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Any business operating at Twitter's scale (and I mean this in a business sense, not a technical sense) has far more to do, operationally, than sustain mission-c
by fatbird 4y ago
Any business operating at Twitter's scale (and I mean this in a business sense, not a technical sense) has far more to do, operationally, than sustain mission-critical activities. The accessibility team is gone; the curation team is gone; the moderation team is gone. This is what drove advertisers away: Musk promised that it wouldn't become a free-for-all hellscape, and then eliminated the organizational controls that were preventing just that.
It doesn't matter if they have enough runway to last a quarter without revenue if there's no prospects of bringing back enough revenue to sustain the business, and thus far, there's no hint of any revenue stream sufficient to do so even at Twitter's reduced headcount. And Musk now has to find those new sources of revenue in the middle of organizational chaos when Twitter is least able to execute on any new ideas or iterate effectively.
Do you remember when Digg was king of the Internet, and then they released a badly received update and a week later were no longer even a top contender, eventually to be sold for $500,000? This is the market in which Musk is trying to iterate quickly by lighting everything on fire to motivate those who are left. I'm sceptical, to put it mildly.
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