It's not like Twitter can't hire other people if they really need to. Most probably they don't need to.
Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs
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#142I've always wanted to work for Musk, but never felt like I was skilled enough to work on spaceships or cars... But Twitter? I am thinking about applying, so go ahead and quit.
I could see working for an unstable egomaniac if it meant working on something big and meaningful like space travel or green energy or ending ICE cars. But to work on a glorified comment section? Hard pass.
if you look at it as a highly influential media platform with infinitely hard right-brain challenges around every corner ... many would be drawn to that.
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> on something truly innovative. like twitter? apparently elon's master plan is 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism?
> 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism What's wrong with 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism.
Absolutely nothing! Early blogging was great!
But doing what happened 20 years ago is hardly "truly innovative"
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About $2billion is owned by the Saudi prince with a penchant for murdering journalists. So... maybe?
It's obvious why the despots of Arabia and Russia—both pals with Musk—would prefer if Twitter disappeared. Unlike Mastodon, Twitter is capable of hosting a revolution. Putin and MBS and the rest of them know they can pwn or DoS any distributed, federated piece of crap, and they can't successfully do that to Twitter.
Hopefully the whale chose to be in the 'hardcore' crowd.
Re: Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs
#145Did Musk describe 'Breakthrough Twitter 2.0' in a separate message that hasn't been made public? "Stay at Twitter because we're moving to 80 hour work weeks and cancelling Christmas" can't be the argument by itself, right? It's got to be something like "Stay at Twitter because we're building exciting new project X, but we'll need 80 hour work weeks to pull this off..."
> It's got to be something like "Stay at Twitter because we're building exciting new project X, but we'll need 80 hour work weeks to pull this off..."
Not only that, but "... and they'll receive larger compensation and/or share of the company."
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I very much doubt that. Twitter must have had some bloat, but there's no way that 80% of the workforce was bloat. I'd be extremely surprised if Twitter(as in, the website/app, not the registered legal entity) still exists and works by the end of this year.
80% imo could so very easily be bloat. Features/services that are underutilized and haemorrhaging money don't need to be upkept, teams dedicated to curating content like twitter headlines and moderating content don't need to be there (at the scale it's currently at). Staffing for hospitality services at Twitter HQ and all the ancillary services that are unnecessary or under-utilized. As long as the servers are runnin…
Well ok sure, but then I can't imagine that the cuts Musk has done would accurately get rid of the bloat and not just a random selection of 80% of their employees. If you were one of the 20% of people doing actual work, why the hell would you stay if the only future promise is working longer hours and "being more hardcore"? Frankly I'd only agree to that if I was already doing nothing, because zero multiplied by anything is still zero. If you already are doing your job and the company asks you to work even more than before, then get your severance and go.
There no way in hell that this 80% of workforce was actual bloat.
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> on something truly innovative. like twitter? apparently elon's master plan is 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism?
> 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism What's wrong with 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism.
Nothing, but it seems unlikely to make money.
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#148Wild prediction: Twitter will continue to work as it did even after that ~80% workforce haircut. Make of that what you will.
100% agree. Once the dust settles my prediction is productivity will also soar.
Why would this happen? From the outside, it seems like Elon is absolutely decimating employee morale. See for example this thread from an engineer who has no beef with Elon and wants to see Twitter succeed, but still took the severance: https://twitter.com/peterclowes/status/1593458225533313025
Re: Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs
#149Wild prediction: Twitter will continue to work as it did even after that ~80% workforce haircut. Make of that what you will.
This is equivalent to saying "I've decided not to go to the mechanic anymore. And look, five days later, my car is totally fine!"
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For anyone not familiar, this movie is worth checking out: > Monty Brewster is a Minor League Baseball pitcher with the Hackensack Bulls. He and his best friend, Spike Nolan, the Bulls' catcher, are arrested after a post-game bar fight. A man offers to post their bail if they will come to New York City with him. At the Manhattan law office of Granville & Baxter, Brewster is told that his recently deceased great-uncle…
The man's living in New York City? Just buy a 2 bedroom apartment and call it a day.
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