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Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by bagels »

imron wrote: post #106
slg wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is a little strange that I have seen almost no Twitter stories on the front page in the last week. Has dang or anyone talked about why that might be? Is it getting caught in the flamewar algorithm? Are they treating this as one big story so any individual article gets removed as a repost?

> Has dang or anyone talked about why that might be? I’ve personally been visiting new and flagging all Twitter/mastodon posts I see (i started doing this after getting sick of all the Twitter/mastodon posts hitting the front page). I don’t want the front page to be all Twitter all the time, and most of the posts boil down to speculation and gossip and the ones that don’t, usually don’t offer anything meaningfully ne…

Well, that is a misfortune for the rest of us who find it relevant.

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Post by CPLX »

andrewinardeer wrote: post #29
heyitsguay wrote: post #3

Is there precedent anyone can point to where these sorts of wild dramatic moves under new leadership led to turning a large company around into success?

Jack Welch at General Electric. Granted it wasn't a tech company though.

He took one of the most valuable and enduring companies in American history and destroyed it completely. It no longer exists.

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Post by philosopher1234 »

bagels wrote: post #113
justapassenger wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I sense “nobody knew social media can be so complicated” vibe.

It's really funny, because his beliefs stated in public were so naive, and obviously belied the fact that he grossly underestimated what it takes to build and run a successful social media company.

All the musky users of hacker news seem to have vanished. Curious

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Post by Balgair »

dorkwood wrote: post #117

Could this be all part of the plan, though? A way to single out the true believers?

And do what with them? Completely rebuild Twitter in prod? Loyalty has nothing to do with the requirement of being one of the most exceptional programmers in existence.

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Post by MonkeyMalarky »

MBCook wrote: post #94
techolic wrote: post #84

The next outage will have a good likelihood of being the last outage.

Yeah. Multiple entire teams that run critical systems have reportedly left. It’s over. Dead site running. Such a horrible loss. Glad the stockholders are happy. This was clearly better than the lawsuit. /s

Well the offices supposedly open up again on the 21st, which is coincidentally also the start of the world cup? That's gonna be fun.

Re: Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

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Post by nickthegreek »

partiallypro wrote: post #73
zeruch wrote: post #42

Didn't Elon demand everyone back to the office?

Many outlets walked back that story, apparently it only applied to some.

They didn’t walk it back, Elon did with a new email he sent out. Outlets reported this new fact.
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