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

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

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Post by madeofpalk »

andrewinardeer wrote: post #50
miki123211 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might be right when it comes to employees, but definitely not when it comes to users. There's a lot of people using X, and the vast, vast majority of them don't care much for Musk or actively dislike him. THe problem with X is that it is (and always was) sort of an echo chamber, there's no average X user, everybody sees very different content based on what they follow. The average HNer probably won't notice the h…

Isn't it only an echo chamber if you follow people with the same outlook and idealogy?

Echo chamber might not be the right word, but most people are/were on Twitter for a relatively narrow usecase. You joined Twitter for Fortnite content, or for web development, or for local stuff. It's why these groups were described as "media twitter" or "Black twitter" or 'NBA twitter"

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

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Post by andrewinardeer »

ThunderSizzle wrote: post #46
lrvick wrote: post #36

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It's weird to see people making spiteful comments about working for Musk.

I never see spiteful comments about people who work for British American Tobacco, BP or the Sacklers and these companies have, in my opinion, done far more damage to people, families and society in general.

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

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Post by mrweasel »

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.

The timeline is just crazy, but from a financial stance it makes sense to leave the more expensive location, if you already have the space else where (ignoring that they didn't pay their rent in San Francisco anyway).

I can understand why most wouldn't want to work at Twitter, sorry X, but if you're young with few obligations, I can see people doing it just for the experience of it, at least for a year or two. It has to be an insane ride to be on.

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

ThunderSizzle wrote: post #46
lrvick wrote: post #36

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> bans conservatives for "wrong think"

Which "wrong think" specifically got people banned? Because the vast majority of conservatives on the platform did not get banned, so I'm left wondering which exact people banned for what exact reasons you're thinking of. Trump was removed after the Jan 6 assault on the capital for provoking that violence and repeatedly lying to his followers about the election, which, weirdly, is quite different than for being a conservative.

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Post by phendrenad2 »

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.

Nah, this is VERY common for YC startups (which is the size of X I guess now)

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Post by loceng »

htrp wrote: post #56
zknill wrote: post #51

I don't know US commutes, or US geography too well. But it seems these two locations are about 45mins-1hr drive from each other. Where do folks actually live in those areas? Is it that a 30min drive north to San Fran becomes a 30min drive south to San Jose?

More like the easy commute you had in San Francisco on muni (the bus and subway network of San Francisco) becomes an annoying hour and a half-long commute on bart (The regional train system) with 2-3 transfers

Until Boring Company sets up multiple pickup points with Loop and Hyperloop tunnels; then will arguably be a max 20-30 minute ride.

The dynamics of travel will dramatically change multiple industries, save for if the status quo establishment and industrial complexes through regulatory capture prevent the rapid expansion of the paradigm shift in transport that Boring Company is rapidly developing; the technology of which Elon needs for his Mars colony, and so it'll happen and be developed as far as is determined to be necessary to maximize its utility and safety.

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Post by DevX101 »

anonzzzies wrote: post #32
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.

I cannot understand why anyone would work there, especially in office. but each their own.

I have him blocked but the CEO has 200 million followers. Even assuming 20% are real people, I'd imagine there's quite a few of those who'd love to work at his company.

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Post by camillomiller »

miki123211 wrote: post #40
lrvick wrote: post #36

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You might be right when it comes to employees, but definitely not when it comes to users. There's a lot of people using X, and the vast, vast majority of them don't care much for Musk or actively dislike him. THe problem with X is that it is (and always was) sort of an echo chamber, there's no average X user, everybody sees very different content based on what they follow. The average HNer probably won't notice the h…

Used to always be an echo chamber, that’s true. Yet the amount of alt-right, post-facts, no-vax, conspiracy theory shit I’m served on X despite me not following any of that has increased dramatically to the point of making X a cesspool of toxic content. Most of that is spewed or retweeted by Musk himself

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Post by DonHopkins »

Did San Jose agree to let them use their incredibly obnoxious blinking X logo eyesore?

‘SHUT IT OFF!!’ Disruptive new ‘X’ logo removed in San Francisco:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/31/twitter...

>Construction crews dismantled the giant, blinking ‘X’ logo after 24 complaints were logged with the city

San Jose is much more permissive than San Francisco when it comes to shitty public art:

San Jose’s Quetzalcoatl: The story behind much-ridiculed poop statue:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/23/san-joses-quetzalcoat...

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