I think one of the biggest mistakes this dummy made is confusing Twitter for something significantly more than a source of entertainment, which I think is largely the role it plays for a lot of people, its various sub utilities aside. If Twitter stopped today the world would not fundamentally change the way the end of Google or Amazon would change things. Imo, the end of Twitter would be more like the end of a modestly successful sitcom. No one would pay a penny, let alone a monthly fee, for the return of Two and a Half Men.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
Hey not so fast..
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
would be hilarious if Elon musk personally relaunched Two and a half Men.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link
well, the way he's currently windmill jousting, that could happen
Publicly allege (on twitter) he doesn't have the cojones to bring back 2 1/2 Men and I bet he'd take the bait
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 21:07 (one year ago) link
"Go to Mars? What about Everybody Loves Raymond, man!"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
All these kids with Friends t-shirts show there is a market for 90s sitcoms, he should relaunch them all. A lot cheaper than buying Twitter.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
the thing that would really pique interest in twitter is if he created accounts for the characters from two and a half men!
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
#winning
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
The Elon thing is like watching someone who wished to become a genie (because nobody is more powerful than a genie) realize what being a genie entails. pic.twitter.com/2uSqW1gQXZ— Robinson Meyer (@robinsonmeyer) November 2, 2022
― borrowed Ostalgia for the unremembered 80s (MoominTrollin), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 22:40 (one year ago) link
something something genitals
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
so it's like watching the end of the famous movie Aladin?
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 23:22 (one year ago) link
Genie entrails
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 2 November 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
firing half a company in one day, there must be some reason why no one ever does that
Here it is: Elon Musk is planning to absolutely gut Twitter.~3,700 people will lose their jobs on Friday, which is about half the company. Musk also plans to end Twitter’s remote work policy, forcing employees back to the office. https://t.co/tMcilbzUQg— Paris Marx (@parismarx) November 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link
Screenshots from a Slack channel since made private put the number at 3,738 — we assume full-time Twitter employees. A ‘RIF review’ meeting with Musk and his team is scheduled to be taking place right now. https://t.co/KokN5sul3A— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 3, 2022
This roughly covers the interest payment
Apparently they accidentally posted the list in a public slack channel then made the channel private. None of the people managing this have ever had a real job.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
jfc
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 00:38 (one year ago) link
prob fire the people actually keeping the site up cause he had tesla guys out there counting commits
“Layoff lists were drawn up and ranked based on individuals’ contributions to Twitter’s code during their time at the company … The assessment was made by both Tesla personnel and Twitter managers.” https://t.co/tMcilbzUQg— Paris Marx (@parismarx) November 3, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 00:39 (one year ago) link
How confident is everyone in Tesla personnel and Twitter managers and their ability to identify who is keeping the website running?
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
You have to imagine that many capable people are running for the Apple, Microsoft, and Google lifeboats is they haven’t left already. Meta on-boarded a handful of E6s this week. All from Twitter and during a “hiring freeze.”
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:05 (one year ago) link
Everyone also needs to be quiet about the interest. It’s a non-issue. Even the most chaste of the lenders have said as much in the past two days. It’s not a pressing issue. Musk doesn’t care about it and he shouldn’t. He’s just this dumb.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:08 (one year ago) link
Apparently remote people (which is most people) are going to get fired for cause to avoid severance.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
Everyone also needs to be quiet about the interest.
My point was order of magnitude this saves real money (in the short term), while charging a small number of people $8 does not.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
Shitcanning trust and safety before pivoting to paywalled videos also seems like it might be a bad idea.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
― 龜, Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
My bad! That comment wasn’t directed at you! It was more of a comment about everyone on Twitter or Hacker News talking about this as being an important issue rather than the obvious important issue: Musk is a moron.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
issue isn’t the lenders, it’s about not throwing good money after bad!and clearly he does care about it, given the layoffs!
and clearly he does care about it, given the layoffs!
Welcome to Silicon Valley. You over-hire but reminiscence about the “startup days” and will always, without fail, throw good money after bad.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
Xp got you.
