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

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Post by colechristensen »

trillic wrote: post #162
valeg wrote: post #54

Why Elon insists on actually running a company? He should hire competent people and stick to PR/bullshit thing. It works wonders in his other ventures, mostly. And no, competent doesn't mean Kimbal.

Hire Oracle/Ibm to run the servers, grab some recently laid off Facebook moderators to do some moderation, and give it a quarter to figure out what the fuck to do.

Oh god, i know you’re serious but the ultimate in “enterprise” managing the ultimate in “overgrown disorganized startup” would be a ridiculous failure. It would take ten billion dollars and a decade to get something functional.

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

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Post by rurp »

prawn wrote: post #145
mym1990 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not that this is at all significant, but these past few months of Twitter charades have erased any appetite for one day buying a Tesla, or any other Musk owned products. Luckily almost every automaker is coming out with their own EVs in the next couple years, so the market should be pretty competitive(in some ways it already is).

Seems petty, but I don't think it would be an uncommon response. A Tesla-owning friend has said a couple of times, "Elon Musk is the worst part of owning a Tesla."

I don't see why it would be petty to have concerns. Buying a Tesla makes one very dependant on the company for repairs, maintenance, software updates, etc. Given the new information I have learned recently about how Elon runs a business, that kind of dependancy is horrifying to me.

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

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Post by layer8 »

CaliforniaKarl wrote: post #229
layer8 wrote: post #224

Not looking good at the moment: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

Looking at the comments on that page, I think that spike is due to false reports.

Yeah, probably. It’s still fun to look at.

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

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Post by BadCookie »

jp0d wrote: post #225

Looks like the employee who was in charge of managing badge access was laid off and several staff have locked themselves out! https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593404311832338442

Twitter reality is so strange that almost anything is believable at this point. But this tweet is parody as it turns out: https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593407201913278464

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

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Post by colechristensen »

dilyevsky wrote: post #196
fotta wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The TLS cert expires on December 12.

There is absolutely no way in hell those aren’t autorenewed. I think the answer is “quite a long time” actually. Eventually disk/machine rot in DCs will take over but it can take many months or more

> There is absolutely no way in hell those aren’t autorenewed.

I’d take that bet.

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

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

kcb wrote: post #212
memish wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

George Hotz is interviewing there tomorrow. https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159339146698169139... For a certain kind of engineer, this version of Twitter is far more attractive than the previous one.

Why? What complex technical problem is there to solve at twitter at this point?

Oddly enough I don’t see this being discussed here. There hasn’t been growth in user counts that might bring large technical problems. Sure there’s going to be work needed, optimizations, new features or whatever. I think twitters problems are how to grow users and grow revenue, neither of which require technical solutions to get traction going.

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

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Post by kibwen »

r721 wrote: post #157

>Hundreds upon hundreds of Twitter employees have technically resigned but still have access to Twitter’s internal systems, with some speculating it is because the employees tasked with managing that access also resigned. https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593431420587761664

Same energy as the following article on the Twitter layoffs:

"Twitter hasn’t responded to requests for comment, likely because its communications staff has been included in the layoffs."

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/04/twitter-faces-a-class-acti...

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

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Post by colechristensen »

regpertom wrote: post #104
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?

It would surely be the flame war algorithm. Throwing some numbers out there, would this be too exaggerated? There have been 30 stories this past fortnight here with over 700 comments, mostly repeating the same love/hate musk battleground playing out across every other website. I think it’s a very interesting topic that’s unfolding but if dang wants to limit the frenzy from consuming here as well I certainly understan…

It’s interesting, but if the discussion isn’t interesting it doesn’t work here and is better culled.

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Post by gonzo41 »

pschuegr wrote: post #25

I hope that the wheels stay on sufficiently to get an idea of where EM wants to take Twitter and find out what kind of value it can bring. Having said that, he really made it obvious to me as an eng that the severance is the option I would be taking. Going "hardcore" on things can be fun, at the right time in your life, for the right reasons, with the right people. But somebody who takes over the company and accrues…

If you can believe what's on twitter. The whole payroll dept has resigned. So that's a setback.

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Post by kibwen »

barbazoo wrote: post #49
minimaxir wrote: post #32

Elon's first non-reply tweet since the news broke: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593415171149791232 > How do you make a small fortune in social media? > Start out with a large one.

I'm glad he's having fun /s

I hope all the employees whose lives he's glibly and unnecessarily upended while having the audacity to meme about it are having half as much fun!
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