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Wow they're working on really important and consequential things over there at Twitter under new management.
by tills13 2y ago
Wow they're working on really important and consequential things over there at Twitter under new management.
- bastawhiz 2y agoMy thoughts exactly. For all the hand wringing they did about cutting costs, their focus is on redesigning emojis? It's obvious to me that Elon doesn't actually care about making the service better and solving real problems (like boosting revenue or fixing problems that impact users).
- yacine_ 2y agolmao you really think this took me more than 15 minutes to do?
- meroes 2y agoBased on the number of bugs and difficulty X had doing anything in the first months after Elon come over, yes.
- bastawhiz 2y agoSounds like you've got so much to do
- not_wyoming 2y agoStill 15 minutes fixing something that wasn't broken instead of generating revenue or cutting costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edit - and another 10 defending the decision on HackerNews forums
- KoolKat23 2y agoA strange concern. All those superfluous hours wasted at a private company? Those billionaires will be fine without someone defending their money. Oh and wait until you hear about the Google Doodle...
- not_wyoming 2y agoIt would certainly be strange if I were concerned.
- rd 2y agoat least 25 seems reasonable, no?
- djbusby 2y agoCan you fix the sign-in loop next?
- yacine_ 2y agoyes
- BoredPositron 2y agoCan you do it in 15 minutes please?
- yacine_ 2y agounfortunately that one requires considerably more care
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoWhat makes you think their “focus” is on emojis? This is probably just one among many things they’re doing. And it’s the right thing to do, because the political censorship of the pistol emoji is yet another example of how deeply biased tech companies have been in pushing their politics onto customers.
- bastawhiz 2y agoThere's zero cost to leaving the emoji as it is. The designer of the new version claims he's still working on it, so I don't know how you can say it's not a "focus". It's a waste of time and money for purely ideological reasons.
- theultdev 2y agoThe change to the water gun was for ideological reasons. This is returning to the original. Without being the project manager, you're speculating on the amount of focus this had.
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- bastawhiz 2y agoIt's not a git revert. It is active effort to create a new emoji. There's zero cost to leaving it alone, there's material cost to changing it. Last time I checked, that's a bad way for a company that nearly went out of business to prioritize.
- theultdev 2y agoWell, I guess we'll just see how it pays off for them. It's already making buzz so if it was an hour of work, I'd say the marketing effect alone was worth it.
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- EcommerceFlow 2y agoIt was actually one of their employees reading a tweet about it and then just implementing it within an hour or two. The person was shocked at the autonomy X employees have.
- pensatoio 2y agoCouldn't you have made the same argument against changing it in the first place?
- YetAnotherNick 2y agoAnd changing is back is significantly easier. You don't have to design it, get review etc.
- nebula8804 2y agoNo because the reason it was changed is actually Apple's fault. They switched to a water pistol but because you can transmit an emoji cross platform, what may be perceived as a innocent message using the water pistol emoji could come across as a negative message when that water pistol is rendered as a gun in the receiver's phone. Scroll down in this page for the example I am citing: [0]:https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/ https://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-and-the-gun-emoji/ This really raises an interesting attack vector. Get influential enough at Apple -> push a change that could cause trouble for others given you are the largest entity -> they will be forced to adopt your change. This should have been picked up by congress because it is some small group (or even one person) affecting the decisions of the entire industry. Also its pretty fitting that Musk has applied his signature move: Make the change damn the consequences and then re-learn the reason why it was done in the first place when some disaster occurs. It must be nice that he never has to deal with the consequences of his actions.
- bitshiftfaced 2y agoYou can work on little things and big things at the same time.
- wongarsu 2y agoTwitter barely changes -> why do they have so many employees if they barely do anything. 80% get fired -> this is the end of twitter. Employee changes emoji -> why are they making such unimportant changes. Whatever happens at twitter, someone on the internet will complain about it.
- wmeredith 2y agoHeavy is the head that wears the crown.
- archagon 2y agoWhat crown?
- averageRoyalty 2y agoI think they sold it when they downsized.
- Anon1096 2y agoThe press this generated probably makes it one of the most impactful things someone can do with their 15 minutes of idle time