Those replies are pretty great. The format of Instagram prohibits it from being the elite consensus and propaganda machine that Twitter is. They seem to think the complete destruction of a leftist fortress and fleeing to a dinghy orgy pit in the woods would somehow be a win for them. That's all based on the assumption that Elon isn't capable of keeping it going, and, if he does, it's going to be a good opportunity for ourguys who got cancelled or want to tell their current woke employer to fist themselves.
It's extremely hard to do now what Reddit did to Digg or Facebook to MySpace. The freedom and newness of social media then made it far easier to poach normies and achieve critical mass.
Assuming the rise and fall of social media networks has been completely natural instead of being guided by three letter agencies, their investors, and media influencers.
Assuming the service still runs, Elon just increased or kept income static with the twitter blue subscription to replace advertisers that were chased away and slashed 80% or so of payroll costs.
The ones that left will find out how hard it is to get a job on short notice for a hire who's only skill is diversity in a diversity-saturated industry. Like Google is going to hire some Twitter reject? Ha ha.
...and in 2 months they'll be begging for their job back at 1/4 the pay, but the actual workers will have shown how they're not even worth that.
Interesting that’s about 900ish people out of the original 7500. Consider Elon said that for every 1 person doing coding there were 10 ppl watching him code, it sounds like he got rid of a lot of those 10 ppl
I used to visit r/programmerhumor, which was never really funny but it was worth a smirk every now and then.
The entire sub is just an Elon hatefest at this point. He'll say something slightly incorrect and the entire sub starts jacking each other off about how Musk has no idea what he's doing and he's going to destroy Twitter with his own incompetence, etc. Of course, they know exactly how Twitter should be run and could easily do it themselves if The Man wasn't holding them back.
Then they go back to posting memes about how they don't understand recursion because it's super hard.
Easiest thing to do is shutter the HQ entirely and have everybody work from home. Small, local, distributed HQ's can be arranged where necessary, but a website does not need a huge HQ
It's not that they don't want to live there. California is nice if you're making $400k.
It's that their social life would suffer. No more invites to the weekly orgies for the Elon employees.
He should move to somewhere where people who work for him aren't socially ostracized.
That would be pretty much anywhere besides California, even NYC has a fairly centrist tech scene, and a culture where it's normal to work in any number of industries the left dislikes.
I suspect the main issue is that he doesn't want to take those self-landing-rocket software engineer and waste them on Twitter - it'd be much easier for him if Twitter staff could just stop being entitled whiny princesses.
Of course, that assumes that "stopping being whiny entitled princesses" is something that they are capable of.
I read this comment and then stared off into the distant past, remembering how many times basic maintenance hadn't been done on a project I did. There's a reason IT people drink.
Facebook was so transparently a fad, but everyone acts like they were some sort of for of nature because they made billions of dollars. To their credit, they have tried to get into things that have more staying power, but they're not any good at them.
One thing I was gonna post about that's tangentially related to this is: We haven't seen a lot of Donald Trump doing what he does best. He may come out and blow people's socks off like he did in 2016. I personally find it an interesting coincidence that Trump's best tool (likely) comes back online for him right after he announces another run. But even if he just delivers the spice in speeches that get reported by the Daily Caller to the masses, I think he is a force to be reckoned with -- when he gets going. My impression is he's been lying low.
Good, now maybe the ones left will do their actual jobs instead of having 24/7 struggle sessions.
It'd be hilarious if Elon came out and said, "I bought it just to destroy it. It was clearly an unsalvageable blight on the Internet."
These fuckwits are so used to destroying things that other people love. Turnabout is fair play.
LMAO the mad lad just tweeted this.
RIP
Spez: I can't tell but he might have deleted it. The internet never forgets.
Those replies are pretty great. The format of Instagram prohibits it from being the elite consensus and propaganda machine that Twitter is. They seem to think the complete destruction of a leftist fortress and fleeing to a dinghy orgy pit in the woods would somehow be a win for them. That's all based on the assumption that Elon isn't capable of keeping it going, and, if he does, it's going to be a good opportunity for ourguys who got cancelled or want to tell their current woke employer to fist themselves.
