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> 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 t
by 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.