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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by rtpg »

tkiolp4 wrote: post #23
bhouston wrote: post #9

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If you have less offices you have less needs for corporate branding. If you were to consolidate all branding into the remaining offices it would take up too much space. You can not be sentimental about this stuff.

If there is only one thing business and companies should be sentimental about is about their origins. No room for sentimental stuff when doing anything else. Twitter is employing humans and the end of the day, not robots.

I imagine there are still plenty of statues all over.

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Post by neilv »

LightG wrote: post #14
kzrdude wrote: post #4

Selling off a twitter bird statue makes it look bad. What a signal that the company doesn't believe in itself anymore.

I heard they need the space to replace it with this: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2022/12/02/elon-goat... (ultimate ... infinite ... cringe)

That's strangely befitting.

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Post by Beldin »

dag11 wrote: post #26
sethd wrote: post #20

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It's a pretty unique first name, and I feel like people (online, and IRL) refer to him by either first or last name 50% of the time. Sergey Brin also comes to mind. Unique name, people don't really say "Brin". Just Sergey, given the correct context. I don't think this is a case of people thinking they're "best buds with the man," like when people rarely referred to Jobs as "Steve."

"Sergey" is a rather common name - if I were spewing forth Slavic/Russian names off the cuff, it'd be in the first 5 probably (with Dmitri and Piotr).

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Post by willsmith72 »

sethd wrote: post #20
ShivShankaran wrote: post #5

I am struggling to think how Elon is going to pay the interest on the loan he took for buying Twitter. On other hand his collateral , tsla stock, is crashing. He got carried away to make this purchase during the rising tide of covid bull market. I suspect this is going to severely affect both tsla and twtr

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Lebron, Oprah, Elvis. Not about being best buds, but definitely a pretty small group of people

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Post by marbu »

bhouston wrote: post #9
kzrdude wrote: post #4

Selling off a twitter bird statue makes it look bad. What a signal that the company doesn't believe in itself anymore.

If you have less offices you have less needs for corporate branding. If you were to consolidate all branding into the remaining offices it would take up too much space. You can not be sentimental about this stuff.

Right, but when it comes to their branding stuff, I would expect the company to either store it (if they have enough space somewhere) or move it straight to trash. Selling their corporate logos for 25 USD looks like they are being liquidated and closing the shop. I can't understand how someone even come up with such idea ...

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by staindk »

QuadmasterXLII wrote: post #29

A useful comparison for discussion:reddit has 700 employees and twitter had 7000.

Yeah I think general consensus is that twitter was bloated and I'm guessing a lot of people were skimming by not doing much (or stuck doing things that amounted to not much).

Elon's methodology isn't the best way forward though. Ugh idk.

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Post by jimnotgym »

dag11 wrote: post #26
sethd wrote: post #20

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It's a pretty unique first name, and I feel like people (online, and IRL) refer to him by either first or last name 50% of the time. Sergey Brin also comes to mind. Unique name, people don't really say "Brin". Just Sergey, given the correct context. I don't think this is a case of people thinking they're "best buds with the man," like when people rarely referred to Jobs as "Steve."

Boris Johnson is another example. He made Boris almost a brand.

I hear a lot of people say 'Rishi' now, and it seems to be a bit of a joke at Rishi Sunaks expense, to be derogatory about the PM, rather than branding.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Post by dag11 »

Beldin wrote: post #33
dag11 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a pretty unique first name, and I feel like people (online, and IRL) refer to him by either first or last name 50% of the time. Sergey Brin also comes to mind. Unique name, people don't really say "Brin". Just Sergey, given the correct context. I don't think this is a case of people thinking they're "best buds with the man," like when people rarely referred to Jobs as "Steve."

"Sergey" is a rather common name - if I were spewing forth Slavic/Russian names off the cuff, it'd be in the first 5 probably (with Dmitri and Piotr).

I really meant within the right context, which would be western folks in tech talking about notable people in the industry, and likely have mentioned Google at some point in the conversation. Sergey isn't a common name among the notable in western tech.

Elon is even more unique of a name to western ears, so I was just pointing out that another (yet less unique) name also gets the first-name treatment.

For more examples, I'd say Satya Nadella also gets 50/50 first/last name treatment in casual conversation.

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