Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
He doesn't. He is just running his own cersion of damage control.
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Twitter runs itself? engineers are just for changes? is this what computer illiterate people think?
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
I once had a coworker adamantly tell our IT guy that his computer couldn't be broken because he had never moved it. The words "It can't be broken. All I do is turn it on and off. Ive never even moved it." left his mouth.
Computer technology is essentially magic some people.
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Illiterate Actual
Member
Whoops, thought I had already replied and subbed this thread.
Anyway #teamelon here.
Looks like he's doing some risky shit but hey it's gonna keep it interesting.
No outages for me yet. I still haven't used Twitter enough to be able to tell when two tweets are like back to back... and one has small text and the other big text... which one is the quote and which one is the reply. Might be backwards. I've mostly learned that you don't click the 'reply bubble' to see the replies, that's to reply. Ya want to see replies? Just click somewhere in the nothing. Elite Tweet tips from me, you're all welcome.
Anyway #teamelon here.
Looks like he's doing some risky shit but hey it's gonna keep it interesting.
No outages for me yet. I still haven't used Twitter enough to be able to tell when two tweets are like back to back... and one has small text and the other big text... which one is the quote and which one is the reply. Might be backwards. I've mostly learned that you don't click the 'reply bubble' to see the replies, that's to reply. Ya want to see replies? Just click somewhere in the nothing. Elite Tweet tips from me, you're all welcome.
MatrixReloaded101
Member
I thought the same thing….
How do you decide to just tank a $44 Billion dollar investment like that. What a giant waste of money. No wonder he was trying to back out of buying the company.
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Makoto-Yuki
Banned
is it time to get out? should i shut down my account?
where is there to go that isn't facebook instagram or tiktok? i don't have a mastodon or discord.
where is there to go that isn't facebook instagram or tiktok? i don't have a mastodon or discord.
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
It's a federated network, servers that allow that kind of content are banned - and if your admin missed one, just report.
If you don't believe me, just check the list of banned servers in your server.
jufonuk
not tag worthy
Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week
It comes amid reports that large numbers of workers have resigned from the social media platform.
www.bbc.com
Bitmap Frogs
Mr. Community
He was valued at what, 250B?
You're talking one fifth of his value… that's not peanuts.
HoodWinked
Member
locking out staff suddenly with no warning is probably the best way to mitigate sabotage, giving a timeline would have given bad actors a way to plan out something. And given the weird climate we're in with politics, I can see malicious employees not being charged or ruled innocent of corporate theft or sabotage in California. They don't even prosecute real crime.
MisterFalcon
Member
I'd very carefully check my desk for monitoring devices if I worked there and came to the office after the weekend.
Or maybe they need some time to put pictures of Musk on every wall.
Or maybe they need some time to put pictures of Musk on every wall.
nemiroff
Gold Member
Twitter locks staff out of offices until next week
It comes amid reports that large numbers of workers have resigned from the social media platform.
Another interesting action from a madman. The guy would've been entertaining if it wasn't for the fact that he's a psychopath with no scruples, toying with real people's lives.
I mean, a non-alienating trimming was probably necessary, but essentially all he had to do was to ensure a certain drive for monetization and ads, and to focus on a fair balance of free speech.
That's a motherboard of thinfoil hats - with a perfect fit for Elon's brain.
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tommib
Banned
He did it for the memes.
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Finally we've got a translator for Elons thoughts!
tommib
Banned
Was that the ultimate 4D chess move from Musk? Knowing that he is a CCP puppet?
jufonuk
not tag worthy
Nearly two hours , eff that. I dont Give enough of a shit about twitter. I'm sorry that a lot of people are going to lose their jobs because Elon can't help but be a twat.
I wish he decided to go through with that end world hunger challenge instead of hit twitter and show how shit he is as a businessman and human being.
Tesla space x etc are all great companies but now it's more clear that Elon is an ideas person not a people person. He seems like a massive tool.
He makes all his money etc off the hard graft of people he seems to treat like shit.
I wonder how many actual friends he has?
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Either crime rates are sky rocketing in blue states or they don't prosecute real crimes.
Tams
Member
Are they?
From what I can tell, the devs hardly did anything. At least not the ones doing frontend stuff.
