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I would obviously not want to work in such an environment, but. Given that he fired so many people, yet the site is working unchanged and works exactly the same as before, maybe he’s not that crazy? I can log in to the website and see no difference; nothing is obviously broken. Maybe he’s right and most people were doing nothing? I don’t know.
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Yeah given paulg's tweets I'm wondering if our free speech absolutist view as a website, actually holds here.
Turn showdead in and tell me this website is a “free speech absolutist zone”. I mean, subjectively most of those accounts deserve to be dead, but don’t pretend this is something it isn’t.
How long before the exiting engineers realize they can just walk across the street and start their own better, more “hard core” Twitter?
It takes more than just engineering talent to start a successful Twitter competitor at this stage. Platform stickiness is a real thing.
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According to the tweet, the buildings were closed due to prevent employees from sabotaging things. None of us know whether the tweet is accurate, though.
Everyone has been working from home. What could they possibly sabotage in the office that they couldn't from home, the coffee maker?
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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…
At the end of the day, most software eats the same stuff and the levers are often rudimentary and grokable, especially if you focus on a specific area. I don't think someone could meaningfully implement a new feature in a night, but could they tackle a problem in a given service and identity a rough remediation to save the next 72h? Yes, this stuff happens all the time. I've jumped on outages like this and figured it…
Probably a good time to download an archive of your Twitter data: https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data
I've been waiting for an archive of my data for 3 days now. And my activity on Twitter is probably bottom 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…
> somebody who takes over the company and accrues so much social debt so quickly What is 'social debt' and how is it (objectively) measured?
ESG score (Environmental, Social and Governance), it isn't measured objectively but used as a tool for political control and for parading by activists.
If 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.
…why? Twitter much like Reddit has never been profitable. It’s a sinking ship.