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Post by pb7 »

wnevets wrote: post #107
pb7 wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter is a cesspool so ruining what it is is a positive thing. It cannot get worse from here. At worst, it dies; at best, it returns to its former glory circa 2012. Both sound like wins to me.

If what you say is true then paying $44 Billion sounds like a huge mistake.

It's a huge undertaking, that's for sure, which is probably why Musk wanted to back out. But $44B may seem like pocket change if it can get Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok level engagement and monetization. Twitter has been stagnant for a decade and the rot has set in.

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Post by sylens »

Imnimo wrote: post #62

I'm very unconvinced by Elon's $8 plan, but even to me "smothering it within weeks" seems wildly pessimistic. Even if his strategy doesn't work out, would things really come crashing down so quickly?

There are people in my extended network already noticing certain abuse of verified profiles, which will only get worse when anybody can pay for one

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Post by slantedview »

manmal wrote: post #111

OP makes it sound as if Twitter were a good platform for public discourse - it’s not. It’s a cesspool of indignation, racism, faux wokeness (white-knighting to feel superior over others) etc. If you don’t have a thick skin like Musk, you must self-censor yourself pretty heavily to avoid backlash and sometimes humiliation. Just liking a controversial tweet or following a problematic account can get you on the bad side…

> It’s a cesspool of indignation, racism, faux wokeness > I‘m not even sure I‘d consider Twitter worth saving.

Obviously the people who use it think it's worth using. Either way, the point isn't how bad Twitter is in your personal opinion, the point the author rightly makes is that it will get worse.

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Post by baryphonic »

seydor wrote: post #47

The deconstruction has begun. Twitter management is too rightwing to last. Soon the MSM will pick up the story and will suggest the right alternative to twitter that you can use.

Not sure where you got "rightwing" from.

David Sacks is to the right, Elon is center-left, and Jason Calcanis is a bigtime lib. For the past three days, rightwing Twitter has been screaming that Elon has "caved" and so on because Trump, Alex Jones and a few others haven't been unbanned. (Personally, I'd like to see the Babylon Bee brought back as a gesture of good faith, pun intended.)

How is the combination of those three "rightwing?"

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Post by ricardo81 »

Invictus0 wrote: post #110
ricardo81 wrote: post #94

What I get from this whole experience is big tech employees, likely on a wage x^2 their national average, are able to communicate more widely to the world about their disenfranchisement about being unemployed than others made unemployed who are not. Slightly ironic that they're employed by social networks. Said tongue in cheek because these are people with livelihoods and looking after families. There are others that…

Are you aware of how exponents work?

I believe so friend. An exponent is short form for exponential or an order of magnitude. Do you work in SV? You're free to ask what X is.

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Post by slantedview »

o_1 wrote: post #55

Ahh yes doomed to fail. When your speach isn't as protected because others are allowed to talk. Jack Dorsey literally bet the farm on the Elon could fix twitter. Twitter jobs seemed like the comfy lets push 1 feature a quarter. The amount of ex gov employees is also an astonishing statistic. Makes you wonder what this article is even talking about. The only thing I think elon really gets wrong is the "Work from Home"…

Yes, I'm sure the advertisers are fleeing because "others are allowed to talk". You've nailed it.

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Post by baryphonic »

Waterluvian wrote: post #63

"...to balance their own version of “free speech”" Nail on the head for what really bothers me. None of this (or the Trump/Freedom/Truth Social) opinions comprehend the fundamental concepts behind free speech. At best, they're ignorant, at worst, they've co-opted the concept to wield it against those whose speech they don't like.

What are the fundamental concepts of free speech that many of us don't understand?

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Post by deckard1 »

kenhwang wrote: post #56
theCrowing wrote: post #8

I believe Elon will learn the hard way that yes you can solve tech problems by throwing humans at them but you can't solve human problems by throwing tech at them.

Advertising is a human problem. I think Elon is already feeling the blowback from immediately misunderstanding it based on this tweet[1]. It's going to be interesting to see how he intends on making up that $5b/year. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880

> Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.

this reads like a Trump quote. People are free to use their speech to pressure advertisers into dropping Twitter. Or, rather, "voting" with their wallet.

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Post by summerlight »

DoneWithAllThat wrote: post #64

The claims in this article assume a lot. To pick just one, regarding stability/uptime: without knowing the distribution of layoffs by department, this may not just be incorrect, but the opposite might be true: if most SREs were retained, and engineers who know the systems well are still around, stability will likely improve as there will be fewer changes to the systems (usually the number one source of outages). If P…

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/03/musk-orders-twitter-to-cut-i...

Musk wants to save $1B from infrastructure costs, so the service quality will very likely degrade. The current business focus is money saving at all cost so I don't think SRE or whatever engineers are not very safe from layoffs.

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