He'll never admit Twitter is just not a great advertising platform and most companies benefit more from simply advertising on Facebook and Google. And now most are exploring TikTok > Twitter anyway.
Elon Musk | Doer of things on X and sad little man
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He'll never admit Twitter is just not a great advertising platform and most companies benefit more from simply advertising on Facebook and Google. And now most are exploring TikTok > Twitter anyway.
Very Unfair!
Another piece of evidence that there’s an inverse relationship between how much people complain about a lack of free speech and how well they understand what free speech actually means.
Stick in bike wheel meme
Sounds eerily like that other brick brain - Trump
I'm starting to feel fairly confident that this is going to go horribly wrong and Musk's meltdown is going to be absolutely glorious. Hope I'm not wrong.
Can we add a sack/sell/liquidation watch to the thread title?
I think it usually works by asking managers to fire the x% least performing workers. Some company (e.g., Netflix) do this on consistent basis.
The problem here is that it looks that nothing is getting analyzed, and Musk is essentially acting like this is a role-playing game. From $20 for blue tick, to $8 after Stephen King's tweet, to public figures will have another secondary tick, to potentially needing to subscribe for watching videos etc. While these might be good for Twitter (or not), they definitely need a market research. But so far it looks like a system design interview of 'monetize better Twitter'.
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What happened to the free market? Billionaire crying that customers are leaving his company
Oh my fecking god
what hes really trying to say is , due to being a massive knob head advertisers that are beholden to free market wont go anywhere near his toxicity because actions have consequences.
What he really is saying is like "truth social" you cant just have a wild wild west of filth as mainstream companies wont want to be associated with your brand due to massive back lash it will cause them and their bottom dollar thus he now has to find other ways to con people into giving him money as even though he is the "richest " man in the world he actually cant afford to buy twitter and will be beholden to banks and the Sauidis to get twitter in the black.
What hes actually portraying is that hes up shits creek without a paddle and hes looking for everyone to bail him out due to his trolling causing him to pay 34 million more for twitter than he should have making this possibly the worst deal ever possibly conceived in humanity
Who's the bottom right?
Oh my fecking god
Dafuq
So the grand plan was buy twitter, sack 50% of staff = profit?
its a bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for him.
its a bold strategy Cotton, let’s see if it pays off for him.
America is so fecked but people like @Stack are loving the idea of an oncoming autocracy
All the talk of employees only getting one week salary is fake news. Been confirmed that at minimum employees are getting 2 months salary till Jan 4 if they don't get another job in that period. If they sign some kind of severance letter then get one month extra on top of that. Unconfirmed reports that even Feb 1 stock vest will be honoured in that case.
Depends on how mass layoffs are happening. If it is complete wipe out of teams or orgs then it will be indiscriminate firing irrespective of success or time in the company. For example per Indian news, every single person in Indian marketing team has been laid off at the Indian centre. But for teams losing a portion of people it comes down to stack ranking of employees by the manager which then flows upwards to VPs etc.
Musk himself.
Thank you for sharing I guess, but is this really a current event?
People finding out they're sacked when they are unable to sign into their work email accounts, as the password has been changed - disgusting. Also people saying they were online on the work site when everything suddenly disappeared. They didn't need to wait for an email to their personal accounts as they already realised they were one of the ones being laid off, it's such a shoddy way to treat workers who've done nothing wrong.
Musk told everyone to stay home today, he doesn't want to have to hire extra security to escort people out of buildings with their little box of belongings. Even their entry badges have been deactivated.
Musk told everyone to stay home today, he doesn't want to have to hire extra security to escort people out of buildings with their little box of belongings. Even their entry badges have been deactivated.
That's consistent with here, then. 8 weeks pay in lieu of notice.
I am very happy with his take over. It's an end to politically biased censorship on the platform. People will find him more centrist than they imagine. Plus the platform will actually have free speech and ban people for the right reasons. No longer for political whims
Will you post the video of Musk making you read that statement with a gun to your head?
The names are in the images (I missed them the first time too).
I assumed he was joking, because that might be the worst cartoon drawing of Musk ever. Doesn't look anything like him.
Damn, was hoping I wasn't the only one...
This takeover has nothing to do with free speech and everything to do with Musk playing real-life RPG, IMO. Nothing here looks like it has been researched.
To be fair, this is pretty standard. For example, Argo AI did this in June, when they were one of the coolest 'large startups' around. People saw that they had a 15 minute meeting with their manager in the calendar, and knew immediately what it was happening. 10% of the workforce was fired in a single day. (the entire company dissolved a week ago under Ford's pressure). So, it is no new for the tech sector.
Bear in mind, we are talking for highly qualified people who are earning 200-500k/year and would find quite easy good jobs, albeit a bit harder in the recession.
Highly qualified/paid workers also deserve labour rights, to be fair to them. But you're right that it's got nothing to do with Twitter itself.
Of course they do, but they are in a much better position than most people both financially, and also finding jobs easy. And as you said, it also does not have much to do with Twitter.
With regards to labour rights, it is a pretty much global phenomenon. For example, with Argo AI, the Munich office was severely impacted despite that Germany is one of the countries with the best labour rights. At the end, the company was bleeding money, so something had to be done.
NB: While something has to be done, it looks like a series of random moves, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is the beginning of the end for Twitter.
Can't find the white text.
Elon must agree about left footed penalty takers or something.
Whatever
Because there isn't any.
There is just no way Elon Musk has a reasonably sized penis.
I find it amazing that there are people out there who worship this bald cnut.
I find it amazing that there are people out there who worship this bald cnut.
Must have just been an innocent oversight on your part.