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Twitter Accuses Meta of Poaching Employees to Build Threads
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I seriously doubt that the world's smartest software engineers were working at Twitter. Twitter has been a dumpster fire long before Elon.
Normally I find actions from Mark Zuckerberg as near-to-evil, but this time I give him credits. Elon Musk is pissed off because he wanted to hire back some of them, at a fraction of their original salary. Mark’s latest move simply disrupted that evil plan of Elon.
Twitter needs to just die already. Also, expecting Elon to act like a man is unrealistic. He's a little boy.
Linda Yaccarino started her job as Twitter's new CEO a month ago today
Twitter's new CEO Linda Yaccarino logs first day in role
Twitter's new Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino has begun her role at the social media company, she tweeted late on Monday, about a month after Elon Musk named her as the new CEO.
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I don't think she's going to be able to do anything. She's going to have to run every single decision by Elon before anything.Linda Yaccarino started her job as Twitter's new CEO a month ago today
Twitter's new CEO Linda Yaccarino logs first day in role
Twitter's new Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino has begun her role at the social media company, she tweeted late on Monday, about a month after Elon Musk named her as the new CEO.www.reuters.com
Bottomline: Elon hired her for the books and to process the administrative work.
“Billionaire burns down house and then blames exothermic reactions”
and to be the Fall Person when the 💩 hits the eventual fan and they have to close shop.
How do you poach employees that you've fired?
Answer: You can't.
Answer: You can't.
The employees you fired got new jobs, suck it Elon.
Man a scenario where I don’t want Facebook to lose. Yup, hell has frozen over.
Man a scenario where I don’t want Facebook to lose. Yup, hell has frozen over.
Sorry, that should say NOT considered poaching. I've fixed it.
So, summarizing Musk's stance:
"You spent your whole career getting good at building a social media website and I fired you because you weren't really doing anything important and cost too much to hire, how dare you go to work for another company using all those unnecessary skills that I don't need!"
"You spent your whole career getting good at building a social media website and I fired you because you weren't really doing anything important and cost too much to hire, how dare you go to work for another company using all those unnecessary skills that I don't need!"
Be fair here, he made it pay-to-play so that probably made it more expensive to run an effective astroturfing campaign. Plus, the less relevant Twitter is, the less point there is in running fake accounts and bots, and he seems to be doing everything he can to make that happen.
Remember this article? Can you imagine if Elon was really running Apple.
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Elon Musk Reportedly Demanded to Become Apple CEO as Part of Potential Tesla Acquisition [Update: Musk Denies]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly once demanded that he be made Apple CEO in a brief discussion of a potential acquisition with Apple's current CEO,...www.macrumors.com
Well, bless Elmo's heart.
That may be the single smartest thing Cook has said/done as CEO.
People aren't robots.
When you fire everyone from Twitter in a demeaning, chainsaw-style, midnight massacre, those employees will remember it for a long time. They may even hold a grudge and not just by posting bad reviews on Glassdoor.
Zuckerberg may be dirty, but at this point, people simply hate Elon more. I wouldn't be surprised if those ex-Twitter employees put in extra effort at Meta just to bulldoze Elon.
When you fire everyone from Twitter in a demeaning, chainsaw-style, midnight massacre, those employees will remember it for a long time. They may even hold a grudge and not just by posting bad reviews on Glassdoor.
Zuckerberg may be dirty, but at this point, people simply hate Elon more. I wouldn't be surprised if those ex-Twitter employees put in extra effort at Meta just to bulldoze Elon.
Most of them were fairly incompetent to begin with, so the extra effort might not be a good thing...
Like the other competitors, this will flash high and then fizzle out once more.
There seems to be a clear propensity of Mr. Musk to adopt a unilateral decision-making approach, promptly instructing his remaining engineering staff to enact his directives. For instance, the implementation of rate limiting measures, I speculate, could very well have been decreed without due deliberation with a trusted cadre of advisers. This could account for the frequent modifications to the objective during the course of the weekend, as unforeseen complications arose.
Regardless of who assumes the role of CEO, it appears this modus operandi is unlikely to chnage.
elonʻs scared. otherwise he wouldnʻt care...
Perfectly said. I am a Tesla and SpaceX fan, but what Elon did to those employees was utterly messed up. He deserves every bit of what’s happening, and more. I’m thoroughly enjoying this schadenfreude, and I’m 100% rooting for those employees.
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In less than 24 hours, they have managed to amass a user base constituting 10% of Twitter's estimated total. If I were to put myself in Musk's position, a sense of consternation would not be unwarranted. The worth of his investment stands on the precipice of another substantial depreciation.
I think it's gonna do great for exactly that reason, it's got a built in user base that's very influencer/celeb/fan centric and the advertising money will follow.
Certain heavy Twitter users such as journalists and people who enjoying venting off about politics are far less likely to move across, and that's only to Threads benefit tbh as it will keep a lot of toxicity away. In fact from what I can tell Threads has been specifically designed not to attract those people and I think that's a kinda genius move, which is both ironic and hilarious given how 'Mr Genius' has been carrying on at Twitter this past 9 months.
End of the day I'm quite happy using neither and snarking from the sidelines in occasional forum posts like a massive know it all 👍👍
I'm not sure what Elon Musk was expecting when he fired a bunch of people, but you think he'd have somehow seen this coming 🤔
LMAO You don’t need to steal trade secrets to build a twitter clone. The whole concept is very simple to replicate in a technical level. Any junior programmer could single handedly write a twitter clone.