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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote. Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.

What does this have to do with the topic at hand?

GP is making the argument Reddit receives free labor that twitter has to pay for

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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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

Is this a joke? You are struggling to think how the richest man on the world can afford to pay interest on a loan? He has assets worth $150B

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote. Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.

What does this have to do with the topic at hand?

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Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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This is pretty unsurprising, they're not really going to raise any serious money from this (what do we reckon? 1FTE Salary at most?) but they've got office space for 7.5k people and less than 3k less. Musk keeps saying "If you code come to the 10th floor" - which basically implies that their entire team of engineers fit onto 1 floor of the building and that there a load of empty floors now that don't need kitchens or…

Wouldn't it just be smarter to sublet the space and fill up the building. Rather than having empty floors on a building you barely use.

Sublet to who? Downtown SF office space doesn’t have a lot of takers right now.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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

Reddit has way more than 700 now. I worked there until 2019 and they had ~600 when I left.

That being said though, I would guess the employee count is still around ~2000 or less.

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

Reddit has an army of unpaid moderators. Not to mention the Reddit users who upvote and downvote. Also, politicians and other important public figures don't use Reddit like they use Twitter.

Anyone know why those unpaid mods do what they do? It's like a cult.

Re: Twitter Office Supply Auction

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This is pretty unsurprising, they're not really going to raise any serious money from this (what do we reckon? 1FTE Salary at most?) but they've got office space for 7.5k people and less than 3k less. Musk keeps saying "If you code come to the 10th floor" - which basically implies that their entire team of engineers fit onto 1 floor of the building and that there a load of empty floors now that don't need kitchens or…

Better than trashing it, I guess.
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