Posted on 11/17/2022 9:20:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Musk owns a rocket company , right? He must have some top flight computer engineers who could help with Twitter.
What kind of man would not see his date safely home?
Almost unbelievable that in response to this AOC made sure to protect her future by telling the mincing sheep to go to another place like Instagram just in case.
Total narcissist.
redbull on tap
and bowls of nodoz
will get em back
A 20% loss on a single deal should dent the “Genius” moniker pretty heavily.
Might want to include a few large jugs of dextrose tabs. Caffeine is great stuff but the body needs sugar for actual energy.
You can skip the kale. No living creature needs kale.
I would go to work for Twitter, but I refuse to live in California and Musk doesn’t seem so keen on the remote work life.
It’s nit going to implode. More likely whimper out. In 3 months we’ll have clones, no not mastodon, competing for an erstwhile monopoly.
I kind of expect facebook or perhaps TenCent to get in on the action and grab market share.
Somehow I suspicion Musk has a method to his madness and will launch a bigger stronger company that uses far less personnel, at a greatly reduced cost, to make even larger profits.
I like the way he has got the greater majority of employees to quit by walking away, thus circumnavigating the much harder task of removing those clinging and fighting to hold on to their lucrative positions.
Many will "wake up" to the fact they had a very lucrative gig once they hit the real world looking for jobs. But, by then, it'll be too late to reverse their situation
Musk is a smart business man.
There are talented engineers but
1. Twitter needs a strategy.
2. It needs and architecture consensus
3. It needs time for transferring the knowledge
4. It needs advertisers to be willing to wait while this happens
He should have done these firings slowly and systematically while hiring replacements
Not quite. The engineers are: internal tools (including the help center, the Twitter admin, A/B testing framework, etc.), infrastructure (performance, Rails tweaking, writing job daemons), API/platform, relevance (trends, user recommendations and similarities), webclient (rewriting Twitter as a client-side application in JavaScript, other features for the web client), mobile, search, ads, release, and internationalization.
Did you know Twitter has a global network backbone with hundreds, if not thousands of peering relationships? Several hundred GB of internet traffic runs over it per day. Static video, pictures, live video and more.
There are constantly 6–10k tweets per second containing any mix of content, and it increases significantly during world and local events. And that is just contributions to the platform, not consumption of the content. It is not just a little simple website. There is a significant app layer and backend, which requires thousands of servers.
Just to support the infrastructure you have systems engineers, network engineers, hardware engineers, database administrators, data center operations, and many more. That doesn’t even start to include engineering staff to innovate and maintain the application. There are also IOS and Android app developers to maintain those applications that access the platform.
If he had fone it slowly he would have shed the lazy. Instead he’s created a stampede if good and bad employees
And a good salary
The software for a rocket company is not the same as that for a social media company. Nor the logic.
It’s like if he bought IKEA and you thought the SpaceX engineers could create good wooden furniture
Yes there are. But they need time to get up to speed and also need training and knowledge transfer
Are these people aware that they aren’t the only computer jockeys on the planet?
This is laughable. 30 percent is about right. And anyone there can be replaced.
I find it difficult to believe that Musk didn’t anticipate the reaction he’s received from Twitter employees, advertisers, and leftist users. $44B just to collapse and shot down Twitter? I’m not buying it.
Shot, shoot. My kingdom for a 60 second editor on FR.
Maybe Musk should let freepers take over the content moderation function.
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