Forever is a long time...
Prior to Musk’s arrival, Twitter had established a permanent work-from-anywhere arrangement for its workers ...for some definition of the word "permanent".
Surely this is partially a calculated move to further reduce headcount/expenses.
Here's a cool and perhaps unforeseen hypothetical turn-of-events: 100% of Twitter's staff give their resignation letter on Friday, and don't show up to work. Leadership wakes up to a collapsing platform, a 44 billion USD bill to pay, with no one to keep the lights on or answer the PagerDuty alerts. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes? No time for silly "knowledge transfers", or "onboarding new team members". You jus…
Friday afternoon: 100% of Twitter's staff are competing with each other to find a new job.