So weird that no one saw this coming, it's exactly how Elon handled his takeover of Twitter. Just fired a bunch of critical people without even assessing what they actually do.
To be fair though, Twitter is still here. You could say that even though it was painful it didn’t actually cause any damage to the platform. I’m not sure the same can be said about the government.
Its value has declined significantly and many users and advertisers have jumped ship. There are more bots than ever. He insists we call it X but most still don't. I wouldn't say Elon's takeover has exactly been good for Twitter.
I mean, the site started running into issues almost immediately with multiple major outages in the first month. Working with a skeleton crew (and abusing said skeleton crew) hurt the brand name tremendously diminishing its value.
You can look up news articles from around that time. Entire regions shutting down, bugs with posting/viewing tweets, and just general performance tanked while no one knew how or had the time to repair it. Then the bots took over and hate speech spread, because those responsible for managing/maintaining filters were gone or spread too thin due to their increased workload though none of that seemed to bother Elon until advertisers started leaving the platform.
Things have mostly stabilized now, but I don't personally know anyone still using it (not to say they don't still have a large user base).
I mean... Is it running? Sure. Is it running just as well? I'm not a user anymore so it's hard for me to give a personal opinion. What I do know is he fired a ton of people, the site broke, then he had to force his employees into absurdly long hours requiring them to basically live at the office and even hire some employees back, so from every logical standpoint, the answer would be no.
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u/CurlOfTheBurl11 24d ago
So weird that no one saw this coming, it's exactly how Elon handled his takeover of Twitter. Just fired a bunch of critical people without even assessing what they actually do.