1. Dabiri mentioned in a tweet (left out of the BBC article ofc) that his departure didn’t have to do with recent events. That might be face-saving on his part but it is clickbaiting on the BBC’s part. Source: https://twitter.com/foaddabiri/status/1662110369140310023?s=...
2. Second point is that evidently twitter didn’t pay its bills (hosting maybe?) for Spaces. Source: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-cut-key-soft...
Both are obviously RUMINT but, there ya go…
Sometimes people just want to change up their career. It happens. There’s no particular reason.
And yeah, sure, he could’ve been let go for the technical glitches. But it’s hardly his fault if his heart isn’t in it anymore. People change. The trick is to depart before it becomes a problem, which (as I’ve discovered) is indeed tricky. Your instinct is to stay simply because it’s the default, it’s good money, and it’s no effort to change the status quo. Plus you worked hard to get there. All of those are difficult forces to overcome when you just want to do something, anything, else.
I think in the absence of evidence we just take the man at his word.
This is Musk’s #1 play in his playbook. Stop paying people and see who is willing to fight for it legally. Then negotiate down.
He did the same thing with Solar Roof customers when he doubled their price and asked them to sign a new contract even if they had a signed contract. My friend was one of those and he simply refused to sign anything because he knew better but I wonder how many signed the new contract. Eventually they relented and honored the original price but it was disgusting to even have to deal with that.
We admire them for their successes, which they use to camouflage their misdeeds. Worth studying but never becoming.
you could have some fun here if you were a creditor who Musk was refusing to pay
leave the service running, and cut it off at the point it does as much political damage as possible to Musk
Remember Musk clawed-back severance and bonuses on many people who already left.
Would you put someone on a two-week notice in charge of a nationwide critical launch?
In any case, hard to care no matter what the truth is, one more stupid twitter thing where it's a death by 1000 self-inflicted cuts.
I still don't get why there isn't an alternative, it's just a brand name, the service could have be replicated.
How does that work?
Perhaps, but the reasoning seems to basically boil down to "Journalists should take everything as gospel unless explicitly proven otherwise"
The more alarming aspect was the shrillness of replies, which seem to generally go unchallenged. I don’t like the idea that people think HN is for loudness. But thankfully that seems to be a minor fluctuation.
The sibling reply from Freedom2 is right too — your comment (other than the downvote complaints, which I know is hard to resist) generated some good discussion.
I hope it’s a measurement error, because the spike is literally a J.
It's still somewhat nascent, but with more high profile articles posted, you'll see more people coming over.
Fortunately, the UI here is not good enough to probably hold redditor interest in the long term.