Elon Musk
Elon Musk
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- Last post 3 hours ago
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- NBQ000
Elon Musk is using Trump's Twitter tactics. We know how this ends.
Huge debt. Conspiracy tweets. Media feuds. Too many outrages at once. Did Twitter's new owner take the wrong lesson from the Trump era? Did we?
- whatthefunk1
I worry about Dataminr, a AI startup that Twitter owns a piece of which is the only company that has access to ALL OF TWITTER'S DATA (known as the firehose) which is then sold to government agencies, the white house, CIA, and other countries so that security forces can aggregate user data and get real time alerting to natural disasters, events, etc. - just look at how this access was weaponized during BLM protests, https://theintercept.com/2020/07…
Police departments the world over have access to all this twitter user data which they use to target citizens, wonder how Musky is going to further monetize that org
https://www.dataminr.com/- my latest tweets were about how in and out is largely overrated and that Carl's junior had a decent burger way back in 1995...jonny_quest_lives
- so i am hoping insights like that wreck Elon's investment.jonny_quest_lives
- The Habit is making tangible gains on the Southern California Burger Wars if anyone is interested.jonny_quest_lives
- nb0
Pretty sure my company is waiting for the initial chaos to settle and then we’re going to try to hire all the best people we can from the twitter layoffs.
The idea that “only the best of the best” kept their jobs is absurd. We all know how downsizing goes. It’s a lot of political bullshit and shitty managers will throw good people under the bus to protect themselves.
No doubt that even many of the people who are staying on are already thinking about when they’ll leave.
Yes, twitter can operate on a smaller budget, but the best people want to work cushy jobs, not work for slave-driver Elon asking everyone to give their life to the corporate cause. Luuuulz Elon. Lulz
- If you're not sleeping under the desk like Elonz you're not grindiiiing!PhanLo
- I’m confident the best will leave voluntarily on top of the layoffs.monospaced
- I hope Twitter will crash and burn********
- used twitter ages ago for about 2 months before i'd had enough of trying it. recently looked at again, don't get it. at least on youtube or reddit comments areshapesalad
- under a post. twitter, you get some comments, an advert, recommended posts and as you scroll down it's so infuriating.shapesalad
- Plus i always mistake the 'reply' button under a tweet as the 'comments' button. When you do press reply, the UI goes over the post, shows no comments.shapesalad
- what the fuck is that, total shit UI/UX experience. Seems to be only for true twitter twits that get off on trying to squeeze a message into 280 characters.shapesalad
- QBN leads the way with it's 160 character comment limitjonny_quest_lives
- in a downsize like this you get rid of middle management, not engineers
and there are tons of people willing to work to solve social moderationgrafician - You think 75% of the company was middle management?nb
- Engineers are the most important role because you can’t do anything without them... but they’re incapable of being self-directed. If left alone, they just sit.nb
- with due respect, wtf are you even on about?!
Elon can cut everybody minus 2-3K engineers and hire moderationgrafician - twitter is social moderation full stop
you need people to run the stack and moderate the fucking tweets
everybody else is expendable in a private companygrafician - Elon solved EVs with Tesla, solved cheap space travel with SpaceX and it will solve online social moderation with twitter or die tryinggrafician
- SO if you think your company is hiring the best people leaving from twitter you're in for a laught
only people leaving is the dead weightgrafician - Elon fired top management for cause, remember that ;)grafician
- And he is also bringing back Vine from the dead to crush Tiktok wait and see
Engineers are already in the old code trying to get it back till end of year lolgrafician - So yeah the audacity your comp is waiting to hire the best leaving from twitter
SMH lolgrafician - Do you personally know anyone at twitter? Work with any ex-twitter folks? I do, lots. I’ve worked with them.nb
- I’ve worked for twitter. Graf, you’re a keyboard warrior posting from Romania. You have no idea what US biz is really like.nb
- I’m sure you’ve watched many YouTube vloggers talking shit about it. Blind leading the blind.nb
- Also “Elon solved cheap space travel”? Wtf when did he do that hahahaha.nb
- Tesla apparently has been lying hard about fully automated driving. For years... hmmm right around the time Elon arrived at Tesla...nb
- ...and demanded he be hired with the title “founder.” What he did for electric cars is cool but he’s also full of shit.nb
- Society needed a cunt like him to go up against big auto. I won’t deny him that. Amazing result. Now, everyone else needs to run with the ball.nb
- So all this 'cuz you're hurting for your twitter buddies?grafician
- It's more laughable that you worked there but don't know what twitter is, or how it's perceived as a comp both in the markets and/or by its usersgrafician
- And yes Elon solved cheap space travel, that's reusable infrastructure. I didn't say personal space travel but probably will acomplish that shit toografician
- I'm retraining as a therapist graf, would you be one of my case studies for final paper? It would be confidential.fadein11
- nb1
I can hardly wait to be a famous or notable person for the low low cost of $8 / month. Lulzorz
- You don't buy a blue checkmark with 8/month, you gotta be verified first then pay to keep it
It's rather simplegrafician - And if twitter insiders didn't turned that feature into a racket guess Elon wouldn't care about it enough to change the behaviourgrafician
- Elon Musk is a donkeyPhanLo
- More info here: https://www.ign.com/…grafician
- "And, it's worth a mention that the team on the project was reportedly told they have until November 7 to launch the new feature, or they will be fired."grafician
- An actual donkey.PhanLo
- Don't fret, our Lord & Savior AOC is on it.
