I realize that not everyone who is quitting/losing their job is a programmer, but those people who are programmers or engineers who are leaving aren't going to have a problem getting another job.
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Hundreds of Twitter Employees Leaving After Elon Musk's 'Extremely Hardcore' Work Demands
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Apparently security is walking around offices kicking people out.
What a train wreck.
BUT You just wait folks. When he drives up in his Cyber Truck from mars thru his super secret Hyper loop tunnel he will show us all his REAL plans!!
Well, Elon should literally fire Every Single One working in Twitter right now and hire a brand new team from scratch. That’ll solve the sabotage problem once and for all.
Someone in my timeline praised Musk for innovating on the fly. 🤣
You've never worked in Silicon Valley. It's a private company. It's not a start-up so all large share offerings have been already extended as it went from an IPO to Public Trading back to Private. Musk also took on over $15 billion in debt liability for Twitter. His plan is to reinvent Twitter, forge an IPO, go public and then recoup his own losses.
The problem is no VC will touch it.
Musk: What can I buy or do in order to maximize my tax write offs?
Accountant: You could buy a successful business that has real value and then implode it before the end of the year.
Musk: I hate how Trump was kicked off Twitter, how about if I buy it and then run it into the ground!
Accountant: That’s one way to do it but couldn’t you just donate vast sums to benefit those in need like the homeless, hungry and disadvantaged?
Musk: But that wouldn’t be very gratifying.
Accountant: You could buy a successful business that has real value and then implode it before the end of the year.
Musk: I hate how Trump was kicked off Twitter, how about if I buy it and then run it into the ground!
Accountant: That’s one way to do it but couldn’t you just donate vast sums to benefit those in need like the homeless, hungry and disadvantaged?
Musk: But that wouldn’t be very gratifying.
It’s an even bigger dumpster fire now. But Musk has so much money $44B means nothing to him.
Right because a company whose product is interpersonal and business communication can be run or saved by a hacker. Delusional thinking by Musk when he said Twitter is an engineering problem. Then went on with signal to noise technobabble. Calling those employees who expect to be treated with respect and no clown car chaos in today’s employment environment deadwood is just ignorance.
That's certainly true, but it's worth thinking about just how well Twitter executed its core purpose. I had never really thought about this before Elon came along, but the verification checkmarks worked amazingly well, and were central to the user experience. Twitter worked in large part because it let ordinary people interact with newsmakers and journalists without worrying they were being trolled or catfished in the process. If you struck up a conversation with your favorite journalist or celebrity, you were pretty certain it was actually that person on the other side. That's effectively gone now, even if Twitter somehow survives all this.
In addition, dialogues worked because of the simplicity of the whole thing. Twitter wasn't a crowded and ugly sensory jungle like Facebook, but rather something you could organize to show you what you actually wanted to see. Algorithms were there and doing their thing, but they were unobtrusive and your feed felt like something you had curated. It's hard to see how that user experience survives the new model, and it's probably not easy to replicate.
Last but not least, Twitter has become the place to find people online, and that landscape is likely to splinter quite a bit if Twitter fails.
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Then why did he took a loan from the bank?
Elon Musk acquiring Twitter for $44 billion - 9to5Mac
Elon Musk is officially acquiring Twitter in a deal valued at $44 billion. This means Twitter will become a privately held company again.
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He didn’t have enough money to buy Twitter himself solely.
Twitter going private under Musk's ownership poses challenges
Twitter going private under Elon Musk’s ownership does have a number of advantages for the billionaire, including fewer regulatory requirements...
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You might want to fact check “bought with his money”. Binance, China, and Saudi Arabia backed it. His picture in Texas opening with cowboy hat and sunglasses really looked like Jim Jones moment. He just might lose security clearances from this.
Unzip the human suit and the reptilian steps out? 😂
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LoL. Wrong!
Do you not think he will offer new stock options in his new private company to his best employees?
How lost are you?
Twitter is not going anywhere, just the latest thing for sensitive/fragile people to freak out about.
Seriously he could’ve just shut the company down. The workforce will be so gutted they’ll have to rebuild entire departments. You can’t build a ship without a crew, much less if it’s already floating in the ocean.
I don't know about you guys but Twitter is being Twitter. The usual drama, suspense and daily dose of shizz.
"People don't quit a job, they quit a boss"
and people complained about Apple employees wanting to continue working from home
Elon must not understand tech workers and what workers will and won't go for, especially if you have options.
Elon must not understand tech workers and what workers will and won't go for, especially if you have options.
The playground doesn't belong to you anymore. You have to share.
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