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1. Move the office to a city other than San Francisco where the costs of living aren't exorbitantly high. Plenty of other cities that have lower costs of living
by DigitalSea 10y ago
1. Move the office to a city other than San Francisco where the costs of living aren't exorbitantly high. Plenty of other cities that have lower costs of living and would offer tax breaks for a company like Twitter. Allow employees to remotely work if they want.
2. Reduce salaries and lay some people off. Having seen how many people work for Twitter and how big their office is on Market street, some people need to go. Realise this wouldn't be popular, but Twitter is spending way too much cash.
3. Reduce the size of the ridiculous buffet they have for lunches, make it a fixed menu with 3 or 4 meals to prevent food waste. Get rid of the free alcohol and soft drink they seem to offer.
4. Actually, embrace developers, make the API limits more generous and allow developers to build cool things like the early days of Twitter.
5. Raise the character limit (even make this a premium feature, double it to 280 characters).
6. Get rid of Jack as CEO, it's not working. Twitter is losing money, they're not innovating and they keep focusing on things like video which most don't care for.
7. Focus on the core product and get rid of the Google-like dream products.
The way I see it, Twitter isn't a complicated idea. It's somewhat predictable size text strings being shown in a feed. Twitter is the kind of app you clone when you're learning a framework like Ruby on Rails, it's not a complicated idea from a technical standpoint. There is no reason to be spending two-billion per year.
- Apocryphon 10y agoIn a different world, Twitter would be headquartered in Brisbane: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2011/01/twitter-loking-at-brisbane-as-possible.html http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2011/01/twitter... https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/13/twitter-considers-moving-its-headquarters-to-brisbane-ca/ https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/13/twitter-considers-moving-i...
- throewai 10y agoGot excited and thought it might be Brisbane, AU.
- Twirrim 10y ago> Twitter is the kind of app you clone when you're learning a framework like Ruby on Rails, it's not a complicated idea from a technical standpoint. That's quite a gross simplification. You could say the same about S3. It's no more complicated than a server with RAID hard disks in it. Even the simple stuff becomes really complicated at scale.
- biztos 10y agoI've never seen their HQ, much less their lunches, but is that really a thing? And aren't they in the Tenderloin in SF? Wouldn't they normally be donating their excess food to shelters / the homeless / the poor? I don't disagree with your points, it just strikes me as weird that the lunch menu would be such an issue.