https://mobile.twitt…palimpsest - I can hardly wait for grafician to get a sense of humornb
- Yes, I'm laughing at your stupid posts
☉ ‿ ⚆grafician
- You don't buy a blue checkmark with 8/month, you gotta be verified first then pay to keep it
- instrmntl0
- what's free speech have to do with a blue checkmarksheep
- she is free to voice her opinionhotroddy
- What is she on about?palimpsest
- Fake reply. But yeah basically tons of people are trying to leverage Elon’s wild week to gain more tractionnb
- ^Fake comment.
https://mobile.twitt…palimpsest - Me? Elon didn’t write this, or he deleted itnb
- @nb
Have you followed my link?
It is Elon and his comment is at 823k likes at this time.
Maybe you have him blocked. XDpalimpsest - Stop spreading fake news.palimpsest
- We're gonna revoke your blue username and turn it green.palimpsest
- 878kpalimpsest
- How many K on her Tesla?Gnash
- I paid extra for my #2DB127 !importantsheep
- Weeeird. I don’t have him blocked but his tweet does not show up in my twitter app. Amazingnb
- Beeswax2
- “How about $8” - Elon Musknb
- Product of cheap capital from the past decade. About to have it's bubble burst now capital is going to cost....shapesalad
- What a great investment Elon!utopian
- How about tree fiddy?********
- Why does Twitter have debtdrgs
- cuz they needed loans to pay for people..posting...te... messages...
yea, WTF why?futurefood - text*futurefood
- Have you seen their headquarters? That's why********
- Well the headquarters still have value, debt is offset/guaranteed by equitydrgs
- nice graphmilfhunter
- Your have to be a clueless retard if you think a headquarters is responsible for even a fraction of this debt.monospaced
- Headquarters. Maybe a few million. Derp derp moronmonospaced
- palimpsest-3
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- I’d pay $0.04 to downvote this postnb
- Charge 4 cents per downvote and qbn will be profitable sooner than twitter is ;)nb
- The fact that you would pay to downvote this reply tells me you have a good grasp of what's going at Twitter.palimpsest
- The money goes to the person that posted.
Grafician's about to turn rich!palimpsest - Set is turning blue in his grave.utopian
- Is it a fact, though? I said I’d pay four cents but would I? Come on nownb
- Fake news.palimpsest
- I paid extra for my #2DB127 !importantsheep
- i bought a newstoday t-shirt once am I grandfathered in?jonny_quest_lives
- palimpsest11
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- Why is package more expensivedrgs
- Because I'm about making that cheese.palimpsest
- lolYakuZoku
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- Send me $3 and I'll fuck off forever********
- Now that you mention it...Moderator
- pay one time $100 for me and all 3 will be yours forever.sted
- I'd buy that for a $fadein11
- WAGMI!PhanLo
- nb4
$7 blue checks
- grafician-1
- "billions of bot bidirectional transactions"utopian
- whatever you need to tell yourselfspl33nidoru
- Eight Dollar Elonnb
- NBQ00-1
Elon to cut about 50% twitter workforce today.
Looking forward to see what twitter will be in a year or few from now. Looks like a shitshow already with him at the helm.
- nb20
I lost everything in a fire during my time at Twitter. No one rushed me back to work. Coworkers rallied their teams to a GoFundMe set up for me and my cat. My manager gave me a discreet bonus to help and only apologized that it wasnt more. I will never forget any of it. #OneTeam <3
Follow the #oneteam hashtag today. Heartbreaking stories.
Meanwhile, Elon fucking BRAGS about firing half his people. He’s gloating. He’s proud of it. Wtf. And still the Elon Stans will consider Elon a hero of business and probably talk about how billionaires are job creators. What a joke.
