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Twitter engineering boss Foad Dabiri quits day after DeSantis launch glitches
- Waterluvian 3y ago> "After almost four incredible years at Twitter, I decided to leave the nest yesterday." Recently I teased PR for how their announcements never sound human. But this is what you get when people without PR experience give announcements. It’s always the same format and usually includes a weird idiom.
- freecodyx 3y agoDoes not matter much
- throwawee 3y agoIt's a bird joke.
- Waterluvian 3y agoYeah but birds don’t live in nests. They hatch babies there. So is the metaphor that Foad is a momma bird, or that he’s all grown up and has flown the nest? It’s Saturday evening and I want to be pedantic, dammit!
- crossroadsguy 3y agoSo did this ex-Twitter employee. Hatched products there and lived in their house. Basically it meant they are done laying eggs there. This works?
- Waterluvian 3y agoSure. It’s just always a weird format with some cute metaphor. “after X ADJECTIVE years I’ve decided to move on to greener pastures or whatnot.” I guess maybe I’m just not attached to jobs the way some are so it comes off as phoney to me. The kind of thing you say when hiring managers are watching.
- crossroadsguy 3y agoNeither they are. That's why they just want to get done with it while not burning any bridges, or possibly closing any doors. Whenever I see copy pasta/regular resignations messages which involves praise or good feelings I assume this person was unhappy there.
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- fizx 3y agoIt's a random engineering director in the growth dept, likely not on the hook for Spaces. Feels pretty likely to be unrelated.
- confoundcofound 3y agoThe media is hellbent on pushing the narrative that Musk is destroying Twitter. It’s actually kind of wild. You see it on here too. I think Musk’s product vision is noble and clear: to make Twitter as neutral and transparent a speech platform as possible. No soft censoring, algorithmic manipulation, etc. You can imagine why certain groups would be against that. And rooting out “extremism” is not it, despite what they say.
- dragontamer 3y ago> No soft censoring Of course. Only the hardcore and literal censoring from Turkey.
- confoundcofound 3y agoI don’t believe the the US government ever threatened to take Twitter down if it didn’t comply with their censor requests. It’s just that those requests happened to align politically with those running Twitter Trust & Safety. My understanding is that Erdojan threatened to throttle the site for the entire country - a cost that maybe you or I may not have incurred if we were in that position. At the very least, Twitter was transparent about the content restriction, which is certainly better than how the previous team operated.
- dragontamer 3y agohttps://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-orders/ https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-or... Twitter used to reject more censorship requests. Now they're accepting more of them after Mr. Musk has become the owner. I'm comparing Twitter pre-Musk vs Twitter post-Musk. > Most alarmingly, Twitter's self-reports do not show a single request in which the company refused to comply, as it had done several times before the Musk takeover.
- rks404 3y agooh look, they figured out who fucked up twitter
- xg15 3y ago> Working with @elonmusk has been highly educational, and it was enlightening to see how his principles and vision are shaping the future of this company. Enlightening and educational indeed, I suppose.
- dehrmann 3y agoThis guy's a pro. He said all he needed to say with that.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoHe left out the wonderful journey.
- WalterBright 3y agoWe'll see. I'd buy stock in Twitter today if I could. I bet Musk gets it profitable - the previous management never did.
- linuxdude314 3y agoSounds like someone doesn't know much about how Twitter is capitalized.
- WalterBright 3y agoI know it's privately held and can't buy stock in it.
- Beldin 3y agoI realise that this is the premise of the Musk takeover. How does that work in practice? Twitter was a public company, with plenty of current and former employees having shares due to compensation. Were these people forced to accept money over their legitimately held shares? If not, is it now illegal for them to sell their shares? In other words: I can see that it is no longer traded at the stock exchange, but I don't know enough about stock to understand how the genie is forced back into the bottle.
- keyboardJones 3y agoFrom his Twitter thread: > And since some have asked, my decision and the timing of it are independent of any recent events.
- 23B1 3y agoTwo things 1. Dabiri mentioned in a tweet (left out of the BBC article ofc) that his departure didn’t have to do with recent events. That might be face-saving on his part but it is clickbaiting on the BBC’s part. Source: https://twitter.com/foaddabiri/status/1662110369140310023?s=20 https://twitter.com/foaddabiri/status/1662110369140310023?s=... 2. Second point is that evidently twitter didn’t pay its bills (hosting maybe?) for Spaces. Source: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-cut-key-software-before-desantis-audio-glitch?utm_source=ti_app https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-cut-key-soft... Both are obviously RUMINT but, there ya go…
- sillysaurusx 3y agoIt’s a real thing. I left a place recently for completely unrelated reasons, and figuring out how to tell everyone was weirdly challenging. The timing was also such that it seemed directly related to the company. Sometimes people just want to change up their career. It happens. There’s no particular reason. And yeah, sure, he could’ve been let go for the technical glitches. But it’s hardly his fault if his heart isn’t in it anymore. People change. The trick is to depart before it becomes a problem, which (as I’ve discovered) is indeed tricky. Your instinct is to stay simply because it’s the default, it’s good money, and it’s no effort to change the status quo. Plus you worked hard to get there. All of those are difficult forces to overcome when you just want to do something, anything, else.
- Waterluvian 3y agoThe rate at which drama happens at Twitter probably makes it especially tricky to time an exit to avoid it looking like the reason. I think in the absence of evidence we just take the man at his word.
- senttoschool 3y agoEveryone went against me on HN when I said it's dangerous of BBC to associate the Desantis event with Dabiri without evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36082410#36082475 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36082410#36082475
- shusaku 3y agoI feel like every live streaming event always makes me feel like I’m stuck in a work zoom meeting. There’s just something about the ambiance. Technical glitches aside, I feel like spaces wasn’t the right venue for this, it’s like a meeting with middle management.
- TheFreim 3y agoIt was a venue where one expects something more casual, but it was just reading a script and reading questions which were also likely scripted. Did not fit the tone of the site at all. It seems like DeSantis wanted to make some sort of statement, whatever that may be, by using twitter but acted the same way one would on television. Love him or hate him, Trump's team has had a better handling of social media over the years.
- cout 3y agoWhat is it with using the word "boss" in headlines recently? It comes across to me as negative, perhaps because it makes me think of "crime boss". Is that the intent or am I off base?