It is completely ridiculous to believe a worldwide enterprise supporting billions of users managing untold number of servers and lines of code to manage
Will function with less than 25% of their workforce. Apple has this number working on Apple Car.
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Will function with less than 25% of their workforce. Apple has this number working on Apple Car.
don't know the actual numbers, but spending $40B to get $10B in tax savings isn't exactly a great financial move. Elon's just a narcissistic idiot who made a bad deal based off emotions and bravado. twitter was built well and maintained well. firing most the engineers is just going to start accumulating all these problems which will keep stacking up. the writing is on the wall for twitter.
His blind supports can’t see the train wreckage until it’s too late. With 400 million active daily users their support team gets to handle 2 million accounts each. Not realistic
It's been done before, but the ones who pulled it off had a clear vision, a real plan, and steady leadership for how they were going to stay afloat while going lean to conserve cash. Netflix is a good example of a company that actually got better by laying off a huge chunk of their workforce when they were looking at the possibility of running out of money.
However, anyone who understands that story to mean that cutting staff is the ideal move you can make to become an exciting company again is completely missing the point. Randomly blowing up chunks of your organization is not the same thing as a strategic restructuring and realignment of priorities.
You mean Elon Musk's credibility?
Now run the numbers for Apple devices/services and support.
You may very well be right, but you are making broad assumptions about a multi-billion dollar business that I assume you have no direct knowledge about how it should be run.
I bailed on Twitter when Musky took over. Don't miss it at all.
The good employees are the ones that have left the building. The ones that remain are the ones that could not find a job in a different company.
You might be shocked at who is on this site. There is a reason why most people don't use their own names.
Left Twitter for Mastodon months ago, after being on the Platform for something like 14 years. No regrets, Mastodon is fantastic.
That's what happens when you get rid of everyone smarter than you who made the platform what it was...
He really paid $44 Billion for Twitter just to kill it. Truly a terrible CEO.
He really paid $44 Billion for Twitter just to kill it. Truly a terrible CEO.
Fortunately, the outage only lasted a few hours. Was fully back up by 4:30 am Pacific time today. I remember sometimes in the old days the outage for last seven hours or more. 😒
Sorry but it is very easy to stick to the feed you want, if you leave it on following that is where it stays, there are some tweets that are ads but you can block them if you want, what you are saying is just false, If you do not like a comment someone makes block them and you never have to see them again, sorry but wherever you go to intercat there will be things said you do not like, it is ok, you will survive, just block those people
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Enjoy it while it lasts, maybe you can try truth social next, I hear that is up and coming also 😆
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Musk every single day:
(all his trolling, race baiting, lies and acting like a jerk is to disguise his salty tears and childhood trauma which will never be fixed with any amount of money)
I hope Elon figures out a way to profit from all the rent free space he has in your collective heads!
Isn’t everyone that remains, toxic, though? Because, anyone with marketable skills left a long time ago and the only ones still there are just doing and saying what’s required to get their next paycheck (which isn’t guaranteed to work).
I hope so, too. Maybe then he can start paying HIS rent
A bit of virality? These days being “noticed” is the key, regardless of why it’s happening.
You mean that it's just now occurring to you that people here have lives and jobs outside of these forums?
People talk about f-you money, well Musk certainly has that-- there's no indication he cares how this turns out. He's only in for a fraction of the cost anyway.
I don't think a write-off is the strategy, but I think he got trapped by his own hubris into making a purchase he doesn't want and doesn't care about. He decided to shoot his mouth off, over stepped, found he had no real way back without losing money and more importantly face, so he borrowed a lot of other people's money, put up some overinflated Tesla stock, and took it over.
Ever since it's been a vanity project that's more about scoring points and internet fame than it is about actually succeeding in the business, as far as I can tell.
It's clear everyone around him, especially Tesla's investors who are the real victims here, wish he'd just spend more time managing Twitter and less time using it.