Fuck Elon. He’s a spoiled rich kid with no real friends. That would be fine but don’t take out your insecurities on working Americans.
- Elon is the light, Elon is the way.palimpsest
- Lucky they have a strong union.PhanLo
- Seeing as you have insight –what does such a large workforce actually do all day in a company like that? I don't see much dev, but they have huge dev teams, no?Nairn
- elon stan sounds like a country singerhans_glib
- Regardless, the Musky one is being a total fuckpig about this. As per usual.Nairn
- Wow lots of downvotes. Guess y’all out here sucking elons dick. If you’re lucky, he’ll get your wife pregnant and you’ll be set for lifenb
- https://twitter.com/…grafician
- Mate it's not Elon, it's business. Did you know Binance invested $400M in this deal?
Did you know the deal was on leverage?grafician - that means twitter has A LOT of debt to repay quickly and zero cash standing aroundgrafician
- Everybody is firing people btw https://news.yahoo.c…grafician
- From what I can see in that #oneteam stream, not engineering getting fired or important poeple to run twitter
Just as I told you before and you got madgrafician - Just business? Elon's whole plan during the first backout and the talk of firing folks was to devalue the company for a cheaper buy.garbage
- Craven capitalism is the only thing he's good at. He's lucky that he was born with house money safety net that means that he can never actually fuck up.garbage
- Bro blame the last CEO who promised that Elon's takeover would go smoothly, when knowing fully well who Elon was. Greedy bastards thought they won so easily?grafician
- Bro blame the last CEO and everybody pushing for the deal even tho' Elon didn't want it anymore.
I don't care about Elon, but yeah it's just businessgrafician - And grown ass people working at one of the biggest comps in SF with $100K salaries getting exposed like this...yeah suregrafician
- First paragraph is not mine, I copied from twitter. The rest is my commentary. Sorry I meant to post the link. It stays!nb
- A recession is coming, tech is down 70-80% who tf thinks they deserve shit in Silicon valley when the house is on fire?!grafician
- That said, I did work embedded with a twitter product team VERY briefly and I work in tech so I have some context to all thisnb
- @graf It's just business, if just business is one spoiled brat is given the keys to a thousand cars while actual innovators are trying to build one from scratchgarbage
- The only thing Musk drives is late-stage capitalism straight into a wall that he's too stupid to see, but he also doesn't care because he's never had to.garbage
- audi, vw, gm already sigining out their advertising from twitt.. kinda makes sense not to run your ads on a tesla platform...neverscared
- lots of other big boys too...neverscared
- elon musk incest show equals twitter...neverscared
- The world will be just fine without this pale cuck fuck********
- "I lost everything in a fire during my time at Twitter."
This is insensitive to people who actually lost everything in a literal fire.palimpsest - ^ I think it was a literal fire.monNom
- ;-)palimpsest
- @nb i usually pop in here for a laugh or two occasionally and to remember happier times on this site... i find Elon stans just really miserable people and itjonny_quest_lives
- shows in some of their comments. having been through layoffs myself I get it's business. but this is something more sinister based on my experiencejonny_quest_lives
- Layoffs should be held with some form of dignity and people saying "now they have to get a real job" Fuck off! All jobs are real!jonny_quest_lives
- don't usually get riled up but shitting on workers on what based on my experience could be the worst day of their lives is pretty fucked.jonny_quest_lives
- you can hate elon, you can hate twitter as an entity but assuming people who were hired for their technical skills or to fulfill a role the previous ownersjonny_quest_lives
- deemed necessary for day to day operations are somehow out to get you or part of a right wing agenda or grifting/redundant is a pretty shitty takejonny_quest_lives
- i meant to write left wing agenda but whatever the only agenda seems to be to prop up musk as as the good guy in this scenario and somehow right wing peoplejonny_quest_lives
- were punished by twitter and this is some sort of reckoning that these employees brought on themselves.jonny_quest_lives
- Me grabs popcorn and watches the impulsive, know-it-all, attention whore, man-child, and megalomaniac Elon Mook vaporize his 44 Billion dollar investment.utopian
- How much net profit has twitter made?shapesalad
- Cheap money gave us the dot com crash, the sub prime crash, and now... the tech/crypto crash. Goodbye twitter and meta's metaverse.shapesalad
- Fed repeats the same mistakes over and over again. Reduce rates, make capital cheap, flood market, inflation, crash, high rates, depression... and repeat.shapesalad
- *correction* Reduce rates, make capital cheap, flood market, inflation, high rates, crash, depression... then stimulate growth with low low rates... and repeat.shapesalad
- Just go back to the great depression and look at the cycles. Same old same old. Only now the numbers have a lot more 000,0000,000,000,000... on them.shapesalad
- Eventually it'll just collapses as a monetary system, you know... just like the roman empire did and all those other civilisations.shapesalad
- Isn't it about 500 years on average per civilisation. Anyway.. Twitter is just a product of the past decades cheap cheap capital.shapesalad
- Agree. It's a company that doesnt make anything. A corporate tapeworm.zardoz
- shapesalad-5
Ksum Nole
- NBQ002
If you checkout #OneTeam hashtag on twitter you see countless people getting locked out without any real notice.
