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Linked tweet is deleted. Here's CNBC's article: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-say-layoffs-have-started-as-elon-musk-takes-over.htm

by _23sd 4y ago

Linked tweet is deleted. Here's CNBC's article: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-say-layoffs-have-started-as-elon-musk-takes-over.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-...

qbasic_forever 4y ago
- hgsgm 4y ago
- gkoberger 4y ago
  It's likely deleted because the author realized it's almost definitely fake. There's no way only two people were laid off, and wanted to stand outside and give interviews. Their boxes are mostly empty, and it's such a cliche to "get fired" with a box of your stuff.
jimt1234 4y ago
Free speech has begun. LOL
- paulgb 4y ago
  Most likely the user deleting their own tweet (see https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586055365409443840 https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586055365409443840)
  - _23sd 4y ago
    Wow, so CNBC potentially put up a front page story based on the word of a guy on the street, no verification? I don't know how normal that is but it doesn't sound good.
    - Kye 4y ago
      I was always under the impression the common journalistic standard was two independent verifications in general and three for super serious, potentially litigation inducing stuff.
concinds 4y ago
I'm hearing these two guys were IRL trolls (not Twitter employees), and CNBC was bamboozled.
- deleted 4y ago
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ryzvonusef 4y ago
another link from a different reporter: https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586042389851820034 https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586042389851820034
- bpicolo 4y ago
  > Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn’t know how he’s going to make payments. These seem like fabulously hilarious trolls
dankboys 4y ago
The embedded tweet was a prank, guy gives his name as "Rahul Ligma" https://twitter.com/wealthycfo/status/1586053744269340672?s=46&t=TDZkfffpNzh5As24VZFxEQ https://twitter.com/wealthycfo/status/1586053744269340672?s=...
akavi 4y ago
Probably because the interviewees were playing a prank; one gave his name as "Rahul Ligma"[0] (as in "lig ma balls", referencing a meme) [0] https://twitter.com/WealthyCFO/status/1586053744269340672 https://twitter.com/WealthyCFO/status/1586053744269340672
dang 4y ago
Ok, we've changed to that from https://twitter.com/anthony/status/1586047790341398534 https://twitter.com/anthony/status/1586047790341398534. Thanks! Edit: changed from https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-say-layoffs-have-started-as-elon-musk-takes-over.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-... to a more accurate report now.
- gkoberger 4y ago
  You should remove this altogether; it's definitely a prank. These two people didn't actually work at Twitter, and as of right now there haven't been any layoffs (outside of 4 executives being fired).
  - Brian_K_White 4y ago
    It's a real story that CNBC reported a fake story, and that's all the updated title says. (Actually, I don't know what the title says because I see two different titles. In Feedly it says "CNBC reporting that..." but here on this page it says "Departing Twitter employees...". If the title was updated to be correct, I'd expect the Feedly copy to be old and this copy to be current. I'd also generally expect an aggregator (Feedly) to be less authoritative and less current than the source (HNn), yet in this case the Feedly title is correct and what I see right here in my browser on a phone is incorrect, or rather, not updated anyway. So, thanks to the existence of editing and unknown caching in unknown places/layers, I have no way to say what the title even is, and so no way to say if it's correct or not.)
    - concinds 4y ago
      It's not; the title says CNBC reported layoffs have started; not that CNBC fell for a hoax. There is literally zero other backing for "layoffs have started"; not anonymous sources, not official sources, not CNBC investigations. The entire basis for this was that hoax. @dang should delete this. The entire article is false and will need to be retracted.
      - 4y ago
hardtke 4y ago
The tweet by @Anthony was deleted within a few minutes of me responding (could be coincidental of course) [1] The disturbing part is how the retweet chain between the reporters on Twitter changed the story: The original Tweet was "Entire team of data engineers let go." That became "Twitter data engineering team..." That became "Twitter's entire data engineering team let go" Needless to say "Entire team of data engineers" is much smaller in scope than "Twitter's entire data engineering team." The WSJ reporter who posted this tweet made an egregious error (even before the hoax was revealed). [1] https://twitter.com/stinky_teddy/status/1586056205075521536?s=20&t=MaNqDZxqQYMr7eAtHwqtKw https://twitter.com/stinky_teddy/status/1586056205075521536?...

