For the average user, spam and bots are probably not an issue. But when you have ~100 million followers and talk about crypto, you probably have a distorted view of what most people experience. I only have ~100 followers, so I'm not saying my experience is typical either, but I mostly just look at my timeline in chronological order, and replies, so I have almost no issues.
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Hundreds of Twitter Employees Leaving After Elon Musk's 'Extremely Hardcore' Work Demands
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You're giving Elon way too much credit. He changes his mind on the same thing 3 times a day for 2 weeks straight. He's no genius.
He's taking out the trash and replacing it with people who want to work.
He is a hardcore. He will fire everyone from Twitter, fly to Mars by himself and then open new Twitter to communicate with Martians. It’s all part of the plan.
I think a lot of the people who think Musk buying Twitter was some great victory for free speech haven't considered that a ton of what people use Twitter for has absolutely nothing to do with US politics.
“Forcing them to work in the office”
How entitled do you have to be to be offended that you’re expected to work at the place you work.
Did you forget? It's not a publicly traded company any more. It's a privately owned company. The biggest owners-investors are Elon himself and his several banking accomplices. They have nobody else left to short and screw but themselves.
Wow, I hadn’t even thought of the holidays but you’re right! The timing makes this go from bad to worse. Ugh. Elon seems to be someone not worth working with.
A lot of those folks have difficulty with the concept of anything outside the US, period
Ahh, it all makes perfect sense now. Twitter was going to have problems servicing debt payments greater than its net income, then advertising revenue tanked. But Musk clearly has a plan--get rid of the entire workforce! Once you pay for power and network access, it's all profit!
I'm sure there is no down side to this plan.
I'm sure there is no down side to this plan.
Isn’t it crazy? It’s almost like they are rooting for an emotionless terrible human to win.
Shhhh, don’t let your facts get in the way of these Elon worshippers.
I deactivated my account immediately.
It’s almost like you’ve got no idea of what you’re talking about. How about the awful working conditions for the manufacturing employees at Tesla plants? Numerous lawsuits regarding pay and treatment prove you wrong.
Seriously, do 5 seconds of research.
What an ignorant comment. Just because people don’t want to work 70-80 hour week (for the pay of 40) doesn’t mean they don’t want to work or are dead weight.
The part you are skipping is the part where the new boss gets the lay of the land. Musk is shooting from hip and doing it half-cocked all the while trying to be a modern day Ebenezer Scrooge.
You gotta love the hypocrisy of claiming he bought Twitter to save it because free speech is important and the minute somebody criticizes him by showing the foolishness of his $8 verification he bans them. And if an employee criticizes him on Twitter he bans and fires them. But let’s make sure cyber bullies and pushes of fake news get their say because that is the really important speech to keep free.
Moreover, it does not matter what sort of technical innovations you bring to Twitter if the user base and advertisers have all fled.
I work from a home office. I'm expected to work at the place I work, which is my home.
It sounds like some people here are offended that others don't have to jump through unnecessary hoops that they do, such as commuting.
... and what's being drained out of that swamp is being sent directly into Twitter's San Francisco office
According to the NLRB, SpaceX employees were exposed to his bullying too. If you haven't eaten all your popcorn 🍿, click that link and read the story.
So buy Twitter for $44 Billon of mainly other peoples money then shoot yourself in the foot repeatedly bullying your new employees (and customers). Sure you can replace the key people that left who if like other companies I worked probably had job offers by the time they got home. The hard part is no matter who you get it's going to time for them to get up to speed on the systems. That is time Elon doesn't have because of his other Twitter game playing he's been doing.
Hundreds of Twitter employees today resigned from the company rather than opting in to be part of "Twitter 2.0" under Elon Musk, according to The Verge. Musk earlier this week told workers that Twitter will be "extremely hardcore" going forward, with employees expected to put in long hours at high intensity. "Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade," he said.
Musk on Wednesday sent out a Google form and asked employees to respond "Yes" by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday if they wanted to stay at the company. Hundreds decided not to, and have said their goodbyes in Slack and on Twitter. Departing employees will receive a severance package.
When he took over Twitter, Musk laid off approximately half of the 7,500 employees that were at the company at the time, and since then, he has continued firing employees who have been critical of him, including longtime engineers.
Twitter employees that spoke to The Verge said that given the number of people that have left, Twitter could "start breaking soon" and that it will be "extremely hard for Twitter to recover."
With the exodus of employees, Twitter temporarily closed all office buildings and suspended badge access. According to Zoë Schiffer, Musk and his team are "terrified employees are going to sabotage the company."
In the final hours ahead of the deadline, Musk reportedly attempted to convince employees to stay. Bloomberg says that key staff were brought into meetings and Musk also walked back his in-office work demands. He had said that all employees needed to work from the office 40 hours a week, but today he said that working from home was allowed with monthly in-person meetings and managerial approval.
At the current time, Musk's first initiative is on pause as Twitter makes changes. Last week, Twitter introduced a more expensive $8 version of Twitter Blue that included a verification badge, and it turned out that debuting widespread verification led to account impersonation that impacted numerous companies.
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The only thing that makes sense why Elon is shooting himself in both feet I've read is if Twitter falls apart and has to declare bankruptcy that can work in Elon and his investors favor it lets them negotiate down Twitters debt and buy them time. Elon could be tanking Twitter intentionally to get out of debt while screwing small companies that extended credit to Twitter.
Since when an allegation automatically became the truth? And I don’t know which plant you are talking about, but you wanna talk about harsh working condition? Haven’t you seen the working condition at Foxconn and other Apple manufacturers?
Of course, you will argue that Foxconn is not Apple, but phone manufacturing and auto manufacturing are completely different. There are reasons why auto assembly is not extensively outsourced.
Do you even know how many lawsuits Apple have on their hands? Why don’t you do 5 seconds of research? Companies get sued all the time for various reasons, and those lawsuits are not barometers for bad companies.
Twitter is better in terms of free speech not only for US. Especially compared to Facebook where everything is “violating community standards”.
Kill Twitter. Please. Then Kill FB. (Meta) The world would be better off.
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