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Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended
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> Going "hardcore" on things can be fun, at the right time in your life, for the right reasons, with the right people. I don't see what it is about the Twitter product that would require going "hardcore". It's a lose-lose situation; I don't think Twitter's problems would be solved by engineering harder; and you will spend 80 hrs/wk where you can end up fired because people aren't as deterministic as cars. It's a comp…
> What's most surprising it seems he has no thesis for the company or how it can be made better or what was so terrible about it. Have you ever used Twitter? To someone who has used Twitter in the past weeks this reads like deliberate trolling. Twitter was absolutely terrible to use and the pace of noticible change within days/weeks under Elon is mind blowing to me. He's clearly going fast with things like getting ri…
> He's clearly going fast with things like getting rid of (shadow-)banning for no apparent reason
(He thinks this is happening because he reads his replies and a lot of cranks convinced they're shadow banned are @ing him.)
> getting rid of fake scammer accounts who deliberately impersonated famous people and companies to scam people
(He made it worse and the big advertisers canceled their campaigns after their stock falling due to fake announcements.)
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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.
He's probably going to buy up a load of dogecoin then pump it by saying it'll be accepted on the site, and use the profits to keep the lights on for a while
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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…
> 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 The infra is just too clever for anybody to grok in a million years. These clowns probably don't even have fedoras, no way they'll ever figure it out.
Ever been on a team where a key person responsible for a piece of infra leaves suddenly, and next incident takes hours to resolve instead of minutes as everyone is running around trying to understand what the code is doing? It will be like that but way worse.
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#535The 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.
It definitely feels like internal sabotage at the moment...
How is abandoning a mad boss sabotage? Those people are my new heroes. They clearly send a message to anyone in the industry trying to emulate musk, that if you mess around you find out.
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#536If 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.
Facebook just laid off more than an entire Twitter’s worth of employees.
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#538"Twitter hasn’t responded to requests for comment, likely because its communications staff has been included in the layoffs." - TechCrunch
I always appreciate their random speculation, thanks TechCrunch!
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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…
To be honest, this sounds like bloody red meat to any black or grey hats out there interested in having some infiltration fun. Why not show up at Twitter’s hq with a mouth full of smart sounding engineering babble and a backpack full of spycraft toys?
Yep, Elon's paranoid about his current employees sabotaging him, but he should be just as paranoid about new job applicants looking to gain access and capitalize on the internal chaos.
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It definitely feels like internal sabotage at the moment...
How is abandoning a mad boss sabotage? Those people are my new heroes. They clearly send a message to anyone in the industry trying to emulate musk, that if you mess around you find out.
I read it as Musk sabotaging it himself.