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If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
The difference is the person you’re responding to doesn’t claim to know the answer to something it’s almost impossible for either of you to know the answer (unless you have inside knowledge or have done a deep dive on Spotify).
> How's twitter working with 80% less employees?
Extremely poorly. It’s hemorrhaging money and it’s hemorrhaging users. Competitors are arising where almost none existed for about a decade and a half.
The point of having employees in a major platform based company isn’t just to “work fine”, but to out compete massive trillion dollar companies while at the same time fending off tiny 2-3 person startups which may come with a completely new idea or approach out of nowhere. Twitter’s reduced workforce only allows it to exist but has made it extremely hard to actually defend from those forces.
And to the extent it is succeeding to retain any users it’s almost entirely because of the advantages built by the company when it had a much larger workforce.
The only caveat I will add is that a lot of tech companies over hired during the pandemic due to FOMO more than anything else, and we know this because most of their CEOs have said as much.
Always has no?
> and it’s hemorrhaging users.
No it's not, it has hit multiple usage records this year.
> Competitors are arising where almost none existed for about a decade and a half.
Threads is a ghost town, Bluesky has pushed like 1 update this year, mastodon while it's found it's niche it will always be a niche because normal people don't understand or care what federation is.
Don't believe everything you read from people aggrieved by a service.
Really? I’m not sure I believe it.
Elon promised to get rid of the bots, but when I briefly stick my toe in that open sewer, I get the impression that there is a lot of astroturfing.
You can't claim that if there's no official source for it and the only source is Elon (With a track record of lying) posting about it on his service.
My twitter feed is literally a ghost town
Was Twitter in any way profitable before Musk took over, or was it coasting on zero interest investor money on the premise that "one day" it will be profitable?
>Competitors are arising where almost none existed for about a decade and a half.
Competitors rise all the time, the question is which have the sticking power to beat Twitter.
Record labels are far more awkward to deal with legally than video game publishers, so wouldn't be shocked if they needed X more lawyers at least.
I don't know. Maybe?
Nowhere it says Spotify have 10k employees in IT/Engineering. Perhaps a large portion is in Legal or Compliance. Dealing with regulations around music distribution on a global scale looks pretty complicated to me.
Also, Spotify does streaming, which is a fundamentally different - and more complex -business than e-commerce of digital goods (which is Valve's business model).
Ultimately, my point still stands. Spotify has competitors. If they are so bloated, nothing should stop a leaner competitor to eat their lunch.
> How's twitter working with 80% less employees?
I didn't use Twitter before Musk took over, and I don't use now. So it's difficult for me to compare their two incarnations.
I'll just mention that on a recent interview Musk said (in very colorful language) that the current advertiser boycott may kill the company. So my guess is that Twitter is not doing very well with only 20% of the workforce.
I see this type of hyperbole twice a week on HN and it's getting really boring.
Otherwise, the service is generally reliable.
Hasnt this been done to death on hackernews ( and elsewhere) . why do we keep beating this dead horse