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Maxwell Lord posted:I can see it limping on but just becoming a shell of itself, it depends on how this all plays out. Thing is people might expect that as part of the apparently natural life cycle of social media, but at this point it feels like there's no way Musk is going to stop until he's run it completely into the ground. Though I suppose that would describe Tumblr, which is its likely fate; being quietly sold off for a pittance after driving off most of its users and maybe quietly reviving under less delusional management.
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Nov 4, 2022 09:27
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Josef bugman posted:I didn't know twitter had ads? They're disguised as tweets.
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Nov 4, 2022 11:27
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Nov 4, 2022 11:59
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What are journalists going to do when they can no longer report on tweets?
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GrandpaPants posted:What are journalists going to do when they can no longer report on tweets? This might be the biggest truth of them all. I swear 90% of articles I read anymore, especially sports-related ones, are just a headline and then 20 different re-posted tweets from athletes or celebs reacting. Journalism has become a joke for many reasons, but this might be the biggest. “Screenshotting how an unrelated person reacted” is not telling a story or providing in-depth analysis, just like “reposting a series of tweets” isn’t an article. The sooner Twitter dies off the better. I’ll just take a small frosty, thanks.
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GPTribefan posted:This might be the biggest truth of them all. I swear 90% of articles I read anymore, especially sports-related ones, are just a headline and then 20 different re-posted tweets from athletes or celebs reacting. As an aside, seems like every buzzfeed article is a review of a reddit thread, like a book report but for a popular AMITA or something like that.
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Nov 4, 2022 12:56
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Apparently the layoffs started overnight with every Twitter employee receiving an email as to whether or not they still work for the company
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Nov 4, 2022 13:01
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Obviously mileage varies on personal stuff, but if I worked at Twitter I would be hoping to be on the layoff team, take whatever the buyout is, and get off the crazy train. I guess that’s assuming they give a payout package , but wtf company that large wouldn’t do a payout package with layoffs ?
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Nov 4, 2022 13:04
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Watching a corporate / social media giant implode in real time is going to be one for the ages
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Duckman2008 posted:Obviously mileage varies on personal stuff, but if I worked at Twitter I would be hoping to be on the layoff team, take whatever the buyout is, and get off the crazy train. Buddy, they didn't even pay the board members and the c level guys
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GPTribefan posted:This might be the biggest truth of them all. I swear 90% of articles I read anymore, especially sports-related ones, are just a headline and then 20 different re-posted tweets from athletes or celebs reacting. the biggest reason journalism has gone to poo poo is that all the advertising that used to be spread across the news ecosystem is now entirely monopolized by google/apple/facebook. low effort twitter repostsing and seo-optimized filler articles are a symptom, those articles will just be replaced with some other garbage if twitter dies
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Nov 4, 2022 13:07
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He’s going to refuse to pay anyone and say that they were terminated for cause It’s not going to work but I understand that Musk hates paying severance so this is normal for him
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Buddy, they didn't even pay the board members and the c level guys Lol this is a very good point. What happens, the employees do a class action lawsuit and sue ?
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The high level guys are definitely suing or sending letters of demand now, if musk hasn't reached out to quietly settle with them. I believe Twitter has already violated some law where 1 month notice is required before high number layoffs and a class action suit has already been initiated
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Duckman2008 posted:Lol this is a very good point. Supposedly already in the works! https://twitter.com/josheidelson/st...com%2F527474868
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The Saddest Rhino posted:The high level guys are definitely suing or sending letters of demand now, if musk hasn't reached out to quietly settle with them. I believe Twitter has already violated some law where 1 month notice is required before high number layoffs and a class action suit has already been initiated He didn’t do either
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FlamingLiberal posted:He’s going to refuse to pay anyone and say that they were terminated for cause Much like Trump the rich hate paying people. I bet Musk is just like Trump in that he sees literally every situation as zero sum where he's either the winner or the loser and pathologically has to never be the loser
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Nov 4, 2022 13:23
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FlamingLiberal posted:There’s a state law in CA where if you do layoffs you need to give 60 days notice or pay 60 days severance I think there are both federal and California versions of the WARN Act, yeah.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Much like Trump the rich hate paying people. I bet Musk is just like Trump in that he sees literally every situation as zero sum where he's either the winner or the loser and pathologically has to never be the loser
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Duckman2008 posted:Obviously mileage varies on personal stuff, but if I worked at Twitter I would be hoping to be on the layoff team, take whatever the buyout is, and get off the crazy train. Everyone just got all their stock bought out, so most of them should have a windfall already to ease the transition to a new job or manage the holdout during the class action. Usually this firing everyone and telling them to get hosed routine only works because the victims have to get a job yesterday or they lose their house. But big brains over here just wrote everyone a check last week.
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Nov 4, 2022 14:24
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a hs friend of mine was working for Twitter but got out before this shitshow. he had joined the ethics team but didn't stay more than a couple of months iiuc (for reasons that seem obvious)
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Nov 4, 2022 14:37
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Empty Sandwich posted:a hs friend of mine was working for Twitter but got out before this shitshow. Ethics at twitter seems like it would be the easiest job in the world.
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GrandpaPants posted:What are journalists going to do when they can no longer report on tweets? forget that, what is half this forum going to post when it can't be a tweet embed and "lol"
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Nov 4, 2022 15:58
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Lol why is he whining online when he should be Iron Manning
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People telling advertisers their thoughts is…also free speech?
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Helpless advertisers forced to stop giving me money due to tyrannical free speech haters cruelly using their hands and voices to say things. Sad!
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Zugzwang posted:People telling advertisers their thoughts is…also free speech? I think you'll find that free speech is only okay if I do it. If you do it, that's called oppression.
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It’s not even true, advertisers are just scared shitless that their products are going to be advertised right next to white people saying the N word. They’ve always been terrified of that
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Feels Villeneuve posted:forget that, what is half this forum going to post when it can't be a tweet embed and "lol" can't wait
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Screencap your favorites now, for the end may come sooner than we think 
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Zugzwang posted:People telling advertisers their thoughts is…also free speech? Feels Villeneuve posted:forget that, what is half this forum going to post when it can't be a tweet embed and "lol" 
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ultrafilter posted:I really thought it would take more than a week. Yea he’s trying to skip the circling part and make a dive straight for the drain itself. All for something he impulse bought at a hilarious over-price.
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