#RIPTwitter is trending... and it's got me thinking Elon Musk might lowkey be a hero

[MikelArteta]

Lot of hot takes on here, alot of them incorrect or misguided.

Most of you only understand Twitter from your own user experience. Elon was the same way and his actions thus far have proved to be rash, short sighted, and made without enough critical thinking or collaboration from internal stakeholders. (I heard him talk first hand to us employees about why he wanted to buy Twitter....and it was clear he didn't know WTF he was buying)

Yes, the site and app still works. But also, the codebase is locked so no one can make updates until Elon lifts the freeze. There are marketing and advertising initiatives that were in the pipeline for World Cup that are likely frozen or trashed, and now have no one to support. Entire engineering teams resigned last night. I'm willing to bet entire SRE teams did as well.

I'm hearing rumors of the payroll and tax teams resigning as well.

In a normal company, you bring in new employees to learn from existing employees as you churn the workforce. In this instance, having 3 big hits to the workforce (50% cut 2 weeks ago, 4000 contractors fired on Saturday, voluntary resignations yesterday) and there's slim to zero chance of any kind of meaningful knowledge transfer.

Some of yall making wild statements that i'd expect from the Elon/Crypto/Russian bot accounts on Twitter.

when that hey bighead email hits former employees

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

another old man yells at cloud thread
i swear some of you won't be happy until the internet is gone completley

Shiiitt I'm ready

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If The Coli brehs are hip to doing Pen Pal letters and shyt...LETS fukkING GOOOOOOO!!!!

 

[Damnshow]

If you destroy one social media platform the other one will rise with same bullshyt.

Elon is delusional thinking he gon make his twitter staff work like chinese slaves. 44 billion deal and he treats it like a dumb toy

 

[NoirDynosaur]

i think instagram will be next. Its already FLODDED and im hearing more people getting fed up with it saying its pretty much just a marketplace now

I lurk on instagram only for news and comic book shyt. But even when i look at folks i know its like no one has posted a pic since like last year

IG hasn't been the same. Instagram was in its prime the 2010's like during 2016-2019. It went downhill when the original creators left the company along with the algorithm change

 

[PrnzHakeem]

when that hey bighead email hits former employees

Elon has already poisoned the well. Twitter employees get recruiters trying to poach them every day, but now there's no org culture keeping them in place.

There's an RSU vesting event on Feb 1st for most folks, I cant imagine an engineer passing up a huge check to take a weak severance package....only to come crawling back cuz Elon asked. They know Elon just gonna lay people off again on a whim

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

ill just say this.... im ah miss the porrrrrnnnnnnnnn

This. Everything else I don't care about. But for amateur porn twitter is dope.

 

[Unknown Poster]

So twitter should burn cause you don’t like it

 

[beenz]

Shiiitt I'm ready

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If The Coli brehs are hip to doing Pen Pal letters and shyt...LETS fukkING GOOOOOOO!!!!

I grew up with all these things, but I'm not eager to return to them.

also, I wouldn't be mad if social media went away. I'm not really into that.

 

[beenz]

IG hasn't been the same. Instagram was in its prime the 2010's like during 2016-2019. It went downhill when the original creators left the company along with the algorithm change

instagram is fukking ass. don't even try to scroll the feed as ur constantly being inundated with ads. it's ridiculous

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Brehs really biting nails over Twitter dying, but couldn't wait until the body decomposed when Coli was on its last legs for that spell. Don't get me wrong, Twitter is a double edge sword. It has the fukkery, the por...ummm artistic content, and legit deals for hook ups (gaming deals, I actually won a tight ass t shirt from a contest because I was the only one that did the contest lmao, and other forms of held downs). Let us not pretend that Twitter consisted of the following:

• Overkill feminism
• Safespaces and pearl clutching
• Bots and more bots responsible for a fukked up election and spread of misinformation
• Trauma porn
• Shea butter lunatics
• Right wing nutjobs
• The list goes on

If anything, it was long overdue for Twitter to get itself in check. Yes, Musk is a smoothed brain dikkhead, but he exposed what was wrong with not only Twitter but social media all within a few weeks. The racism, greed, corruption, and manipulation.

On the real, if Twitter shyts the loaf...we will be alright. There's going to be another fukkery filled site that will feed the Coli streets from birdbrained jawns to questions like "would you eat out prime Pinky or have a dinner with Jay Z's bodyguard?"

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

I grew up with all these things, but I'm not eager to return to them.

also, I wouldn't be mad if social media went away. I'm not really into that.

Touche' but if push comes to shove, I'm if needed to be. Goodwill for the movies, load up some emulators that I am sitting on, and just eat

 

[beenz]

Touche' but if push comes to shove, I'm if needed to be. Goodwill for the movies, load up some emulators that I am sitting on, and just eat

I put NES/SNES/Atari/Genesis emulators and roms on my macbook years ago. like 2 macbooks ago. I NEVER play them, but they literally take up no space, and they are there if I ever wanted to use them.

 

[Roid Jones]

So twitter should burn cause you don’t like it

It's always the same refrain from fools, they don't like something, so they complain endlessly about it instead of ignoring it

 

[Roid Jones]

Imagine blaming an app for being not being able to display minimum human decency

 

[Roid Jones]

Breh... the algorithm is designed to present curated content to you based on what YOU click on and view. It serves exactly what content you want to see depending on who you follow, what tweets you like and retweet, etc. I'm also not sure what tiktok has to do with China but yes, I know that is the case.

It's not my fault porn and thots keep showing up on my feed it's 'teh algorythm'