Amusing that as CEO/Owner of >1 company there's no way for Musk to "work in the office". Will he fire himself?
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#152> over the next few days, the absolute top priority is finding and suspending any verified bots/trolls/spam.
Would it improve the situation to simply require a CAPTCHA once per day per non-subscriber to tweet? I would think it would greatly increase the cost to operate a troll farm, but have minimal impact on real users (setting aside accessibility and third-party clients a moment). If it causes attrition because some people decide it's not worth two seconds of clicking fire hydrants to voice their thought, nothing of value was lost.
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#154At this point why would anyone want to stay at twitter? The mood must be absolutely abysmal.
Definitely check with Twitter employees before assuming that. On the one hand yeah, maybe. On the other, if I was depressed with how off-course my company had gotten, watching someone come in and clean house / shake things up would be very exciting.
Unless Musk is giving existing workers a ton of ISOs I don’t see why they should care at all how Twitter does at this point. A worker being excited about a shakeup entailing significantly less freedom, and significantly more work, stress and instability has got to have a bad case of brain worms.
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#155I have to admit if I was an executive and I watched one of those "day in the life of" tiktoks from twitter employees that show them spending maybe 20% of their day doing work and the other 80% enjoying company amenities I might be considering tightening things up as well.
That video was recorded while being at the office . If anything, it's evidence against the supposed effectiveness of forbidding remote work.
Right. I mean, bringing back everyone to the office would just be a part of the tightening, which is quite obviously happening with Musk's reign.
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#156I am split on the remote work thing from a productivity / creativity perspective. I do think there are times when I'm less productivity working from home compared to the office. I also think as a team we're less creative. Some of the best stuff I've done in my career has come out of casual conversations with my team about the stuff we're building. I've noticed I don't think about what I'm building as much when workin…
> Were I working at Twitter I'd probably be looking for a new job after this announcement.
Highest impact is mid project. You know, to make it hurt.
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#157I think that the NYT article has the much better lede from the emails in it:
Due to resignations by 3 top execs yesterday, engineers are now likely to have to make sure that their code is compliant with the FTC w.r.t. the 2011 judgement against Twitter.
As in, there is a good chance that individual SWEs at Twitter are going to be legally culpable for violations.
Even if I am totally misreading that quick lede about dense legalese (likely), it still says that Twitter currently has no reasonable way to stay in the FTC's good graces for the foreseeable future.
Y'all, don't try to appease a billionaire and get yourself in legal trouble. Don't even try to chance it. Walk away.
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#158I am split on the remote work thing from a productivity / creativity perspective. I do think there are times when I'm less productivity working from home compared to the office. I also think as a team we're less creative. Some of the best stuff I've done in my career has come out of casual conversations with my team about the stuff we're building. I've noticed I don't think about what I'm building as much when workin…
> I've noticed I don't think about what I'm building as much when working remote, I'm just building it.
I'm the complete opposite haha, I do much better deep thinking at home. This doesn't invalidate your point, nor am I trying to. More just saying, we all work differently, and all of our styles are equally valid. Hybrid WFH is great :D
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#160Whatsapp had 1B users with far fewer eng, why is Twitter so big? Here is my back of the envelope math of how big I think the company should be for their main offering. Over the past years Twitter has acquired a ton of companies, but I'm going to leave them out of this equation. Eng (250) =========== Backend/Storage: 100 eng Subscriptions: 50 Front-End: 50 eng iOS App: 20 eng Android App: 20 eng UX: 10 Abuse/Moderatio…
You really think a total of 200 moderators could come even close? Thats 1.7M tweets a day per moderator. A bit over 3500 per minute. And thats assuming they work 7 days a week, never get sick, never take vacation.
Most of moderation is typically outsourced so it doesnt countin this list