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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



The Saddest Rhino posted:

what does that whole series of tweets mean

It means Elon shouldn't have fired everyone and the few people he didn't fire are overworked and moving outside of their expertise in a way that poo poo is hosed up.

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priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Data Graham posted:

Sounds like Elon is replacing all Twitter devs with his champion ringer devs from Tesla who are all obviously better

*twitter accelerates at 80mph down the street into a group of schoolchildren crossing street*

Slotducks
Oct 16, 2008

Nobody puts Phil in a corner.


can't wait for 140px panel gaps to suddenly appear on the notifications tab

Hihohe
Oct 4, 2008

Fuck you and the sun you live under


https://twitter.com/RightWingCope/status/1592161611984535552?t=5xFJCCW7reuWROAD7c8v6A&s=19

Elerion
May 31, 2011

Data Graham posted:

Sounds like Elon is replacing all Twitter devs with his champion ringer devs from Tesla who are all obviously better

Why do the wheels turn on my parked car when I tweet?

Verdugo
Jan 5, 2009


Lipstick Apathy

Entropic posted:

This is smart, with the reach they get from being the main advertiser on Twitter, they can sell a ton of $67M rockets to cryptobro shitposters.

Use code "ChiefTwit" for 15% off your Raycon Earbuds when you go to https://www.rayconglobal.com/musk and...

Space Kablooey
May 6, 2009


RPATDO_LAMD posted:

The ones building the rocket are the swindlers, they are running a ponzi cryptocurrency for stupid rubes. They are selling the narrative that "after we deliver this big ugly goat statue to elon musk, goatcoin will get tons of publicity and the price will go up uP UP!!! buy goatcoins now so you can 10x your money before it's too late!"

Now on first hearing this you might think "that's insanely stupid, nobody would be dumb enough to fall for that, you must be explaining it wrong".

Oh no I'm familiar how these crypto ponzi operates

Roblo
Dec 10, 2007

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/14/elon-musk-twitter-job-cuts-tesla-takeover

"Musk says he has 'too much in plate'"

Well who's fault is that, moron. Looks to me like he's starting to break. Much like, it seems, twitter.

Ups_rail
Dec 8, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

Roblo posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/14/elon-musk-twitter-job-cuts-tesla-takeover

"Musk says he has 'too much in plate'"

Well who's fault is that, moron. Looks to me like he's starting to break. Much like, it seems, twitter.

I remember when he said that twitter could print money, if it was just ran correctly. Turns out he had jack and poo poo. Or maybe crashing twitter is part of some scam.

Justin Credible
Aug 27, 2003

happy cat


Well he is starting a trial initiated by Tesla shareholder challenging his compensation package today. In Delaware. They want to 'nullify' his compensation package, whatever that means.

Hardcastlemccormik
Jul 19, 2022

To basically translate this tweet series, it means that making any change to live Twitter code is now not allowed and also not possible.

The latter is weird. Companies usually don’t make it impossible to make changes because why would you cut off employees like that? They’re not children, they’re professionals. (Well. Most of them.) But if there are systems submitting new Twitter code automatically, that would explain it.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
They probably don't want the engineers they're about to fire burning everything down on their way out.

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

The Saddest Rhino posted:

what does that whole series of tweets mean
They fired everybody who understood how their Git change management worked. The ghost in the machine is pushing patches that are experimental or proposed but not approved. So they just turned it all off and now a manager already working 20 hours a day needs to review every change personally like it's 1999 and we haven't had 2 decades of deployment management software and expertise developed.

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



quote:

Asked what it felt like to be a “media mogul” after buying Twitter he said: “It is a medium as opposed to media"

OH MY GOD this loving dweeb

Roseo
Jun 1, 2000
Forum Veteran

John Wick of Dogs posted:

Wait, is this a Trojan horse situation? Cause that seems like a Trojan horse situation. A bunch of guys are gonna pop out of that thing after they turn off the lights and sack his corporate offices.

Nah, that monstrosity has big pop out of the thing and jerk off in Elon's office energy.

Hardcastlemccormik
Jul 19, 2022
The part about automated systems is speculation. It could also be a power play to control what goes into Twitter. We know there are significant fights happening internally so someone might have just pulled the switch. Either the Musk faction who doesn’t trust the old Twitter employees and think they’re incompetent, or the Elon stans from his other companies are pushing such poo poo code that the infra team was tired of them breaking poo poo

mysterious frankie
Jan 11, 2009

This displeases Dev- ..van. Shut up.
All the Elon firing news makes me really appreciate working in a lumbering, byzantine, publicly traded corporation.

Could I get fired in 2023 if the recession continues apace? Yes.

