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What’s the consequence for employees? People with 3 years left of vesting RSUs. Will those keep vesting somehow? Or they’ll get an upfront payout? And what’s my incentive to work for an established private company with no stock growth prospect? I guess Twitter will have to pay 500k senior eng. salaries in cash instead of stock?
- Delete it
Stockholders are holding it because they believe it's worth more than its current price. And Elon's offer is only slightly more than the current price. The board members do not hold much stock at all. It seems this might fail at shareholder vote.
What’s the consequence for employees? People with 3 years left of vesting RSUs. Will those keep vesting somehow? Or they’ll get an upfront payout? And what’s my incentive to work for an established private company with no stock growth prospect? I guess Twitter will have to pay 500k senior eng. salaries in cash instead of stock?
Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
This could be dangerous for democracy. The worlds richest man can influence whether a politician is de-platformed or re-instated to Twitter whilst legally protected in such decision making by section 230. We have seen him act petty when offense is taken [0]. We have seen him be quite opinionated on tax proposals [1]. Is no one else concerned by this? It seems a more powerful control of the narrative and politics than…
Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
Twitter could just switch to ActivityPub [0] and everything will be immediately improved for the users. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub
Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…
Or more realistically, the first thing he’ll do is re-platform all those that got de-platformed. Trump 2024, here we go.