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Based on "many people are saying". It's circular reasoning at best. 80% of employees were fired because it was overstaffed, and since the site is still up afte

Based on "many people are saying". It's circular reasoning at best. 80% of employees were fired because it was overstaffed, and since the site is still up afterwards, Twitter was overstaffed.

threeseed 4y ago
Plane without a pilot will still fly for quite some time. Doesn't mean the pilot is superfluous. And my point still stands that there is no empirical evidence that Twitter was overstaffed. We do know that their revenue/employee back in 2020 was better than many other startups e.g. Shopify, Zoom. https://twitter.com/RyanReeves_/status/1423013707190206464?lang=en https://twitter.com/RyanReeves_/status/1423013707190206464?l...
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago
  > Doesn't mean the pilot is superfluous the pilot is the pilot, but 80% of the crew is, if the plan is to got from A to B. Maybe a second pilot for backup is a good idea, but is cabin crew selling lottery tickets on flight?
  - everforward 4y ago
    The cabin crew is there to keep control of the passengers. Keep people from smoking, make there aren't fights over masks, make sure nobody downs a whole bottle of whisky they bought in the duty free store and proceeds to do God knows what. Even the cheap airlines have cabin crew; they're not there for the hell of it.
    - nindalf 4y ago
      But it’s a great analogy because a layman looks at an airline operation and thinks “yeah I can do this without the crew”. They’re wrong, just like all the people who think they can run Twitter with 20 good men.
- Animatronio 4y ago
  Yeah, but the people that got fired were more like passengers than crew.
- danielscrubs 4y ago
  Net Income per employee was -22,813 USD and the P/E ratio as of November 2022 (TTM): -413.
ReflectedImage 4y ago
"still up afterwards" No, it's crumbling as we speak. You can get pirated movies from Twitter now, for example. It's microservice based site features will break one by one.
- ashwagary 4y ago
  >You can get pirated movies from Twitter now, for example. Sounds like an upgrade. That's not really helping your point. >It's microservice based site features will break one by one. Yes, I see this as highly probable.

Based on "many people are saying". It's circular reasoning at best. 80% of employees were fired because it was overstaffed, and since the site is still up afterwards, Twitter was overstaffed.

threeseed 4y ago

Plane without a pilot will still fly for quite some time. Doesn't mean the pilot is superfluous. And my point still stands that there is no empirical evidence that Twitter was overstaffed. We do know that their revenue/employee back in 2020 was better than many other startups e.g. Shopify, Zoom. https://twitter.com/RyanReeves_/status/1423013707190206464?lang=en https://twitter.com/RyanReeves_/status/1423013707190206464?l...

peoplefromibiza 4y ago
> Doesn't mean the pilot is superfluous the pilot is the pilot, but 80% of the crew is, if the plan is to got from A to B. Maybe a second pilot for backup is a good idea, but is cabin crew selling lottery tickets on flight?
- everforward 4y ago
  The cabin crew is there to keep control of the passengers. Keep people from smoking, make there aren't fights over masks, make sure nobody downs a whole bottle of whisky they bought in the duty free store and proceeds to do God knows what. Even the cheap airlines have cabin crew; they're not there for the hell of it.
  - nindalf 4y ago
    But it’s a great analogy because a layman looks at an airline operation and thinks “yeah I can do this without the crew”. They’re wrong, just like all the people who think they can run Twitter with 20 good men.
Animatronio 4y ago
Yeah, but the people that got fired were more like passengers than crew.
danielscrubs 4y ago
Net Income per employee was -22,813 USD and the P/E ratio as of November 2022 (TTM): -413.

ReflectedImage 4y ago

"still up afterwards" No, it's crumbling as we speak. You can get pirated movies from Twitter now, for example. It's microservice based site features will break one by one.

ashwagary 4y ago
>You can get pirated movies from Twitter now, for example. Sounds like an upgrade. That's not really helping your point. >It's microservice based site features will break one by one. Yes, I see this as highly probable.