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Musk is right though: What are they actually doing? It took them a decade or so to build an edit button despite having a head count of almost 8000. Reddit has l
by this_user 4y ago
Musk is right though: What are they actually doing? It took them a decade or so to build an edit button despite having a head count of almost 8000. Reddit has less than 1000, and they are supporting a lot more features than Twitter.
- astorsnk 4y agoWhat a terrible take. Yep those 8000 people have been coding an edit button for the last decade. You can’t be serious?
- betwixthewires 4y agoI think the point is "what were those 8000 people doing for a decade."
- taolegal 4y agoI have a hard time seeing Twitter as anything but a communist make-work program & propaganda dissemination platform. The politics are obvious, and extend to other companies as well.
- IncandescentGas 4y agoThe obvious answer is working on non user facing features. Advertising platform, infrastructure, harmful content filters, propaganda as a service, etc etc
- Bubble_Pop_22 4y agoWhat is Musk actually doing? Tesla is a 20 years old company, supposedly decades ahead of everybody and still hasn't matched the number of Porsches on the road. And I said Porsche. The quintessential luxury brand, not Ford or GM. Yes I know that people love their Porsches and are willing to spend money to keep them around and also collect them, but still it's crazy that a company which should be the backbone of the industrial economy still hasn't matched the number of Porsches. Twitter is a Tesla without the shameless hype and constant astroturfing and manufactured consensus.
- meremortals 4y agoMusk also launched SpaceX to get humanity to Mars, Starlink for global Internet, Boring Company to decrease traffic congestion, and Neuralink to improve brain I/O
- Bubble_Pop_22 4y agoHow many of these ventures fit the quadruple requirement of: 1) Being practical, not purely aspirational 2) Not burning more money than they make 3) Not constantly requiring capital raises 4) Not needing government subsides and corporate welfare Musk is 50 and hasn't managed to light up all the 4 requirements at the same time. Enough with the BS. Especially here people should be skeptical because game recognizes game. In SV all the aspirational stuff is vaporware and BS. Mars, tunnels and brain comms. All BS.
- mlindner 4y agoIt's hilarious how little you know about this subject.
- bigmattystyles 4y agoDon’t forget repopulating the earth! Enough with the hero worship, he’s good at PR at the expense of real people.
- colinmhayes 4y agoThis definitely sounds like a shit take, but I largely agree. Twitter had the original TikTok but was too incompetent to see the potential. I’m not going to say they haven’t added any features this decade, but I will say that none of them have been successful.