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

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Post by mym1990 »

browningstreet wrote: post #427
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).

I got mine in April. So all this is probably my fault.

May your door gaps never be in alignment! Haha just kidding, at least you have a nice car now :)

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Post by agnosticmantis »

rot13xor wrote: post #551
mongol wrote: post #2

How will Musk's failure at Twitter affect market confidence in his other ventures?

It's counterintuitive but Tesla shareholders might want Twitter to fold quickly so Elon can fully focus on Tesla again.

And where is he supposed to pump Tesla stock?

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Post by tacker2000 »

jillesvangurp wrote: post #521
hristov wrote: post #77

This will be an interesting experiment in large scale code rot. How long do you think twitter.com will work with the code base frozen?

Here's a crazy idea: 1) get rid of most of the existing code base and simply re-implement and migrate existing content and remaining users to the new thing. 2) get some small team together that does this. 3) stop bleeding cash while that plan is being set into motion. 4) keep the existing code base limping along while that is being put into motion. I'm pretty sure that that's the plan Elon Musk is executing. It's sim…

Rewriting software from scratch is almost always a very bad idea and im sure even Elon knows this.

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ShredKazoo wrote: post #602

So here's my understanding of what happened, appreciating corrections: * Twitter was known for liberal corporate politics, most employees liberal * Purchased by center-right billionaire in the name of freedom of speech (modern liberals against freedom of speech) * Twitter employees amuse themselves by making billionaire's life difficult * Billionaire delivers ultimatum, many employees out * Unclear if sufficient know…

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Post by solarkraft »

ShredKazoo wrote: post #602

So here's my understanding of what happened, appreciating corrections: * Twitter was known for liberal corporate politics, most employees liberal * Purchased by center-right billionaire in the name of freedom of speech (modern liberals against freedom of speech) * Twitter employees amuse themselves by making billionaire's life difficult * Billionaire delivers ultimatum, many employees out * Unclear if sufficient know…

> Twitter employees amuse themselves by making billionaire's life difficult

Where did you get that from? He immediately started firing people, so when should they have done that?

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Post by mym1990 »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #208
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).

A former coworker in my FB feed sold his Tesla at a steep discount because he was mad at Elon Musk. This way of thinking about the world is incredible to me. But here we are.

Sounds like someone made off with a great deal! At the end of the day Tesla has some incredible minds working on the product, it is quite unfortunate that the face of that work has to get muddled with whatever Musk's latest circus venture is.

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Post by shp0ngle »

eugenethespleen wrote: post #591
shp0ngle wrote: post #569

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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Of course not. But nothing broke! So far.

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Post by ffggffggj »

ShredKazoo wrote: post #602

So here's my understanding of what happened, appreciating corrections: * Twitter was known for liberal corporate politics, most employees liberal * Purchased by center-right billionaire in the name of freedom of speech (modern liberals against freedom of speech) * Twitter employees amuse themselves by making billionaire's life difficult * Billionaire delivers ultimatum, many employees out * Unclear if sufficient know…

Out of curiosity, where do you tend to learn about this stuff? What sites/news sources do you use?

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Post by spuz »

ShredKazoo wrote: post #602

So here's my understanding of what happened, appreciating corrections: * Twitter was known for liberal corporate politics, most employees liberal * Purchased by center-right billionaire in the name of freedom of speech (modern liberals against freedom of speech) * Twitter employees amuse themselves by making billionaire's life difficult * Billionaire delivers ultimatum, many employees out * Unclear if sufficient know…

You're missing a significant bullet point which is that in-between Musk arriving and Twitter employees resigning, Musk fired 50% of the workforce. That seems like a much more significant factor in whether systems can be maintained.
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