Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter
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@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Anyone notice that Musk has been really, uncharacteristically, quiet for 24 hours?
Busy
cutting dealspalling around with Jared and the Arabs while watching the World Cup final? There is a thread on that, right? -
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/20/twitter-is-down-to-fewer-than-550-full-time-engineers.html
Twitter employee head count down by 80% since Elon Musk took over. Has 1300 employees now with 550 "engineers" (by title) among them.
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Interesting.
I won't even try to pretend the implications of this. However, the platform is up and appears to be functioning pretty much as always.
Yeah, there's bugs, and changes to under-the-hood stuff, but it appears that, unlike predictions, it has survived.
At least for now.
Related, how are Truth Social, Mastodon, WeMe, and Parler doing?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Related, how are Truth Social, Mastodon, WeMe, and Parler doing?
Truth social is amazing. Just so amazing. Truly. It's been really, really great, and it has all the best people. Just the best. I could give you the numbers, but you wouldn't believe me because they're so amazing.
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“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Education is extremely important.
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@Horace said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Really sad to see how tribal he’s become. Fox News captures another ideological prisoner.
Yeah, but Carlson was never that great to begin with.
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@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
@Renauda said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Some wicked witch turned Phibes into a Trump like troll!
No shit! Look at his avatar!
That's not Tucker, it's his twin brother, Magnus. He's so amazing. And really, really smart. Like a stable genius. He cleans out the horses so well, like really really well.
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What else is broken at Twitter?
https://www.propublica.org/article/politwoops-deleted-tweets-twitter-politicians-musk
Politicians haven’t stopped deleting some of their most cringeworthy tweets, but Politwoops, our project that has tracked and archived more than half a million deleted tweets from candidates and elected officials since 2012, is no longer able to track them.
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, the platform has disabled the function we used to track deletions — and the new method that Twitter says should identify them appears to be broken. We have been unable to find anyone who can help us, and with Twitter surprising developers by announcing a move to a paid model for gathering tweet data, it’s no longer clear that Twitter is a stable platform on which to maintain this work. ...
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Another round of job cuts at Twitter:
"At least 50" people were let go this time.
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Yet another Twitter outage:
"... the sixth major outage since January 23." ...
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Ax, are you on Twitter? How do you use it?
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Ax, are you on Twitter? How do you use it?
This is me:
This is me on Twitter:
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https://www.thestreet.com/technology/elon-musk-suffers-a-huge-loss
Elon Musk now values Twitter at $20 Billion.
(Any one willing to buy Twitter at $20 Billion?)
Musk also says he sees a path to $250 Billion valuation years from now. -
@Axtremus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
Musk also says he sees a path to $250 Billion valuation years from now.
Presumably that path doesn't involve him selling it to somebody who knows what they're doing?
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Twitter no long exists as a company. It has been absorbed by X Corp.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/tech/elon-musk-bbc-interview-twitter-intl-hnk/index.html
80% cut in staff headcount
Musk claims (what's formerly known as) Twitter is now "breaking even" and advertisers are coming back. -
@Axtremus said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
80% cut in staff headcount
Musk claims (what's formerly known as) Twitter is now "breaking even" and advertisers are coming back.One has to wonder...from and end-user standpoint Twitter is little-changed from what it was a year ago.
Yea, there have been changes as to policy, procedures, etc. Changes in "blue checks" and all that other crap have occurred. But, my experience is not very different from it was a year ago.
So, one has to wonder, what were those 80% doing? Were they doing computer preventive maintenance? Were they "innovating?" The platform seems to be just fine.
