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Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week
- kiwi-ish 4y agoWas this planned sabotage by Elon?
- fourdchess 4y agoYes, Elon is playing 4D chess.
- lostlogin 4y ago… is he? This doesn’t seem to be under his control anymore.
- hef19898 4y agoEasy, he went through a couple of billion future outcmes of this 4D chess game and settled for the only one in which he wins. I onow, he seems to think of himself more like Tony Stark than Dr. Strange, but still.
- thedrbrian 4y agoI'm just waiting for the Bane-posting to start. "I'm taking down this company....... with no survivors"
- rickstanley 4y ago"Have we started the fire yet?" – Elon's supporters maybe.
- croes 4y agoOn a Mankomania board.
- theCrowing 4y agodon't you mean 4D Polytopia? Musk said that chess is way to easy.
- kaba0 4y ago4D chess on how to simultaneously burn down his whole career/companies?
- ActorNightly 4y agoIf a lot of your employees leave, its probably wise to revoke access to prevent anyone from potentially sabotaging stuff.
- drfuchs 4y agoIs he on drugs? Or having some sort of breakdown? Honestly asking; it’s hard to imagine messing up so badly.
- weinzierl 4y agoAlex Cohen: "I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices." "Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out." Elon Musk: "Thanks for helping out. You’re a lifesaver!" https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593404311832338442?s=46&t=krfJqku3JlYIDkha3C_bQw https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593404311832338442?...
- pigtailgirl 4y ago-- it's a satirical humor account --
- rhaway84773 4y agoIt’s a verified account. Blue check mark FTW baby.
- scambier 4y agoThey paid for the badge
- bryanrasmussen 4y agoA troll doesn't need any stinking badges, but sometimes it might be worthwhile paying for it anyway.
- croes 4y agoSeems like sticking to Twitter's parody requirements is harder than I thought. https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593407201913278464 https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593407201913278464
- idontwantthis 4y agoI’m really confused. The reply is from the real Elon account.
- cozzyd 4y agoThat's ok, just cancel thanksgiving so people can catch up. No big deal.
- Fatnino 4y agoI thought he gave everyone who wanted Thanksgiving and Christmas and new years (and Hanukkah) off with pay. They just had to not click on a button by 5pm yesterday.
- andrei_says_ 4y agoSomeone on Twitter said that Twitter has gone full Monty Python and I fully agree. I feel sad for all that will be lost - the wit, the wisdom, the ability to reach out to pretty much anyone.
- ActorNightly 4y agoIn other news, peoples desire to virtue signal is as strong as ever. George Hotz is going to be doing a 12 week internship at Twitter to optimize their code. And if you know anything about Hotz, he doesn't involve himself with any bullshit, and most certainly knows what he is doing software wise. Twitter is far from lost.
- netsharc 4y agoI don't know what his true motivations are (do you?), but maybe he's just curious what the codebase of Twitter looks like; or maybe Musk is promising a big paycheck if he manages to... to do what? I don't think Musk even knows what his goal is.
- Fatnino 4y agoNo, Hotz said in public while arguing with some other person on Twitter that he is willing to do 12 weeks at twitter for just cost of living in sf. Then Musk dropped in and said "you're on".
- benjaminwootton 4y agoI must have seen 50 people claiming they were leaving and sharing their Mastodon. Every single time they've continued tweeting with exactly the same frequency. I also suspect they were a pretty bloated organisation and they needed to change things radically. It will ruffle a lot of Elon hating feathers, but Twitter is going nowhere.
- kaba0 4y agoCan you honestly believe that an organization can continue working with 3/4 of its stuff gone? Hell, there are projects with a bus factor of one beneath all of our infrastructure (insert relevant xkcd here), and those are much simpler than such a monstrosity like twitter.
- DavideNL 4y agoFyi, perhaps others find this useful also to keep up with the latest: https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/ https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/ They have RSS too: https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/feed.xml https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/feed.xml
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- threatofrain 4y agoMega discussion here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33647882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33647882
- achow 4y agoBuried inside this discussion is pointer to a very interesting comment on Elon Musk's (allegedly) real reason for buying Twitter.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33510272#33510919 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33510272#33510919
- politelemon 4y agoThat conspiracy theory doesn't work - it fails to explain his current mismanagement and fumbling around which only endangers Twitter. Had the conspiracy any legs, his transition to ownership would be utterly boring.
- INTPenis 4y agoMaybe it appears careless from the outside looking in but could there be a chance that these are his tactics to turn a large ship around in a short time? (Not a fan of Musk, just playing devil's advocate because I enjoy exploring other perspectives)
- NicoJuicy 4y agoAs far as I'm noticing, he's planning on being a competitor for news subscriptions through crowdsourcing it at 8$ /month. This will also include fake news, since those people/easy believers could also pay the 8$.
- secondcoming 4y agoAnyone know what Twitter's infrastructure deployment process was like? I assume that if anything will go wrong, it'll start there; the software itself shouldn't need to be handheld so much. If it's all Kubernetes and what-not, and it still too complex for mere-mortals to grok then all companies should be worried.
- thih9 4y agoI wonder how all this, which looks like an ongoing chain of management missteps, is going to affect Musk's personal brand and, as a result, Tesla and SpaceX.
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