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> I was an engineer during the Elon Twitter acquisition and saw the thoughtless destruction first-hand.

I don't know. I'm not a fan of Elon, and never really used Twitter. The popular opinion was that firing most of the workforce, Twitter would go down. That it needed god knows how many SREs to keep running.

Then Elon fired everyone and Twitter didn't go down. What was destroyed?

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The business was destroyed. Like, they had finally become profitable before the acquisition. If Elon had fired less people on the business side and kept up the illusion of brand safety for advertisers, then they'd now be pretty profitable, even with no growth.

Did it not go down? Because twitter.com now seems to redirect to a porn site, and the forum therein is more and more indistinguishable from 4chan.

we can agree to disagree

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