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Twitter Accuses Meta of Poaching Employees to Build Threads
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There's nothin' you can do that can't be done
Nothin' you can say, but you can learn how to play the game
Nothin' you can make that can't be made
Nothin' you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time
There's nothin' you can know that isn't known
Nothin' you can see that isn't shown
Nothin' you can do if it’s not covered by a patent or NDA.
It’s easy.
Nothin' you can say, but you can learn how to play the game
Nothin' you can make that can't be made
Nothin' you can do, but you can learn how to be you in time
There's nothin' you can know that isn't known
Nothin' you can see that isn't shown
Nothin' you can do if it’s not covered by a patent or NDA.
It’s easy.
This is why I think he loved buying Twitter despite all the things he has done to it. He LOVES the attention it’s given him.
Just a reminder that just because Musk is the bad guy, doesn’t make Zuck the good guy; there can be two bad guys. By all means enjoy the schadenfreude, but know that even if Musk is the problem, Mark Zuckerberg isn’t the answer.
Denied them severance initially, then shortchanged them by offering 1 month instead of 3 months as originally announced. Finally, forced them to waive their right to sue in order to receive that 1 month.
Out of curiosity, why do you think Twitter had the world’s smartest software engineers? I‘m sure they were very good, but there are a lot of software engineers doing things that defy comprehension and Twitter is, well, a micro-messaging platform.
Remember this article? Can you imagine if Elon was really running Apple.
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“The iPhone 15 pro emerald edition
Occasionally spontaneously combusts, crashes, and sends you notifications daily from Musk that you cannot turn off with him complaining about how terrible white supremacy has been treated by the MSM.”
Threads looks like a really rough version of the current Twitter, trying to take advantage of the installed Instagram user base. But still no thank you.
🍿 bring it all, this should be entertaining ☠️
That's not exactly true--any junior programmer could single handedly write a Twitter clone with a bad backend that doesn't scale.
Conceptually the structure of Twitter is easy, but like anything of the sort there's a lot going on that isn't obvious or even visible to the user. And more to the point, even if it really was that simple, building a platform that can support hundreds of millions of user interactions per day requires a lot of people with an uncommon skillset and a huge amount of experience using it.
You're right that those things aren't trade secrets, though--they're what you get from years of working at a company doing those tasks and honing that skillset.
It's like building a modern car--it's conceptually simple, but there's a lot of moving parts there and a lot of backend that make it happen efficiently, so actually executing the process isn't anywhere near as easy as it seems. Also like designing a car though, anybody can take the thing apart down to the last bolt, so there's no magical trade secrets involved in the process, it's just that actually executing it well is something that requires a lot of talent and experience that you mostly gain by doing.
Didn’t the musk fire loads of people? I can’t use the thing as not available to me but who actually gives a ****. Is twitter a protected idea ? No. Is it easily copied yes. I don’t actually give a rats ass about social media but seems to overtake the public discourse and so be it. The world is what it is. ****ed.
I did what any sane person should have done, blocked him. If you are really sane, you’d delete your account to avoid his ugly face 🤣
I highly doubt Meta’s claim that no one on the Threads engineering team was a former Twitter employee. Sounds like another bold-faced lie from Meta. They had to have at least hired some former Twitter contractors, which would technically make their statement true.
::crossing fingers:: Twitter and Meta take each other out with this battle. Would be a win-win for humanity.
::crossing fingers:: Twitter and Meta take each other out with this battle. Would be a win-win for humanity.
Nah. It’s just a couple of girls having a slap fight. Nothing more.
Elon fired 90% of the workforce, then decided to arbitrarily piss off his userbase by limiting & paywalling features. What does that narcissistic man-child expect?
Regardless, it is a tad suspicious that those workers are used to duplicate the product of their former employer.
Poaching employees? Or just giving jobs to the hundreds of people Twitter paid off? 🤔
Hope’s spring is eternal. I keep wishing they go the way of MySpace each time time there’s a scandal.
You know, it kind of strikes me this way.
Things that Musk starts on his own? Largely successful. And one of his skills seems to be in being able to create teams that buy into the vision and make things happen.
Musk didn't start Twitter. In fact, IMO, he totally misjudged what Twitter even IS. He thought it was the Town Square when it's more like the Roman Colosseum with gladiator fights 24/7. He didn't make the teams at Twitter so he doesn't know them, their talents or their value and thought he could "remake it in his own image".
Well, as a software engineer and architect in 6 decades (starting in the 1970s) I can tell you that new software development is WAY different from inheriting code and doing maintenance and development on it. IMO, if Musk really wanted the "Town Square", he should have made one himself. Lord knows, a new venture could hardly be worse than the net effect of what's been happening at Twitter.
Things that Musk starts on his own? Largely successful. And one of his skills seems to be in being able to create teams that buy into the vision and make things happen.
Musk didn't start Twitter. In fact, IMO, he totally misjudged what Twitter even IS. He thought it was the Town Square when it's more like the Roman Colosseum with gladiator fights 24/7. He didn't make the teams at Twitter so he doesn't know them, their talents or their value and thought he could "remake it in his own image".
Well, as a software engineer and architect in 6 decades (starting in the 1970s) I can tell you that new software development is WAY different from inheriting code and doing maintenance and development on it. IMO, if Musk really wanted the "Town Square", he should have made one himself. Lord knows, a new venture could hardly be worse than the net effect of what's been happening at Twitter.