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Need it take 7,500 people to run Twitter?

13 points by georgehill 4y ago

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Comevius 4y ago
If Facebook's negligence in the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is any indication the answer is yes.
- georgehill 4y ago
  I don't understand your comment. How is it related to this post?
  - kmos17 4y ago
    I think they mean you need a lot of staff to monitor and moderate for dangerous/illegal content on a global platform. Elon will just call anyone who shit posts so that won’t be needed apparently.
  - Comevius 4y ago
    Facebook became available in Myanmar in 2011, but they didn't have anyone who could understand the local languages, so they had no idea what's happening on their own platform. The government and Buddhist nationalists basically overtook Facebook and started fueling the flames against the Rohingya people, which was followed by an ethnic cleansing. More than 700,000 Rohingya had to flee the country, 25,000 were killed and 18,000 women and girls were raped. Facebook played a determining role in the genocide, which they later admitted. They not only allowed it, they amplified it as their algorithm took hate speech as engagement and started pushing it, basically turning Facebook into the perfect propaganda machine for the Myanmar Armed Forces. It didn't help that by 2016 most Burmese people have considered Facebook as their primary news source.
    - georgehill 4y ago
      Thank you, Got it!
modinfo 4y ago
Twitter tells employees there are no plans for layoffs https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-workforce-likely-be-hit-with-massive-cuts-coming-months-report-2022-10-20/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-workforce-likely...
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sn0w_crash 4y ago
This is spot on and the comparison to WhatsApp is striking. The people defending twitter’s insane headcount strike me as people who have never run a business or a large team. They don’t understand what “dead weight” means, why a massive bloated bureaucracy forms, or how administrative bloat it defends itself. If anything, 75% is probably too low.
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13 points by georgehill 4y ago

KurvaKing 4y ago

Comevius 4y ago

If Facebook's negligence in the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar is any indication the answer is yes.

georgehill 4y ago
I don't understand your comment. How is it related to this post?
- kmos17 4y ago
  I think they mean you need a lot of staff to monitor and moderate for dangerous/illegal content on a global platform. Elon will just call anyone who shit posts so that won’t be needed apparently.
- Comevius 4y ago
  Facebook became available in Myanmar in 2011, but they didn't have anyone who could understand the local languages, so they had no idea what's happening on their own platform. The government and Buddhist nationalists basically overtook Facebook and started fueling the flames against the Rohingya people, which was followed by an ethnic cleansing. More than 700,000 Rohingya had to flee the country, 25,000 were killed and 18,000 women and girls were raped. Facebook played a determining role in the genocide, which they later admitted. They not only allowed it, they amplified it as their algorithm took hate speech as engagement and started pushing it, basically turning Facebook into the perfect propaganda machine for the Myanmar Armed Forces. It didn't help that by 2016 most Burmese people have considered Facebook as their primary news source.
  - georgehill 4y ago
    Thank you, Got it!

modinfo 4y ago

Twitter tells employees there are no plans for layoffs https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-workforce-likely-be-hit-with-massive-cuts-coming-months-report-2022-10-20/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitters-workforce-likely...

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sn0w_crash 4y ago

This is spot on and the comparison to WhatsApp is striking. The people defending twitter’s insane headcount strike me as people who have never run a business or a large team. They don’t understand what “dead weight” means, why a massive bloated bureaucracy forms, or how administrative bloat it defends itself. If anything, 75% is probably too low.

KurvaKing 4y ago