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Twitter’s Last Gasp
CNN ^ | 11-18-22 | Oliver Darcy

Posted on 11/18/2022 8:42:16 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182

"....A former Twitter executive, who recently exited the company, described the situation to me as a "mass exodus." Asked about the situation, the former executive told me, "Elon is finding out that he can’t bully top senior talent. They have lots of options and won’t put up with his antics."

"They will struggle just to keep the lights on," the former executive added....."

(Excerpt) Read more at view.newsletters.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; musk; oliverdarcy; truthsocial; twitter
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Nonsense. Utter nonsense from an irrelevant DNC mouthpiece.


61 posted on 11/18/2022 9:21:55 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Twitter will come out lean and competitive. Musk always manages to accomplish that with his companies.


62 posted on 11/18/2022 9:23:17 AM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Twitter is nothing more than a computer program. Computer programmers are roaming the streets in many countries by the millions. There is plenty of cheap replacement talent available.


63 posted on 11/18/2022 9:24:14 AM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Been through many tech layoffs as both the kept and let go but have never seen intentional sabotage. Besides being grossly unethical and unprofessional it would open up a developer to nasty legal problems. And who the heck would trust them afterward?


64 posted on 11/18/2022 9:26:00 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: DesertRhino

Is it true the average salary was 250,000 for staying home?


65 posted on 11/18/2022 9:29:47 AM PST by MNDude (Once you remove "they would never" from your vocabulary, it all begins to make sense)
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To: AndyTheBear

You’re assuming that they keep the audit trails and normal controls functioning.

It would be pretty simple for a few radicals at the top to turn off versioning/verification/protection.

Just don’t check the return codes.


66 posted on 11/18/2022 9:30:07 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Twitter's "programmers" (censors / propagandists) will be replaced by some AI from Tesla.

67 posted on 11/18/2022 9:34:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: existentially_kuffer

“Twitter is just fine...”

Conservatives aren’t shadow banned. Imagine.


68 posted on 11/18/2022 9:35:30 AM PST by Luke21
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

You can’t simply turn off versioning for everything in any modern software company I have ever worked at. There is such a thing as `git blame`.


69 posted on 11/18/2022 9:41:36 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: allwrong57
I’m not sure what happens if they have no job on the H1 visa.

You go back.

70 posted on 11/18/2022 9:42:56 AM PST by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

As my Mom would put it -

I’d lay dollars to doughnuts that there is redundancy out the ying yang.


71 posted on 11/18/2022 9:43:32 AM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Pete Dovgan
Twitter will come out lean and competitive. Musk always manages to accomplish that with his companies.

I think so too. Moving into a smaller building with a fraction of the number of employees to a business friendly place like AZ, TX, or FL would go a long way toward that lean end.

72 posted on 11/18/2022 9:45:14 AM PST by Boomer (The biden regime / identity politics is a clear and present threat to this constitutional republic.)
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To: AndyTheBear

And there is always a way to force stuff in even if it’s simple linux commands.


73 posted on 11/18/2022 9:48:59 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I have a hard time people would believe paying jobs without having something to go to. Especially when that job market is depressed. Maybe if it was a year ago.


74 posted on 11/18/2022 9:51:09 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I’ve worked in the tech industry 25+ years. I learned very early on that I was completely replaceable. For every person exiting, there are 300+ who want your job and are capable of it. Sure, might take them a little bit to get up to speed, but they will.


75 posted on 11/18/2022 9:52:05 AM PST by grateful
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Musk expected substantially more work out of his employees for the same pay. Of course many employees would leave.


76 posted on 11/18/2022 9:52:50 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: Gaffer

Trying to distract from mini Madoff, the major democrat donor.


77 posted on 11/18/2022 9:54:02 AM PST by Rusty0604 (" When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat." -Ronald Reagan)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Force anything you like on the official code base or even delete it. Everybody uses git these days so everybody has a copy of the repo on their local machine with the full revision history.


78 posted on 11/18/2022 9:55:05 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: AndyTheBear
Forget code base, the whole infrastructure is virtual software layered thousands of levels. Someone could be smart enough to figure out a magic bullet.


79 posted on 11/18/2022 10:00:26 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Twitter is being run out of Tesla and SpaceX HQ’s. Nothing to worry about.


80 posted on 11/18/2022 10:03:27 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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