Elon Musk buys $3 billion stake (9.2%) in Twitter and is now the platform's largest shareholder

[Anonymous]

Rumor is that there are 238 employees left (from about 7,500 in August). It’s just a matter of time before it goes down (not in a temporary outage way). It’s so interwoven in how the world communicates now so this is going to be a pretty unprecedented event.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ha Ha Ha

AOC salutes the Twitter WORKERS and Musk replies taking credit. What is wrong with him???

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/yygshr/seize_the_means_of_production_dont_have_some/

He has Asperger's, and the socio-communicative issues that go with it. He can't read the room. The reason he loves social media is that he is unable to maintain real in-person friendships. Yet he craves company, and he's happy to chat with complete strangers on the internet. So he's going out of the mechanical engineering comfort zone he's used to and foolishly thinks he can apply his brutalist methods to soft people like Tweeps. Big mistake.

it will take a miracle at this point.

BTW, to respond to another poster, Must works like crazy. He does nothing but work, and is known to sleep at work. Laziness is the one fault you can't pin on him.

[Anonymous]

Can employees really do any more damage that what Elon is doing himself?

[Anonymous]

I kind of believe the, "we fired the badge access person". hat makes perfect sense. If my employer fired me they'd find a bunch of little things like that and "oh crap; how do we open that door again?" type of stuff.

[Anonymous]

I figured Elon would run Twitter poorly, but this is so far beyond what I had predicted. This kind of incompetence takes serious effort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posting this for later when the tweets disappears : https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1593307541932474368.html

Elon is exactly like Trump. Liar, greedy, disrespectful, misogynist, racist and anti-democracy!

Wow! I just read through that unrolled Tweet. I am not one who has followed much about Elon until this Twitter debacle. It is so scary how much he has lied and fooled everyone. Even scarier it the billionaires like Peter Thiel who control our politicians. Ugh!

[Anonymous]

Elon also is a sexual pervert like Donald: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-shivon-zilis-secret-twins-neuralink-tesla

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rumor is that there are 238 employees left (from about 7,500 in August). It’s just a matter of time before it goes down (not in a temporary outage way). It’s so interwoven in how the world communicates now so this is going to be a pretty unprecedented event.

Agree. For all those who say that Twitter is nbd, people can just move to Insta or Mastodon or whatever, those people are really not thinking. Twitter, and instant access to news and to people, famous and just regular people, all over the world, is a big part of our lives - whether you use Twitter yourself or not. When Twitter is gone, in the near future, it's going to be very different.

[Anonymous]

So how long can a website/app stay up with skeleton staff? I presume that it will kind of run itself for some period, but eventually something will break and no one will be there to fix it. ???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rumor is that there are 238 employees left (from about 7,500 in August). It’s just a matter of time before it goes down (not in a temporary outage way). It’s so interwoven in how the world communicates now so this is going to be a pretty unprecedented event.

Agree. For all those who say that Twitter is nbd, people can just move to Insta or Mastodon or whatever, those people are really not thinking. Twitter, and instant access to news and to people, famous and just regular people, all over the world, is a big part of our lives - whether you use Twitter yourself or not. When Twitter is gone, in the near future, it's going to be very different.

Someone will rebuild it. Maybe all the unemployed former staff.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rumor is that there are 238 employees left (from about 7,500 in August). It’s just a matter of time before it goes down (not in a temporary outage way). It’s so interwoven in how the world communicates now so this is going to be a pretty unprecedented event.

Agree. For all those who say that Twitter is nbd, people can just move to Insta or Mastodon or whatever, those people are really not thinking. Twitter, and instant access to news and to people, famous and just regular people, all over the world, is a big part of our lives - whether you use Twitter yourself or not. When Twitter is gone, in the near future, it's going to be very different.

You mean like way back in 2007? I don't seem to recall having trouble eating or sleeping in those days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I kind of believe the, "we fired the badge access person". hat makes perfect sense. If my employer fired me they'd find a bunch of little things like that and "oh crap; how do we open that door again?" type of stuff.

It's not that it doesn't make sense (it does, and it's the sort of boneheaded thing you would expect), it's that the person making that claim also claims to have worked for FTX like last week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rumor is that there are 238 employees left (from about 7,500 in August). It’s just a matter of time before it goes down (not in a temporary outage way). It’s so interwoven in how the world communicates now so this is going to be a pretty unprecedented event.

Agree. For all those who say that Twitter is nbd, people can just move to Insta or Mastodon or whatever, those people are really not thinking. Twitter, and instant access to news and to people, famous and just regular people, all over the world, is a big part of our lives - whether you use Twitter yourself or not. When Twitter is gone, in the near future, it's going to be very different.

You mean like way back in 2007? I don't seem to recall having trouble eating or sleeping in those days.

Yes, I mean the world since 2007 - do you remember 2007? People still had Blackberries and they hadn't rolled out 3G yet.

I think smartphones and their ubiquitousness are a mixed blessing. Maybe we'll be able to go back to the world of 2007 after Twitter dies. Maybe that's a good thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rumor is that there are 238 employees left (from about 7,500 in August). It’s just a matter of time before it goes down (not in a temporary outage way). It’s so interwoven in how the world communicates now so this is going to be a pretty unprecedented event.

Agree. For all those who say that Twitter is nbd, people can just move to Insta or Mastodon or whatever, those people are really not thinking. Twitter, and instant access to news and to people, famous and just regular people, all over the world, is a big part of our lives - whether you use Twitter yourself or not. When Twitter is gone, in the near future, it's going to be very different.

You mean like way back in 2007? I don't seem to recall having trouble eating or sleeping in those days.

Yes, I mean the world since 2007 - do you remember 2007? People still had Blackberries and they hadn't rolled out 3G yet.

I think smartphones and their ubiquitousness are a mixed blessing. Maybe we'll be able to go back to the world of 2007 after Twitter dies. Maybe that's a good thing.

Only 23% of adults in the US use Twitter. I doubt a 10th of that number are daily users. So for the majority of people Twitter is not a thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rumor is that there are 238 employees left (from about 7,500 in August). It’s just a matter of time before it goes down (not in a temporary outage way). It’s so interwoven in how the world communicates now so this is going to be a pretty unprecedented event.

lol, this is your brain on AOC-anon. He's slashing headcount to immediately get to profitability. Cutting the deadweight. Years of scamming by literally thousands of freeloaders who do literally nothing.