If there's a will, there will be a way. Twitter's modern incarnation is nothing like its first existence, after all.
It's extremely hard to do now what Reddit did to Digg or Facebook to MySpace. The freedom and newness of social media then made it far easier to poach normies and achieve critical mass.
Assuming the rise and fall of social media networks has been completely natural instead of being guided by three letter agencies, their investors, and media influencers.
Also reddit only got a lucky break, digg killed itself.
I find it almost impossible to create a new account on reddit without it getting automatically banned by their algorithms and blocked from posting.
The Zucc just fired 11k people. Why do they think Instagram would be hiring?
When you're trying to chop down the excess in a company, slackers and grifters self-selecting for exclusion seems like it's only a net benefit.
when the trash takes itself out
3/4 would be a good start
Assuming the service still runs, Elon just increased or kept income static with the twitter blue subscription to replace advertisers that were chased away and slashed 80% or so of payroll costs.
The ones that left will find out how hard it is to get a job on short notice for a hire who's only skill is diversity in a diversity-saturated industry. Like Google is going to hire some Twitter reject? Ha ha.
...and in 2 months they'll be begging for their job back at 1/4 the pay, but the actual workers will have shown how they're not even worth that.
This 'journalist' (lol) is just repeating hearsay.
Interesting that’s about 900ish people out of the original 7500. Consider Elon said that for every 1 person doing coding there were 10 ppl watching him code, it sounds like he got rid of a lot of those 10 ppl
What hardcore email?
He supposedly sent an email saying Twitter was unsalvageable and he was looking for people to bust their ass building Twitter 2.0.
I'd be asking: "And what are you going to do for me?"
There's a lot of tech jobs where I can work lazily, especially these days.
If he can answer that, like, "Hey I'm going to issue you all a bunch of stock options and we are going to kill it against market suckers", sure.
They're going to find out there are Trump voters who can type ./start_service.sh on a computer too.
Amazing, isn't it?
The man manages engineers who outperform NASA, but people think he can't manage twitter.
It's the dunning kruger effect.
I used to visit r/programmerhumor, which was never really funny but it was worth a smirk every now and then.
The entire sub is just an Elon hatefest at this point. He'll say something slightly incorrect and the entire sub starts jacking each other off about how Musk has no idea what he's doing and he's going to destroy Twitter with his own incompetence, etc. Of course, they know exactly how Twitter should be run and could easily do it themselves if The Man wasn't holding them back.
Then they go back to posting memes about how they don't understand recursion because it's super hard.
Easiest thing to do is shutter the HQ entirely and have everybody work from home. Small, local, distributed HQ's can be arranged where necessary, but a website does not need a huge HQ
It's not that they don't want to live there. California is nice if you're making $400k.
It's that their social life would suffer. No more invites to the weekly orgies for the Elon employees.
He should move to somewhere where people who work for him aren't socially ostracized.
That would be pretty much anywhere besides California, even NYC has a fairly centrist tech scene, and a culture where it's normal to work in any number of industries the left dislikes.
Musk is already in the process of moving SpaceX and Tesla to Texas. It'd make sense to move Twitter there too.
I suspect the main issue is that he doesn't want to take those self-landing-rocket software engineer and waste them on Twitter - it'd be much easier for him if Twitter staff could just stop being entitled whiny princesses.
Of course, that assumes that "stopping being whiny entitled princesses" is something that they are capable of.
Easier said than done
I read this comment and then stared off into the distant past, remembering how many times basic maintenance hadn't been done on a project I did. There's a reason IT people drink.
Facebook was so transparently a fad, but everyone acts like they were some sort of for of nature because they made billions of dollars. To their credit, they have tried to get into things that have more staying power, but they're not any good at them.
One thing I was gonna post about that's tangentially related to this is: We haven't seen a lot of Donald Trump doing what he does best. He may come out and blow people's socks off like he did in 2016. I personally find it an interesting coincidence that Trump's best tool (likely) comes back online for him right after he announces another run. But even if he just delivers the spice in speeches that get reported by the Daily Caller to the masses, I think he is a force to be reckoned with -- when he gets going. My impression is he's been lying low.