Do you know if the Facebook joiners on ml infra or modelling? Or are they regular swes?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
no, you throw fidelity money after a16z money in silicon valley. if twitter can’t pay its interest with the cash generated from its operations, sooner or later elon will have to contribute even more of his own money to avoid defaulting on the debt. elon is not very liquid - all his wealth is in tesla stock. he’d rather not have to sell even more tesla stock while the price is at a recent low. that’s what i mean about throwing good money after bad! xp
― 龜, Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:24 (one year ago) link
I feel like Elon is giving us a good real world sense of what Galt's Gulch would be like. Nobody would actually know how to do a single useful thing.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:25 (one year ago) link
hey appeared to be infrastructure people. Because I’m a creep I looked at one’s Twitter profile and his posts read like he hasn’t quit Twitter! I hope this is a “quiet quitting” situation. If so, I applaud him.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
Hero.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 01:30 (one year ago) link
Reply to your dms btw
Advertisers should support:— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 2, 2022
normal
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 November 2022 02:08 (one year ago) link
SCOOP: L’Oréal has become the latest big company to suspend advertising spending on Twitter, as major brands grow nervous of Musk's chaotic rein Others are quietly reviewing their exposure. “There’s some quiet quitting going on,” said one ad executivehttps://t.co/o8hD5uAcnw— Hannah Murphy (@MsHannahMurphy) November 2, 2022
they're gonna hemorrhage advertisers, meanwhile the CEO is trying to feud with AOC on his own platform
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 November 2022 02:30 (one year ago) link
let's say you could...how much would you pay?— Danny Singh (@Mr_DannySingh) November 2, 2022
fucking yikes (assuming this dude actually does work there)
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 November 2022 02:36 (one year ago) link
he does
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 3 November 2022 02:47 (one year ago) link
twitter but make it reverse cameo + onlyfans
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 November 2022 02:53 (one year ago) link
pay 2 harass
what about the reverse, John? have you ever had a time you wanted to chat with another twitter customer but they never responded?— Danny Singh (@Mr_DannySingh) November 2, 2022
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
This is hilarious and embarrassing. They really don't understand what people use Twitter for or how.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
“no wrong answers: what if you could buy a stake in a twitter account & effectively own them? any experiences with owning folx? painpoints?”
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:31 (one year ago) link
I feel a dril/Elon Musk showdown coming
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:35 (one year ago) link
this is so wild. I honestly thought given the money he paid and his eagerness to get out of the deal that he'd keep things mostly as-is but the dude is firing half his staff and crowdsourcing terrible ideas in order to generate revenue (which he won't have anyone to work on!) while simultaneously having an online meltdown which has led to him straight up antagonizing his entire userbase, all the while advertisers are jumping ship in anticipation of him turning it into a right-wing hate speech cesspool. and it hasn't even been a full week!!!
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:37 (one year ago) link
The Liz Truss of the social media world
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:39 (one year ago) link
I feel like our current reality is just hastening a real life Coupon: The Movie
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:41 (one year ago) link
you know how it's generally accepted that Kanye's mother dying is what turned him from an eccentric but successful weirdo into a full-on psychotic fascist? I think Elon's moment may have been everyone dunking on him for that stupid cave submarine
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 November 2022 03:58 (one year ago) link
we should have let him take it in there and sealed it shut
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 3 November 2022 04:15 (one year ago) link
wait he was going to drive the submarine?
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 November 2022 04:37 (one year ago) link
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 3 November 2022 bookmarkflaglink
A least it's only social media.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 November 2022 09:48 (one year ago) link
It's just logic.
"Changpeng Zhao, the chief executive and founder of Binance, said “a slimmer workforce would make more sense” at the social media platform. The cryptocurrency exchange has invested $500m (£441m) in Twitter as part of Musk’s $44bn takeover, which completed last week and has been followed by a stream of changes and mooted overhauls of the company ever since."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/03/twitter-may-axe-half-its-workforce-as-key-investor-backs-job-cuts-elon-musk
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 November 2022 11:04 (one year ago) link
“I trust him by reputation “ lmfao
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Thursday, 3 November 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
When your team is pushing round the clock to make deadlines sometimes you #SleepWhereYouWork https://t.co/UBGKYPilbD— Esther Crawford ✨ (@esthercrawford) November 2, 2022
― 龜, Thursday, 3 November 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link