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> Talking with a software engineer who was fired by Musk. This person is saying they are conflicted. They feel mistreated, but want Twitter to survive - in spit
by ShamelessC 4y ago
> Talking with a software engineer who was fired by Musk. This person is saying they are conflicted. They feel mistreated, but want Twitter to survive - in spite of him, because of its outsized importance to the world.
> I agree.
I was following along just fine until this bit of corporate koolaid slipped out.
- Oxidation 4y agoIt's completely bizarre how deep in people go. It's a messaging website with a character limit, image attachment and adverts. That's it. It does nothing else. It was a little innovative in 2006, back when iPhones didn't exist and Gmail wasn't public. People who work there aren't "changing the world". They're just greasing some very ordinary revenue skids.
- ummonk 4y agoIt's definitely a useful news source but I expect Telegram to fill that niche quite soon.
- jakelazaroff 4y agoThis is a profound misunderstanding of what makes Twitter valuable. Of course the technology isn’t anything special. Of course the features aren’t revolutionary. The value is in the people that use it and the connections between them. That’s something that takes years of hard work; it can’t simply be built or bought.
- pyuser583 4y agoDon’t downplay twitters tech. They were credited with inventing microservices.
- the_snooze 4y agoExactly. I've gotten a lot of value out of Twitter because all my research collaborators are on it, as are their collaborators, and so on. It's a convenient place to keep track of all that. Twitter failing scatters that network to who-knows-where, and it'll take a long time (if ever) for it to coalesce like that again.
- drstewart 4y ago> It's a messaging website with a character limit, image attachment and adverts. That's it. You can reduce anything to sound meaningless with such trite statements.