Could I get fired not for cause, but rather because the shareholders demand mass sacrifices for Number? Almost assuredly.

Will I see it coming and have time to prepare? Most likely.

If I get fired will the CEO himself let me know day of via an emoji laden Tweet and clumsy repurposing of the Press F to Pay Respects meme? Probably not.

Ups_rail
Dec 8, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

mysterious frankie posted:

All the Elon firing news makes me really appreciate working in a lumbering, byzantine, publicly traded corporation.

Could I get fired in 2023 if the recession continues apace? Yes.

Could I get fired not for cause, but rather because the shareholders demand mass sacrifices for Number? Almost assuredly.

Will I see it coming and have time to prepare? Most likely.

If I get fired will the CEO himself let me know day of via an emoji laden Tweet and clumsy repurposing of the Press F to Pay Respects meme? Probably not.

but will there be sinks?

sticksy
May 26, 2004
Nap Ghost

TACD posted:

wanna know how I got these cars?

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
A sink thrown out of an upper story window would be cool.

RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆

god please help me posted:

What ai image generator is this? Who's been feeding elon sample images into the anime generator? I have prompts to input.

That's Anything-V3.0, a version of stable diffusion trained by Chinese anime nerds on Baidu

Offler
Mar 27, 2010

Zamboni Rodeo posted:

Easy enough.



That's beautiful.

This could probably be turned into a series featuring all of the failsons and faildaughters stomping around.

Handgun Hannah for the armorer on that Alec Baldwin movie that somehow left a live round in a gun on a movie set on her first gig as the main armorer is the first one I can think of, but there must be dozens more.

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Every member of the Trump family?

Stink Billyums
Jul 7, 2006

MAGNUM
https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1592128082756141056

Almost Smart
Sep 14, 2001

so your telling me you wasn't drunk or fucked up in anyway. when you had sex with me and that monkey

Justin Credible posted:

Well he is starting a trial initiated by Tesla shareholder challenging his compensation package today. In Delaware. They want to 'nullify' his compensation package, whatever that means.

I doubt they’ll have a hard time proving that elon isn’t living up to his obligations. Maybe tweet timestamps will be the next thing on the chopping block; it’s gonna be hard trying to convince a judge you’re focused on your duties as CEO when there’s a hefty trail of poo poo posts coming from you all day every day.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug
The SpaceX ad buy doesn't even remotely make up for the losses either.

Barudak
May 7, 2007


Lmao, if they're anything like their rivals budgets ol Elon is gonna need about a million new 8 dollar check mark buyers to make up that shortfall

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

Holy poo poo, indeed.

I thought Twitter was hosed from losing half its staff. Now they've lost 80%?

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Holy poo poo, indeed.

I thought Twitter was hosed from losing half its staff. Now they've lost 80%?

80% of their outsourced staff, but yeah that's a significant amount.

ElGroucho
Nov 1, 2005

We already - What about sticking our middle fingers up... That was insane
Fun Shoe
Love to prop up one of businesses with ad buys from another business

Classic Good Business 301 move

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



But I was told their panic-drop in stock price had nothing to do with the tweet

Slotducks
Oct 16, 2008

Nobody puts Phil in a corner.


Enron Twitter: The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind

Waffle House
Oct 27, 2004

You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.


"I can just bumble through this, lay people off without warning. Its fine. It's forgiveable."

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
Now how will they get in on Elon's double targeted ads? Exclusive access to every user whose bank account can be illegally linked to an insurance provider. Selling dick pills to old perverts who follow porn accounts, diet suppressors to those with eating disorder chat in their DMs, brain pills to the ones who are being relentlessly cyberbullied (on twitter).

The options are endless if you're not limited by consumer protection laws (because you choose not to be).

kw0134
Apr 19, 2003

I buy feet pics🍆

Data Graham posted:

But I was told their panic-drop in stock price had nothing to do with the tweet
Honestly? Probably not, but it likely shocked them to review their relationship because why wouldn't it? A lot of things like this are run on autopilot until you have reason to review it -- and when the looked up they didn't like what they saw.

Xakura
Jan 10, 2019

A safety-conscious little mouse!

Data Graham posted:

But I was told their panic-drop in stock price had nothing to do with the tweet

both can be true

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

did they ever turn eightbux back on?

RPATDO_LAMD
Mar 22, 2013

🐘🪠🍆
"""brand safety""" is 99% fake made-up bullshit
but so is internet advertising in general

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
That contract group would probably have most of their international moderation staff, right? World cup twitter should be fun with zero oversight.

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Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo

kazil posted:

did they ever turn eightbux back on?

Hope it happens before the world cup starts up, should get us done quality content for the fake thread before Twitter melts down

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