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Comments like these make me wonder if people don't understand the difference between engineering and business.
by sidcool 21d ago
Comments like these make me wonder if people don't understand the difference between engineering and business.
- InterviewFrog 21d agoThat’s what they said about Elon firing 80% of Twitter’s staff. But X is doing pretty well.
- Twisell 21d agoTwitter was never a profitable business. You actually renforce his point. (Maybe that was intended I might have missed some irony here)
- saagarjha 21d agoI'm not sure why people keep repeating this when Twitter was profitable at the point that Elon bought it.
- mitxela 21d agoFor some definition of pretty well which doesn't include human user numbers, revenue, profit, or ratio of humans to bots
- hn993302 21d agoPretty well from an engineering perspective. But they've lost so many advertisers because it's intentionally not very moderated.
- mitxela 21d agoThe site is currently running, yes. Don't forget it went down quite often immediately following the mass firing though. They seem to have fixed that. There was certainly a ton of bloat to trim, but the haphazard "just pick 80% of the people and fire them" was incredibly stupid. Should have chosen whoever was producing the bloat, at least.
- TuringTest 21d agoPretty well if you don't mind some features being built twice or three times and appearing inconsistently at different screens, or users being able to bypass usage limits by pressing the back button on the usage limit sign...
- mitxela 21d agoThe usage limit is trying to block scrapers and xcancel. It's already reset by the time your cursor gets to the back button.
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- gib444 21d agoI'd be shocked if a ton of contractors haven't worked for X since then
- moomoo11 21d agomost people don’t. that’s why they are employees.