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Twitter Accuses Meta of Poaching Employees to Build Threads
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Just shows your bias against Elon Musk
This comment is funny! Threads is reusing Instagram accounts. Instagram has >2 billion users. 2 million is 0.1%. Not exactly amazing.
I’m no fan of Zuck, but he’s no idiot. Amoral, greedy, selfish, etc. sure. But he’s not doing idiot things like Musk is.
is it poaching when they don't really enjoy working at twitter anymore? he can't expect to gut the company, attempt to drastically change the culture and not experience a brain drain. why do people think Elon is some kind of genius?
It completely possible. Companies layoff people and hire people all the time. It depends on who they were laying off...when I worked at Verizon, they laid off more in store employees but was hiring more engineers. At the same time, they were also laying off some IT people...so yeah, you might have a case of foot in mouth disease.
It’s telling that Twitter is considering followers and following data as *their* data and not data belonging to its users.
It's very obvious that people who lean right sympathize with Musk and feel the need to defend him at every opportunity.
See? We can both play this game.
It makes me laugh how many people on here just can’t stand Elon Musk! You don’t get to be a billionaire by being stupid. Is Threads actually any good? What about Mastadon? Wasn’t that supposed to be the next big Twitter killer? People should go outside more instead of getting wound up over an app.
What trade secrets and IP ?
There are at least a dozen of Twitter clones out there (Spoutible, Post, Bluesky, the Fediverse and many others).
There are at least a dozen of Twitter clones out there (Spoutible, Post, Bluesky, the Fediverse and many others).
Found Elon Musks forum account guys!
You do if you’re born super rich…
Yeah go ahead Elon and 🔥 more 💵 with lawsuits you can’t win. If there were stupidity contests you’d have a shelf full of 🏆
Not a fan of Zuck, but I’m looking forward to see Elons face getting a hit and distorting in slow motion with botox squirting of all pores. Will be the best giphy ever made…
Not a fan of Zuck, but I’m looking forward to see Elons face getting a hit and distorting in slow motion with botox squirting of all pores. Will be the best giphy ever made…
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I defend the left’s right to express their beliefs within the law. I think the only thing Elon did was say the same for the right. Can you say the same?
Is that why he brought in subscriptions for content creators?
You do know that Twitter takes a cut of those subscriptions.
It's not like he did it out of the goodness of his heart.
The article is written incorrectly. Twitter fired it's employees and thus any company is free to hire them, therefore the line in the article
Should have been worded as 'but hiring fired employees actively looking for a job is not poaching'.
Elon fired the majority of the workforce therefore any company is free to hire them. The wording in the article should have been very very clear about this.
Should have been worded as 'but hiring fired employees actively looking for a job is not poaching'.
Elon fired the majority of the workforce therefore any company is free to hire them. The wording in the article should have been very very clear about this.
I was a bit disappointed that I had to open an Instagram account to use Threads, though I understand why. I’m not sure if Threads is right for my use, though. I mainly use Twitter as a news feed, which Instagram isn’t. So migrating everyone over from there doesn’t necessarily work for me. Let’s see how it goes. Twitter could do with the competition and a kick up the arse.
Yep that would sort everything out and make the world a better place...pfffffffft.
Remember this article? Can you imagine if Elon was really running Apple.
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Reading that thread, it was amazing to see the number of idiots who thought that Musk running Apple as CEO would be great for the company. 🤦🏾‍♂️
So the sentence “I do not love him (romantically, not platonically).” is correct?
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Never thought I’d see a thread where Zuck is the good guy.
Well, how inept can they be if they were in on "trade secrets" and Elon is complaining publicly about them working for Zuckerberg now that Threads is taking off?
Yes, I get that not every single individual Elon fired from Twitter was some top level super genius software engineer. Obvious, most were replaceable to some extent. That's how it usually is.
But there's some crazy mental gymnastics going on in your head if you insist that Elon never makes mistakes and only fired lazy, useless employees from Twitter. But then you, at the same time, support the employee poaching narrative that Elon is alleging here.
The story is either that Meta has legitimately been poaching Twitter to destroy the company by taking its top talent and trade secrets and using it to build Threads. That Elon didn't want to fire these top employees but they were bribed to work for Zuckerberg.
Or the story is that Elon did everything right throughout his Twitter takeover and he just fired a ton of useless people that are of use to nobody, neither for their skills or insider knowledge.
It can't be both at the same time. So which is it?
*Then there's also the third even more likely scenario that Elon is just being a sore loser and that his own decision to repeatedly implement more and more limitations/restrictions for both free and paid Twitter users is what's pushing droves of people to sign up for the new Twitter-clone that offers everything pre-Musk Twitter offered with none of the limitations and subscription fees of 2023 Twitter? Plus it's backed by one of the biggest players in tech and social, Meta?
I wouldn't say "good guy". This is just about money.
But when one business repeatedly fails to deliver the product that it's success was built upon, the product that consumers want and other businesses want to partner with, then obviously any other party stepping in and delivering that product deserves the win.
Elon checkmated himself with his ever-changing stance on Twitter's direction and failure to understand its core strengths as a platform/business. Zuck just moved in to end the game.
There’s movement in the federal system to rule that non compete clauses are illegal.