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And yet nothing catastrophic happened as a result. The platform stumbled for a few months. Some people got bigmad. 80% of their most active users have stayed t

And yet nothing catastrophic happened as a result. The platform stumbled for a few months. Some people got bigmad. 80% of their most active users have stayed their most active users since the purchase. I'm so reminded of Carl Icahn's story of firing an entire 9 story building full of people and not hearing a single complaint about it from anyone. Everyone loves to tell you how critical they are. They even feel it to be true, but companies lay important people off all the time and the world goes on. People shouldn't be so invested in their jobs to define their value.

fzeroracer 3y ago
Their advertisers have been leaving in droves, Twitter itself has been breaking itself in new and profound ways since his take over and the site itself was broken (per Musk's own admission) as a result of the move. Profitability is in the dumpster, they're dealing with multiple court cases for refusing to abide by their legal obligations in regards to severance AND rent. And this entire critical move was caused by their lease running out with zero plans in place due to the financial crashing of Twitter. I can't tell exactly where you lie, because you blast Twitter for having incompetent engineers, yet defend Twitter for also having incompetent engineers but this time under Musk. He 'supposedly' cleaned up Twitter (well, the employees, never mind the moderation policies when he personally unbans someone that posts CSAM), but runs it worse than anyone pre-acquisition did.
- busterarm 3y ago
  > I can't tell exactly where you lie, because you blast Twitter for having incompetent engineers, yet defend Twitter for also having incompetent engineers but this time under Musk. He 'supposedly' cleaned up Twitter (well, the employees, never mind the moderation policies when he personally unbans someone that posts CSAM), but runs it worse than anyone pre-acquisition did. The problem is people like yourself (nothing personal) acting like there's sides to be on and that it matters. Twitter was a stupid company before and is still a stupid company after. Bystanders are stupid for being waaaaaaaaay too invested in the story and the outcome. Tribalism is fucking cancer. The era of risk free money created a world-scale reality distortion field where people believed that a company like Twitter -- with no novel product, no paying customers, no growth trajectory and a cash burn rate that could put men on the fucking moon -- is a viable, thriving business. Brand equity is only powerful for as long as you have money in your pocket and the rent isn't fucking due. And advertisers are fickle. I don't know how anyone who read "The Emperor's New Clothes" as a child could give the slightest shit about Twitter, but here we are.
jkubicek 3y ago
> And yet nothing catastrophic happened as a result. Musk himself blames the DeSantis Spaces debacle on this poorly planned server move. If that's not catastrophic, I don't know what is. There's almost certainly entire teams of on-call engineers pulling heroic shifts because of this. I'm sure Musk DGAF, but those poor souls losing their holidays, weekends and time with their friends and family probably care.
- busterarm 3y ago
  Catastrophic to DeSantis? Maybe, but his campaign clearly has its own problems. Catastrophic to Twitter? Nahhhhhhh.

fzeroracer 3y ago

Their advertisers have been leaving in droves, Twitter itself has been breaking itself in new and profound ways since his take over and the site itself was broken (per Musk's own admission) as a result of the move. Profitability is in the dumpster, they're dealing with multiple court cases for refusing to abide by their legal obligations in regards to severance AND rent. And this entire critical move was caused by their lease running out with zero plans in place due to the financial crashing of Twitter. I can't tell exactly where you lie, because you blast Twitter for having incompetent engineers, yet defend Twitter for also having incompetent engineers but this time under Musk. He 'supposedly' cleaned up Twitter (well, the employees, never mind the moderation policies when he personally unbans someone that posts CSAM), but runs it worse than anyone pre-acquisition did.

busterarm 3y ago
> I can't tell exactly where you lie, because you blast Twitter for having incompetent engineers, yet defend Twitter for also having incompetent engineers but this time under Musk. He 'supposedly' cleaned up Twitter (well, the employees, never mind the moderation policies when he personally unbans someone that posts CSAM), but runs it worse than anyone pre-acquisition did. The problem is people like yourself (nothing personal) acting like there's sides to be on and that it matters. Twitter was a stupid company before and is still a stupid company after. Bystanders are stupid for being waaaaaaaaay too invested in the story and the outcome. Tribalism is fucking cancer. The era of risk free money created a world-scale reality distortion field where people believed that a company like Twitter -- with no novel product, no paying customers, no growth trajectory and a cash burn rate that could put men on the fucking moon -- is a viable, thriving business. Brand equity is only powerful for as long as you have money in your pocket and the rent isn't fucking due. And advertisers are fickle. I don't know how anyone who read "The Emperor's New Clothes" as a child could give the slightest shit about Twitter, but here we are.

jkubicek 3y ago

> And yet nothing catastrophic happened as a result. Musk himself blames the DeSantis Spaces debacle on this poorly planned server move. If that's not catastrophic, I don't know what is. There's almost certainly entire teams of on-call engineers pulling heroic shifts because of this. I'm sure Musk DGAF, but those poor souls losing their holidays, weekends and time with their friends and family probably care.

busterarm 3y ago
Catastrophic to DeSantis? Maybe, but his campaign clearly has its own problems. Catastrophic to Twitter? Nahhhhhhh.