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> It crashed multiple times after his cuts and that was while dealing with a largely reduced flow of traffic. It crashed multiple times before he bought it too
by starspangled 2y ago
> It crashed multiple times after his cuts and that was while dealing with a largely reduced flow of traffic.
It crashed multiple times before he bought it too though.
> Twitter has survived death, but it’s only a fraction of what it used to be in terms of traffic, revenue, and profit compared to before Musk
That fraction of traffic being somewhere around 3/4 to 4/5 the hits, according to a quick search, does that sound about right?
That the dire predictions on HN, reddit, etc., about twitter's destruction after those aggressive layoffs turned out to be wrong. We were assured that it would imminently implode and/or explode. Not that revenue or traffic would be reduced due to content/policy/marketing/etc, but specifically that the site would essentially cease to operate due to lack of technical expertise. I think it's fair to say those predictions were wrong, and not wrong because traffic was so significantly reduced that the problem went from imminent implosion to more-or-less operating as usual, but because they were really just baseless speculation driven by wishful thinking.
- curtisblaine 2y agoLayoffs were around 80% of the total workforce. It's impressive that they managed to stay up & running with 4/5 of the hits. The real Pareto law: you can run at 80% capacity by cutting your developers to 20%. All jokes aside, either Musk's people were incredibly good at reducing waste or the majority of developers and PMs at Twitter were doing nothing useful. I can't see any other explanation.
- lovich 2y agoDiverting assets from the publicly trader company you run, to the privately traded company you also run, does wonders for the balance books as well https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-ordered-nvidia-ship-thousands-ai-chips-reserved-tesla-x-xai-rcna155371 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-ordered-nvi...
- curtisblaine 2y agoThat's irrelevant from the tech point of view though. They still cut 80% workforce and managed to stay up serving 80% of the traffic, which is a notable achievement (and an open question about how well companies channel their talent into deliverables)