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This has nothing to do with homeless.

Elon is saying the staff could be replaced by the homeless and it would be a better use of the office and money.

This is about putting the staff on notice a house cleaning is coming.

Finally an interesting comment, thank you. Seeing how blatantly detectable a lot of shitcoin spam on the platform is, one does wonder where the staff are spending their time. Even if it’s hard to algorithmically detect a spam, it should not be so clunky to report it when the spammer repeats the same thing 20 times. It’s like they learned their work ethic at Google or something.

> Seeing how blatantly detectable a lot of shitcoin spam on the platform is

I'm a nocoin/nevercoin blockchain skeptic who hates shitcoin spam too, but I wonder: does people posting tweets about "shitcoins" violate Twitter's usage policy, or just offend your sensibilities? I could see how posting the same thing twenty times might violate a policy, though not sure if it violates Twitter's. I only post about infosec and politics on Twitter and some users might not like that either!

You seem to be mixing different things.

They do have an anti spam policy.

I was talking specifically about spam. Non-spam is another matter.

And who decides what is and is not spam, you might ask? Well Twitter of course; they just aren’t very good at detecting even blatant examples of it proactively enough to prevent it from detracting from the user experience.

I saw it as a sign that he's not a fan of WFH/remote arrangements for tech companies, though at its root it's a shitpost.

I think you're reading into this, you're making inferences that simply have no context or support. As others have pointed out, it's likely a satirical comment about under-utilization of the office space (that's also quite expensive).

That said, it could be good for Twitter to go on a diet. It's spending a lot on employing some 5.5k people [1] and it doesn't seem to be in a massive growth phase [2].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272140/employees-of-twit...

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/303681/twitter-users-wor...

That's still a pretty shitty comment, or joke, or whatever, to publicly make. Imagine if you were a Twitter employee and this is how you're finding out that he plans to come for a large swath of you? By cracking wise and half-jokingly putting the decision over whether or not you get to keep your job in the hands of that poll?

I don't care if we all could've assumed he was going to want to clean house, he could at least have some tact in how he goes about it.

Twitter is permanent work from home. He's making a joke about the office being empty and the streets outside the office being filled with homeless people.

This tweet where he calls out needing to fire 12 floors of staff might suggest otherwise;

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512974273606045702

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