by _23sd 4y ago

qbasic_forever 4y ago

hgsgm 4y ago
gkoberger 4y ago
It's likely deleted because the author realized it's almost definitely fake. There's no way only two people were laid off, and wanted to stand outside and give interviews. Their boxes are mostly empty, and it's such a cliche to "get fired" with a box of your stuff.

jimt1234 4y ago

Free speech has begun. LOL

paulgb 4y ago
Most likely the user deleting their own tweet (see https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586055365409443840 https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586055365409443840)
- _23sd 4y ago
  Wow, so CNBC potentially put up a front page story based on the word of a guy on the street, no verification? I don't know how normal that is but it doesn't sound good.
  - Kye 4y ago
    I was always under the impression the common journalistic standard was two independent verifications in general and three for super serious, potentially litigation inducing stuff.

concinds 4y ago

I'm hearing these two guys were IRL trolls (not Twitter employees), and CNBC was bamboozled.

deleted 4y ago
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ryzvonusef 4y ago

another link from a different reporter: https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586042389851820034 https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586042389851820034

bpicolo 4y ago
> Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn’t know how he’s going to make payments. These seem like fabulously hilarious trolls

dankboys 4y ago

The embedded tweet was a prank, guy gives his name as "Rahul Ligma" https://twitter.com/wealthycfo/status/1586053744269340672?s=46&t=TDZkfffpNzh5As24VZFxEQ https://twitter.com/wealthycfo/status/1586053744269340672?s=...

akavi 4y ago

Probably because the interviewees were playing a prank; one gave his name as "Rahul Ligma"[0] (as in "lig ma balls", referencing a meme) [0] https://twitter.com/WealthyCFO/status/1586053744269340672 https://twitter.com/WealthyCFO/status/1586053744269340672

dang 4y ago

Ok, we've changed to that from https://twitter.com/anthony/status/1586047790341398534 https://twitter.com/anthony/status/1586047790341398534. Thanks! Edit: changed from https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-say-layoffs-have-started-as-elon-musk-takes-over.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-... to a more accurate report now.

gkoberger 4y ago
You should remove this altogether; it's definitely a prank. These two people didn't actually work at Twitter, and as of right now there haven't been any layoffs (outside of 4 executives being fired).
- Brian_K_White 4y ago
  It's a real story that CNBC reported a fake story, and that's all the updated title says. (Actually, I don't know what the title says because I see two different titles. In Feedly it says "CNBC reporting that..." but here on this page it says "Departing Twitter employees...". If the title was updated to be correct, I'd expect the Feedly copy to be old and this copy to be current. I'd also generally expect an aggregator (Feedly) to be less authoritative and less current than the source (HNn), yet in this case the Feedly title is correct and what I see right here in my browser on a phone is incorrect, or rather, not updated anyway. So, thanks to the existence of editing and unknown caching in unknown places/layers, I have no way to say what the title even is, and so no way to say if it's correct or not.)
  - concinds 4y ago
    It's not; the title says CNBC reported layoffs have started; not that CNBC fell for a hoax. There is literally zero other backing for "layoffs have started"; not anonymous sources, not official sources, not CNBC investigations. The entire basis for this was that hoax. @dang should delete this. The entire article is false and will need to be retracted.
    - 4y ago

hardtke 4y ago

The tweet by @Anthony was deleted within a few minutes of me responding (could be coincidental of course) [1] The disturbing part is how the retweet chain between the reporters on Twitter changed the story: The original Tweet was "Entire team of data engineers let go." That became "Twitter data engineering team..." That became "Twitter's entire data engineering team let go" Needless to say "Entire team of data engineers" is much smaller in scope than "Twitter's entire data engineering team." The WSJ reporter who posted this tweet made an egregious error (even before the hoax was revealed). [1] https://twitter.com/stinky_teddy/status/1586056205075521536?s=20&t=MaNqDZxqQYMr7eAtHwqtKw https://twitter.com/stinky_teddy/status/1586056205075521536?...