Anyone know if the Dublin office is selling anything?
Twitter Office Supply Auction
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#152I feel like the more we learn about Twitter the more it’s just a tiny company that tried to look like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple. It’s really just a trash company that had a lot of junk and a lot of people doing nothing with overly inflated salaries.
Why is twitter trash? Problems are pointed out with all those four large companies way more often than with twitter. Maybe smaller companies with smaller scope are in fact more productive, effective and less problematic rather than the opposite.
>Why is twitter trash?
We can prove it objectively with how history played out.
What’s the biggest, most influential and main social network of the next 10 years that every legacy network is desperately trying to imitate?
Well Twitter owned the concept a decade ago and didn’t think it was worth taking any further so now someone else reaped the benefits.
“Trash” isn’t a strong enough word.
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#153Earlier 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.
Anyone know why those unpaid mods do what they do? It's like a cult.
A slight tangent but...
Post some sort of "anti-musk" or "anti-apple" or whatever is popular at the moment and watch everyone rush in to come to that person/organizations defence.
I always find it astonishing when people do this and was always curious as to the motives as well.
I drive a Hyundai and have an iPhone, if someone were to say something critical of either I don't mind. I don't work for either company, i don't hold any of their stock, no family works there..
Yet there are always rabid fans and i suspect Reddit and such has its "fans" who feel compelled to moderate. Probably because they feel a sense of "community" or belonging to some company and are willing to do unpaid work, the same as people will post "pro apple" comments when someone makes a critical statement.
Look at the post the other day on the electric truck comments and others are writing that this is "a coordinated attack on Musk"??
People do odd things at times.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's wild. It's untaxed comp that minimizes the time employees need to spend thinking about food during the day. He's mandating employees come back to the office for long hours, but now they need to (at least) order and receive their own lunches and dinners? If he's trying to retain some sort of high-intensity hardcore ninja startup bullshit, I would think free food would be the last thing cut. Or is he planning fo…
> (at least) order and receive their own lunches and dinners? "At least" would be to make some sandwiches and put them in a lunch box like millions of people do every day.
My experience working in such places has been that most people bring better food. Soup, pasta, rice and beans, etc. I'm sure some people bring sandwiches and eat at their desk, but most people prefer hot food.
Food prep at home is cheap, but has a labor cost in time. Are employees really going to do their own food prep in the middle of 80 hour weeks?
When I prepped my own meals I was much more inclined to go home at 5pm sharp.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Twitter didn't sell out of desperation, the offer was way above what the company was worth. A court was on the cusp of forcing the deal through when it finally moved forward. So think of it as a $15,000 couch being liquidated.
Tell that to all my colleagues who don’t have a job anymore.
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Musk said publicly the free food was rarely eaten. They had more people cooking breakfast than eating it. That’s probably exaggeration, but it’s probably true that it had little utilization.
Didn't the person in charge of the free food publicly disagree with Musk?
Yes, and then he dropped the real numbers about utilization.
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#158A useful comparison for discussion:reddit has 700 employees and twitter had 7000.
Reddit is a total clusterfuck technologically though, no?
The people seem to say despite the not new anymore slow & often-failing frontend. The old frontend is down regularly. Not sure why they don't drop it completely if the care so little about it's uptime.
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#159I feel like the more we learn about Twitter the more it’s just a tiny company that tried to look like Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple. It’s really just a trash company that had a lot of junk and a lot of people doing nothing with overly inflated salaries.
Why is twitter trash? Problems are pointed out with all those four large companies way more often than with twitter. Maybe smaller companies with smaller scope are in fact more productive, effective and less problematic rather than the opposite.
Because it was over valued and produced nothing. 7000 employees. Moderation didn’t actually enforce rules. Nothing changed in 10 years. 0 attempt at fixing issues. Killed off vine with no attempt to make it better.
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#160Surprising the system appears to run efficiently without the extra 7000 employees.
Elon didn't fire _everyone_ so the delta is less than 7k. Still, has it been long enough to evaluate that? The missing employees might be noticeable once there is some big issue with the infra and all the greybeards are gone, or once there is some big EU investigation and all the compliance experts are gone, etc.
Here's the Twitter Death Watch grafana that's tracking API response times, etc https://deadbird.singlepane.io/