Is that how firing people in the US works? Don't they have at least 2 weeks notice?
- https://twitter.com/…NBQ00
- Giving two weeks' notice isn't a legal requirementPioneerDJ303
- California employees have a right to sue under a state “Warn” law. Getting locked out of systems does not necessarily mean they are not getting severance paynb
- HOWEVER, this is a brutal new trend in tech. Most big tech layoffs have happened this way this year. No help, no conversation with your manager.nb
- The WARN act if it's over 50 employees getting laid offdbloc
- Just a wide email sent out that says “if you’re corporate email is not working, you have unfortunately been laid off. Thanks for your service, best of luck”nb
- maybe he will only lay off 49 employeesdbloc
- Other companies did a company-wide zoom call telling people “if your email doesn’t work after this call, sorry, you’ve been laid off.” It’s BRUTALnb
- Tech leaders are FUCKING COWARDS. They can’t even fire people over a 1-1 zoom call. Fucking pussiesnb
- *yournb
- Waaay more than 50 people are being laid off, reportedlynb
- ouch.
Bloomberg reported on Elon Musk's plans to lay off about 3,700 Twitter employees, or about half of the current workforcedbloc - "the way people at Twitter are finding out they’ve been fired is they are getting logged out of their accounts & Slack" is some funny shit.********
- i don't dislike Elon because he's a billionaire. I dislike Elon because he's libertarian POS. i find it funny he doesn't have the balls to announce or sign thejonny_quest_lives
- layoff notices himself. he deactivates his twitter handle to hide for the afternoon... then little edgelord trolls actively suck his cock onlinejonny_quest_lives
- like he's the second coming of Nikola Tesla instead of the South African ex pat Robber Naron he real is.jonny_quest_lives
- *Robber Baronjonny_quest_lives
- @crazyprick "the way people at Twitter are finding out they’ve been fired is they are getting logged out of their accounts & Slack" is some funny shit."jonny_quest_lives
- @crazyprick what a priviliged life you've lived... glad you can rub one out to the misfortune of others.jonny_quest_lives
- @crazyprick i sincerely hope you continue to go through life never having been found redundant or your role no longer a fiscally viable for your employerjonny_quest_lives
- the comments on this site sometimes jeezus what a shitty timeline. i really hope you are all better people in personjonny_quest_lives
- Jonny, live in your fairy world, but read this a few times: no one is irreplaceable. Don't think you're special, that's pretty fucking arrogant.********
- i work in a world where i have to pay bills, taxes and raise kids just cuz you think that's arrogant shows it's you problem not a me problem.jonny_quest_lives
- @crazyprick any other people suffering in the world you want to shit on?jonny_quest_lives
- @crazyprck and i have been layed off so believe me I know exactly how little companies care about workers which is why i called your bullshit outjonny_quest_lives
- @crazyprick read this a few times... empathy literally costs you nothing... being an utter piece of shit takes work.jonny_quest_lives
- And all of that bullshit you're spewing confirms you're an arrogant, special snowflake. Sorry to break it to you, but other people pay bills as well.********
- Including me, but I'm not a fucking crybaby********
- i HaVe BeEn LaYeD oFf So BeLiEvE mE, oh fuck off with that patronizing bullishit, mr. special********
- Empathy is for people who deserve it********
- @crazyprick oh now i know who you are...
IT'S BOBO! this get you hard? did i get you to precum?jonny_quest_lives - well glad i could get you a wet sticky in your undies.jonny_quest_lives
- trolls gonna trolljonny_quest_lives
- "No OnE IS IrreEPLACEABLE! Don't think you're special, that's pretty fucking ARRogANt" -crazyprickjonny_quest_lives
- Did that help finish you off? you in a refractory state yet?jonny_quest_lives
- Celebrating mass lay-offs is weird. But hey, that's disaster capitalism. It's like Squid Game in real life.
This is the future people want.
Climbing for dollarsPhanLo
- NBQ00-3
- NBQ001
Twitter suffers "massive drop in revenue," Elon Musk says
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/04…
