Are people who still want to argue that Elon isn't destroying Twitter?
Yeah.
It all looks pretty crazy. It seems like he's going to fail.
But he might succeed. You never know.
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#472Elon'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.
Highest DAU for xx% less overhead is literally winning. That's why people have lost their minds. They want him to fail so badly and they're getting the feeling that he won't, so cognitive dissonance is through the roof.
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#473Earlier quoted context omitted.
I didn't know HN was biased like this, found out about this tweet on Reddit and was wondering why it wasn't front page here.
That 'bias' is part of the reason it has worked so well over the years.
I don't think anyone would consider hiding information about one of the largest and most well known tech platforms in the world to be an example of beneficial bias.
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#474Elon'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.
A top reply [0] that Elon replied to: > Elon, there's a bunch of us in SV who will come up tonight to help on the infra side to keep the site up. > If you need help just ask. As if you could just drive over to the Twitter HQ, grok how all the infrastructure works, and make/provide meaningful contributions/tweaks/upkeep.... tonight That's either a level of delusion that I can't imagine and/or someone who has no idea w…
I think Twitter is becoming a place for high risk reward employment. Maybe it crashes and burns, maybe you quickly ascend the ranks in the turmoil and reach a point in your career that would have taken substantially longer in a more traditional route. If Twitter does something like what Tesla did, you might even get filthy rich. Or, hey, maybe it doesn't work out and you get nothing but an interesting story, Twitter collapses or Elon fires you or whatever.
Many companies say that they are like a startup, but I can see Twitter going back to that style. Far fewer people, far faster shipping, less thinking things through, etc. The bluechecks for anyone in a week and undoing it seems very startup like to me. Is that good? Probably not - but it is interesting, and, like I said, high risk high reward.
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#475Elon'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.
A top reply [0] that Elon replied to: > Elon, there's a bunch of us in SV who will come up tonight to help on the infra side to keep the site up. > If you need help just ask. As if you could just drive over to the Twitter HQ, grok how all the infrastructure works, and make/provide meaningful contributions/tweaks/upkeep.... tonight That's either a level of delusion that I can't imagine and/or someone who has no idea w…
Later in that thread he says he's currently in sales, but used to be a "self-taught infrastructure engineer". If you look at the site that he links from his Twitter profile you'll see a half-finished site made with a site-generator. Just the type of talent you want running the infra for the company you just paid $44B for.
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#476Earlier quoted context omitted.
> somebody who takes over the company and accrues so much social debt so quickly What is 'social debt' and how is it (objectively) measured?
Elon did two things: - he angered elites by changing the blue mark from status symbol to something else. - he angered the techies by firing people. These people have so much clout that doing sentiment analysis on his name before and after the twitter fiasco would probably have very interesting results.
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#477If I was Facebook or any other competitor, I would swoop in and poach everyone that is actually still there, mostly people afraid to leave because of visa issues etc.
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#478I need everyone to think very carefully about the attack surface, and how long it has been left unprotected, and how long it will be unprotected. Now, I need you to consider the following proposition: that eyeballs are to codebases, dashboards and telemetry as floss is to tooth and gum. Then, I need you to go to your phone and uninstall Twitter. Also, when you do visit it, visit it in Firefox. Use a Firefox Container…
After scrolling this thread for way too long. I can say this is the top underated comment.
I'm not sure I know for certain what it's trying to say.
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#479Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aside: there is no "technically resigned" here, if they're referring to Musk's loyalty-pledge deadline. Those employees have been terminated -- and are entitled to unemployment and wrongful termination protections.
I wonder if this legally really is the case. Twitter seems to have asked "Do you still want to work here", giving an option to affirm. They didn't say "you have to go", they said "you may go if you do not like the new direction of the company, please tell us which one it is". I'd be rather careful with that, and not just proclaim these people were terminated. I see a rather good chance court could rule very different…
There is very, very little chance a California court would rule the way you imagine.
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#480>In addition to the payroll team being gone, Twitter's entire US tax team is gone, I'm told, along with its financial reporting team. Not great. https://twitter.com/HaysKali/status/1593449877094047744
No payroll, tax, compliance, legal, finance? Just needs some crypto sprinkled in and he can run FTX 2.0!
You jest, but I would not be surprised if he launched a few twitcoins.