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I'm puzzled by this move. The more and more I read about a business being political the less I want to support it. I have been a long time twitter user for 15

I'm puzzled by this move. The more and more I read about a business being political the less I want to support it. I have been a long time twitter user for 15 years (some years daily and some years weekly) and I just made a threads account.

nox101 2y ago
I don't know about the move to San Jose specifically but 9th-10th and Market in SF is arguably not a nice place currently. This is 2 blocks away https://www.ktvu.com/news/report-workers-at-sf-federal-building-told-to-work-from-home-due-to-crime-concerns https://www.ktvu.com/news/report-workers-at-sf-federal-build... This is 2 blocks away https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/15/sideshow-crash-market-street-bike-shop-closing/ https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/15/sideshow-crash-market-stre... This is 1 block away https://sfstandard.com/2023/04/10/downtown-san-francisco-whole-foods-market-closing/ https://sfstandard.com/2023/04/10/downtown-san-francisco-who... I hope SF can fix itself but it's arguably on the government to make the city safe and clean. I wouldn't be begrudge any company leaving it currently. I'm not that's not the only reason they're leaving and if they wanted to say in SF there are probably some other locations, maybe Mission Bay, they could have picked. But, SF is ridiculously expensive and downtown still seems like it's got further to fall. There will need to be huge changes in zoning and lots of investment for it to recover.
- bob_theslob646 2y ago
  But you don't think that will change with the executive order from newson to remove homeless camps? Does Elon think that the talent he has in SF will just magically move? That's why I'm puzzled
  - nox101 2y ago
    > But you don't think that will change with the executive order from newson to remove homeless camps? I don't remember there being homeless camps on Market but maybe I missed them. I saw them in other places around SF though. So unless there's more to it I don't expect just cleaning up the homeless camps to be enough to fix SF. > Does Elon think that the talent he has in SF will just magically move? How much talent does x/twitter require? Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Google/Microsoft have 20-30-50-100 different products each, some of those products with 50-100 teams for different parts of the product. X seems like it has 1 product with 4-ish features. Posts, Ads, Video, Direct Messages. Is there more?

nox101 2y ago

I don't know about the move to San Jose specifically but 9th-10th and Market in SF is arguably not a nice place currently. This is 2 blocks away https://www.ktvu.com/news/report-workers-at-sf-federal-building-told-to-work-from-home-due-to-crime-concerns https://www.ktvu.com/news/report-workers-at-sf-federal-build... This is 2 blocks away https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/15/sideshow-crash-market-street-bike-shop-closing/ https://sfstandard.com/2024/07/15/sideshow-crash-market-stre... This is 1 block away https://sfstandard.com/2023/04/10/downtown-san-francisco-whole-foods-market-closing/ https://sfstandard.com/2023/04/10/downtown-san-francisco-who... I hope SF can fix itself but it's arguably on the government to make the city safe and clean. I wouldn't be begrudge any company leaving it currently. I'm not that's not the only reason they're leaving and if they wanted to say in SF there are probably some other locations, maybe Mission Bay, they could have picked. But, SF is ridiculously expensive and downtown still seems like it's got further to fall. There will need to be huge changes in zoning and lots of investment for it to recover.

bob_theslob646 2y ago
But you don't think that will change with the executive order from newson to remove homeless camps? Does Elon think that the talent he has in SF will just magically move? That's why I'm puzzled
- nox101 2y ago
  > But you don't think that will change with the executive order from newson to remove homeless camps? I don't remember there being homeless camps on Market but maybe I missed them. I saw them in other places around SF though. So unless there's more to it I don't expect just cleaning up the homeless camps to be enough to fix SF. > Does Elon think that the talent he has in SF will just magically move? How much talent does x/twitter require? Facebook/Apple/Amazon/Google/Microsoft have 20-30-50-100 different products each, some of those products with 50-100 teams for different parts of the product. X seems like it has 1 product with 4-ish features. Posts, Ads, Video, Direct Messages. Is there more?