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Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay

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Post by smsm42 »

aqme28 wrote: post #346
anotherhue wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

during one visit to those Zendesk offices an urgent slack message (verily) was sent out advising everyone to get away from the windows, as there was shooting outside. About 10 minutes later also via Slack the CEO announced not to worry it was simply one drug dealer shooting another drug dealer in the back. Everyone could return to their desks. I never understood why the company would put its employees in danger until…

My first week working in a finance firm in midtown Manhattan there was a significant shooting. These things happen everywhere (edit: in the US) unfortunately. I'm not convinced that a more suburban location that forces people to drive would actually be any safer.

If by "everywhere" you mean "major megapolises with crime problems", then yes, everywhere. Otherwise, no, not everywhere, and yes, in a suburban location a chance of a shooting happening under your very office window is extremely low. Living/working in a megapolis has its advantages, but let's not paint over its downsides also. Criminals want the same advantages too.

Re: Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay

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Post by SeenNotHeard »

slowmovintarget wrote: post #274
bcx wrote: post #130

It’s been a while since we had sf offices, but back when we did sf had a pretty aggressive additional payroll tax and gross receipts taxes. I’d imagine this is likely a factor in the decision. I know for a while they were waiving some of these taxes for companies who set up offices in certain parts of the city. E.g. zendesk got a big tax break for its market street location near the tenderloin. As for commutes, I’d b…

Didn't Elon also give a politically motivated reason for moving his HQs out of California? [1] [1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...

It was widely reported that Musk was moving X and SpaceX's offices to Texas due to a new LGBTQ+ reporting law for schools, which in turn was heralded as Yet Further Proof of California's demise.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/07/16/elon-musk-spacex-headquar...

Now we're hearing that he's moving X's offices to the South Bay Area. Go figure.

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Post by miki123211 »

1oooqooq wrote: post #135
danielscrubs wrote: post #121

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Im there for finance news and compiler tech. It’s the only platform where I don’t feel like I am force fed Hollywood drama. You just have to follow people you respect instead of people you find amusing.

even for niche topics i only recall "influencers" left there by the time i left. i guess it's the new Facebook, social network for old people who will not open a different app ever, for some small groups?

If you look at "latest" and not "recommended", you don't see those, and if you do, you can just unfollow.

Re: Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay

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Post by smsm42 »

caycep wrote: post #331
sangnoir wrote: post #293

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> I never understood why the company would put its employees in danger... Like forcing them to drive to the office 2-5 days each week when they could continue working from home?

vs "I never understood why the company would not pay taxes to improve the environment around its chosen home"?

I don't think SF is an example of the place where the link between paying a lot of taxes and get the environment around improved is as obvious as you seem to imply.

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Post by wonderwonder »

nuz wrote: post #128
jsheard wrote: post #116

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They've already cut about 80% of their workforce since Elon took over, I'm not sure how much more attrition they can take. Sure the site still mostly works in the technical sense, but the way it works now has led to a significant decline in revenue and active users.

They've cut out things like viewing who liked a tweet etc (for cost savings I suspect) so the site is probably dirt cheap. Can't imagine ads don't pay for the cost of running servers at this point, and a headcount reduction might bring it to profitability.

I actually don't think the removal of like views has anything to do with revenue.

I think they actually did this so users are free to like whatever they want without having to worry about getting vilified for liking something that is not supported by the majority. For example liking something political or anti whatever.

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Post by ESTheComposer »

janalsncm wrote: post #371

Had a recruiter call with Twitter a few months ago. Mandatory in office 5 days per week. Among other things, an hour commute both ways to work was not acceptable. Maybe they will have better luck in Santa Clara. I don’t buy any of the flamebait reasons for leaving SF. Reason 1 is money and reason 2 is talent pool.

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Post by scheme271 »

greenthrow wrote: post #34
fabian2k wrote: post #31

Doing this on a few weeks notice seems rather insane to me. Unless you have very good remote work options this is very disruptive for employees.

Folks with H1B visas have an undue burden on any attempt to move jobs. Also interviewing is hell for many tech folks who are extremely introverted (myself included in that last part.)

Very true although anyone on a H1B may have to file a bunch of paperwork since their job location changed. Although I suppose the paperwork is going to be more something that twitter's attorneys need to do.

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Post by TigeriusKirk »

dang wrote: post #366
robxorb wrote: post #363

Why is the title of the HN post changed to read "Twitter", when the linked article title states correctly "X", and is otherwise identical?

I did that because I don't know anyone who doesn't still call it Twitter.

It's pretty common in my circles to call it X now. Things change, most people adapt.

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Post by ImJamal »

acdha wrote: post #388
ImJamal wrote: post #270

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They did not ban Trump for "continued calls for violence and election interference". Look at the two Tweets they used as a justification of his ban [1] > The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!! And > To all of those who have asked, I…

Again, if those were all he’d posted and his followers hadn’t just responded to his past calls with a violent assault on the election process, he’d never have gotten banned. As you can see by reading the page you linked, this decision was made with that context in mind after years of crossing the boundaries, and they did not want their corporate resources potentially being used for additional political violence.

The problem is their claim was those two tweets were violent. If they just said they banned him for behavior outside of Twitter they wouldn't be lying. Instead they claimed two tweets that have literally nothing to do with violence are violent.
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