So long as they have server people, and a few working in the algorithms (though really, surely those are pretty much done by now?), what else is there?
Twitter is barely profitable (often not) and has only been successful by being a first-mover and lucky.
I'm glad we can get past the charade of caring about Twitter and distill it to seething about Musk.
jufonuk
not tag worthy
SJRB
Gold Member
Ash Sparrow
Banned
Dee Dah Dave
Member
Looks like it was ran as some kind of hippie commune. A ridiculous sized staff for what is essentially a glorified community text message app. Most of them doing very little.
When they do choose! to come into work they sit around eating free meals and doing group therapy sessions for when Donald Trump says something mean.
Occasionally someone glues a few lines of ready made JavaScript code together and thinks they are the saviour of mankind.
When they do choose! to come into work they sit around eating free meals and doing group therapy sessions for when Donald Trump says something mean.
Occasionally someone glues a few lines of ready made JavaScript code together and thinks they are the saviour of mankind.
Bragr
Banned
Yeah, what is happening here is that they are angry they have to go back to the workplace.
During covid, people worked at home and Twitter apparently never rolled it back, so now all the hippies are angry they have to be at the HQ and not just sleep in and work at night or whatever.
Those fucking idiots had to go, Twitter is gonna be a mess for a month or two, but eventually, new normal people will get hired.
pleaseinsertdisctwo
Member
It genuinely concerns me when people think Elon is funny when in reality he's just a manchild. Do you guys not see that the way he's acting is just his ego short-circuiting?
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BadBurger
Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
Man you really have absolutely no clue how the tech world works, nor the hours we all put in even in the best of settings. No idea at all.
SJRB
Gold Member
You worked at Twitter?
Bragr
Banned
I said nothing about that at all. What are you talking about?
Working at home over skype/team is the worst thing that ever happened to software development. He's trying to reduce it and they got angry.
Wildebeest
Member
I don't care about Twitter, and I'm not seething. Elon Musk has put his life forward as free entertainment, and I find it funny enough.
The Cockatrice
Banned
Say what you want about Elon. but at least hes not a boring billionaire like all the others.
Zathalus
Member
As a Senior DevOps guy myself, plenty of companies still offer work from home and regular hours so if I was working for Twitter I'd just take the severance package and leave. I was working for AWS up until last month and worked from home and never needed to do a minute of overtime.
Getting good employment as a developer or senior engineer is honestly not going to be hard. Recruiters basically throw themselves at you.
Unknown Soldier
Member
It genuinely concerns me that you think you know someone you have never met better than any of us who have also never met that person.
jufonuk
not tag worthy
His mum is a gilf though.
tommib
Banned
I agree but it's not more cringe than all the Twitter drama going on for weeks since Musk took over.
Swift_Star
Banned
Lmao, the "best people" are that stupid to work long hours?
Swift_Star
Banned
Source? Do you have ANY evidence whatsoever to support those claims?
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
The badge guy is just a joke but it's hilarious nonetheless.
What's a tea melon?
Yep. Elon ripped their work from home privileges, fired a bunch of people because he felt like it, trash talked their existing accomplishments, told them they have to be ready to work 12+ hours a day going forward, and offered a three month severance package if folks didn't want to work long hours under someone who's ready to can you if you so much as look at him wrong right before Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years.
Who the fuck wouldn't take that severance pay? You can fuck off all the way through New Years and still have a month to look for a job, which is hilariously easy with their resumes. It isn't even remotely surprising that the entire Twitter for Android team resigned.
I'm not going to sit here and relish Twitter's demise or anything and fully expect some sense of normalcy will arrive eventually, but Elon's choices here have been dumb as shit. I imagine he underestimated how many people would take that deal.
Maiden Voyage
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Dude hit the nail on the head
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Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Phil Spencer set up an account over at Mastodon:
mastodon.sdf.org
Phil Spencer (@xboxp3@mastodon.sdf.org)
3 Posts, 2 Following, 494 Followers · Head of Xbox | #PowerYourDreams
Bragr
Banned
Elon was frustrated that no one showed up at the office and everyone was working at home, he kept talking about how the HQ was virtually empty. He's trying to uproot the work practices and the twitter employees hate it. They are lashing out about it. It's all over Twitter.
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