TigeriusKirk

It's a major tech company undergoing a fundamental rebuilding. I'd absolutely work there, it's a very rare opportunity. Previous Twitter never crossed my mind as a place I'd want to work.

But you've got to go in knowing it will be intense chaos and it could end suddenly for you personally.

Explicit hardcore porn has been on Twitter for years, and yet companies didn't worry at all about putting their ads on the site.

I knew someone who commuted from Philadelphia to Manhattan every day. Worked in a museum, so it was her dream job but didn't pay much. Longest commute I've know someone to do daily.

For a while in Los Angeles I had a commute of around an hour each way. Even in that sprawling eternal traffic jam of a city, my friends and coworkers considered my commute to be notably long.

I suspect this is what he's after. For whatever reason he thinks a significant number of Twitter devs did little if anything. Maybe he's even right about that, it's not exactly unheard of in big companies.

But I don't think this is a particularly effective way to root those people out.

It's also possible he's reassigning teams from the ground up, and this is his sorting method.

He's definitely serious about it.

Twitter is bound to have a rocky time after losing so many people so fast. It's going to be a lot harder than it needed to be.

It'll survive, of course, but it's not going to be easy now.

I wonder if it's related to the EVE Online meme of o7 (ascii salute)

It's a very simple matter to verify a degree. No 84930 tweet thread needed.

Has anyone verified the degree?

He should have outlined the reasons to stay. Compensation, including a new stock plan. A vision of where the company is going.

Giving everyone who is unhappy a graceful exit was the right idea, but he didn't give many reasons to stay even if you were happy.

Why not?

Alexa does seem like it has fantastic potential. To throw so many resources at it with so little result seems like an incredibly massive failure of management.

Absolutely, without hesitation. Very interesting projects and a lot of action. I can handle a lot of things, but I can't handle being bored.

It'd be exciting and fun for me personally. I'd love it, but I definitely understand that puts me in a minority.

Oreo has the official tag https://twitter.com/Oreo

From his all hands today -

Employee: Why is our leadership trying to increase attrition rate if we’re already understaffed and barely able to keep things running?

Musk: I’m not trying to increase attrition, but I think we are not understaffed. I think we are overstaffed. That is my opinion, which you’re welcome to disagree with.

WSB also has a culture of essentially celebrating big losses. There's no shortage of examples of people losing their entire investments. It's a weird culture.

>A VR headset would have to be sunglasses size

From what I've gathered, this is the Meta AR target for the early 2030s. What we see now are intended to be the steps along that road.

Most of it sounds fine outside of the "some public figures".

What it needs its clear standards and no whiff of Twitter endorsing the account holder.

Government accounts and corporate accounts are pretty straight forward. Business partners seems unavoidable. Some room for debate over "major" media outlets, but honestly it won't hurt to apply it to as small a media outlet as is practical. I would definitely not give it to individual journalists.

The public figures, though, could easily just go back to the same problems if they don't watch it.

I read the statement as less of a threat and more of a "we're going to all ignore this" message. In other words, it's bad for everyone in the room if the situation is officially acknowledged, and so it won't be.

> His post to the sales team notes that 25 percent of the organization was affected by Musk’s mass layoffs on Friday

That's significantly less than has been reported. I guess we have no real way to know.

To date there has been no change in my Twitter experience.

I like it for the specific reason that it's ridiculous.

Yes? Since at least the 90s.

When they started removing checkmarks from accounts for unapproved behavior, it stopped being about verification and started being about Twitter's endorsement of the account.

That was a huge unforced error, and its eventually led to this.

However, I think the right thing to do now is to remove the checkmark entirely and not claim Blue accounts are verified if they are in fact not verified.

Musk seems to be compounding a new error on top of the old errors.

26-35 is the most difference, I think. Very different stages of life for most people.

My science fiction stories got Asimov and Clarke. My fantasy stories got Tolkien. It is kind of suspicious.

I've been laid off in downturns a couple times before, so it has been me in that pit.

But you can't have the boom without the bust, and shrinking bloated companies is a thing that has to happen one way or the other.

Also, the Twitter layoff in particular has had about as much advance notice as anything I've seen. It's been clear for months and months it was going to happen. Plenty of time to get yourself in order or get out first.

Note that it says if you're let go, the email will come to your personal email. I assume because your access to corporate email will already be revoked.

I bet MrBeast could pull off a "I paid a guy $100,000 to spend a month in a private train car" or something.