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

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Post by ajross »

7e wrote: post #228
areoform wrote: post #173

I am chalking this up to Russia syndrome. Personality types driven to do great things aren't easily satisfied. Most are perpetually dissatisfied & they need to raise the stakes. They win the war of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th coalitions. For the first time, they find that things are going fine. All they have to do is nothing. Pull back and consolidate. Maybe refine some things, tinker a bit. But it's not enough. It wi…

But Elon was fired from PayPal. He failed at Boring Company and Neuralink. He faked his educational credentials and was in the country illegally. He failed at Full Self Driving, the Roadster is nowhere to be seen, the Cybertruck is MIA and the Tesla Semi is years late. 95% of predictions he has made has failed to pass. As far as I can tell, he lucked out during the .com boom, then invested in Tesla and almost drove i…

> He failed at Full Self Driving, the Roadster is nowhere to be seen, the Cybertruck is MIA and the Tesla Semi is years late

No, stop it, that's ridiculous. Tesla is an immensely successful company. It just is.

Multiple things can be true: Musk can be a chaos bully driving Twitter into the ground and the CEO of the most successful heavy industry startup since the end of the second world war. I'm no doubt as horrified as you are at what is happening at the bird site, but I still know my car is great.

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

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Post by klyrs »

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.

Good word, it gets better from there:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593455727611215872

> And … we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol

> Let that sink in …

He literally cannot distinguish between good and bad attention. He still thinks he's winning this.

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

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Post by Dudelander »

threeseed wrote: post #269
hintymad wrote: post #175

The management is worried about internal sabotage? My Twitter friends said Twitter has been having large exodus. CSL(core systems lib?) team, blobstore team, graph platform team, and revenue forecasting team seemed have all quit. I'm not sure how robust and autonomous Twitter's infra is. Hopefully Twitter will continue to function.

There's reports the NOC and SREs have all left as well. Surely an outage is right around the corner.

World Cup starts on the 20th. We'll see what happens then.

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

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Post by dehrmann »

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.

He can't. Competent people (mostly) don't want to work for him, especially after this fiasco.

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

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Post by wesleywt »

FormerBandmate wrote: post #304
7e wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But Elon was fired from PayPal. He failed at Boring Company and Neuralink. He faked his educational credentials and was in the country illegally. He failed at Full Self Driving, the Roadster is nowhere to be seen, the Cybertruck is MIA and the Tesla Semi is years late. 95% of predictions he has made has failed to pass. As far as I can tell, he lucked out during the .com boom, then invested in Tesla and almost drove i…

Tesla was a dream before he came in. It’s now the biggest car company in the world by market cap. Give the man credit where it’s due

The price of Tesla is artificially inflated due to easy money. That BWM I7 looks like a work of art compared to a Tesla.

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

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Post by iudqnolq »

A telling exchange

> What do people mean when they say Twitter is gonna shut down? Doesn't it kinda run itself? I feel like engineers are for changes not to just keep it running? I also don't know anything. Hey @elonmusk wanna do a Twitter space with me? Im confused. - Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente

> The best people are staying, so I'm not super worried - Elon Musk @elonmusk

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

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Post by JohnTHaller »

makeitdouble wrote: post #350
JohnTHaller wrote: post #264

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

Wasn't the PR department fired a while ago now ? TheVerge was already reporting on getting no PR access after the team was fired, like one or two weeks ago (damn that feels like a long time in this timeline...)

Yeah, this was a quote from the TechCrunch story from earlier in this mess.

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

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Post by moralestapia »

7e wrote: post #228
areoform wrote: post #173

I am chalking this up to Russia syndrome. Personality types driven to do great things aren't easily satisfied. Most are perpetually dissatisfied & they need to raise the stakes. They win the war of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th coalitions. For the first time, they find that things are going fine. All they have to do is nothing. Pull back and consolidate. Maybe refine some things, tinker a bit. But it's not enough. It wi…

But Elon was fired from PayPal. He failed at Boring Company and Neuralink. He faked his educational credentials and was in the country illegally. He failed at Full Self Driving, the Roadster is nowhere to be seen, the Cybertruck is MIA and the Tesla Semi is years late. 95% of predictions he has made has failed to pass. As far as I can tell, he lucked out during the .com boom, then invested in Tesla and almost drove i…

>He failed at Boring Company and Neuralink.

How?

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

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Post by MBCook »

MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #127
MBCook wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I told someone earlier it’s going down and not coming back up by Monday night.

I forgot about the World Cup.

I don’t know what to say anymore.

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

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Post by threeseed »

Dudelander wrote: post #393
threeseed wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's reports the NOC and SREs have all left as well. Surely an outage is right around the corner.

World Cup starts on the 20th. We'll see what happens then.

Don't even need to wait until then. Apparently the entire payroll team has quit.

Surely more resignations are coming.

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