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But Twitter/Musk's detractors are moving the goalpost. The initial argument was that twitter would not be able to function without much of the staff that were f
by throwntoday 4y ago
But Twitter/Musk's detractors are moving the goalpost. The initial argument was that twitter would not be able to function without much of the staff that were fired, that they were somehow imperative to the site staying up. Now that it's been over a week, and the site is taking on more traffic than it has in a while, the goalpost is being moved to "this will never be profitable".
I understand people hope it will fail, because they don't want to admit how useless much of the staff these big tech companies have accumulated over the years are to the core products. But, you will only be setting yourself up for disappointment. Elon has done much more impressive things with a small team of "hardcore" engineers (as he puts it). I think many sticking around are the type not to shy away from a challenge, though again I understand many are not in a position to be playing competing in the workplace.
- sroussey 4y agoFor perspective, the staff in 2018 was 3700. Now maybe 2700. Of course, if you were vital to Twitter, then you likely left before he took over. Because you could. Plenty of people would rather have severance. I base this on experience. I was a consultant so I did what all good consultants do when holding together a sinking ship: I doubled my rates. Twice.
- dspillett 4y ago> The initial argument was that twitter would not be able to function without much of the staff that were fired, You are missing out some important nuance there: no one said it would fall off the earth immediately, that it would cease to function right now. Many, myself included, have said we think it can't function long term, or even medium term, like this. Day to day running of the main app is all automated when things are OK so it will keep ticking over as long as someone says the infrastructure invoices. The real test comes when there is next an infrastructure issue or some other fault: are the right sort of people there to resolve it quickly? Also do they have a good combination of people around to work on those bugs those advertisers are concerned about and other maintainence & improvement (of both the app and the other infrastructure it and the company relys upon)? If we get rid of all car mechanics your car won't break down immediately, but good look getting it sorted easily when it eventually does develop a fault. Twitter was somewhat bloated, I agree there. But what has happened to it in recent weeks is far more damaging than that could ever have been. It needs to turn around very quickly to survive financially and technically, and I think the chances of that happening are small.
- oaktrout 4y ago"no one said it would fall off the earth immediately, that it would cease to function right now" Quite a few people said that it would crash essentially immediately.
- JacobThreeThree 4y agoAnd suddenly everyone is extremely concerned about the state of Twitter's finances. Hating on Twitter has become just another political in-group signal. Yawn.
- matthewmacleod 4y agoI hope the outrageous irony of this comment is not lost on you.
- RC_ITR 4y ago> The initial argument was that twitter would not be able to function without much of the staff that were fired, that they were somehow imperative to the site staying up. Again, what does this even look like? Twitter.com returns 404 and everyone gives up? At least make straw man arguments that are reasonable.