Elon Musk

well from the stories coming out of Twitter it seems like he is killing it because he has no idea to use what he has bought. He is a dinosaur in a world of agile modern animals. His bully boy idea of " come into work, work harder and work longer or you can leave" in a country where there are more vacancies than workers just show's his mindset is that of 20 years ago when the reverse was the case. I mean young adaptable skilled and enthusiastic IT specialists are always going to find some other work as I am sure there are many businesses crying out for them.

Quite the autumn - the Tories burn a whole country and Musk blows $44bn - I sense a KLF comeback and Xmas number one
 
It wasn't even the right mindset 20 years ago. Pushing people to work harder and longer can work in an industry where you are spitting out widgets, but many of the roles at Twitter require quality and innovation rather than quantity. You need employees who feel fresh, empowered, valued and engaged in what the company is doing to produce quality, innovative products. Just telling people to work harder will result in mediocre outputs so that they hit performance targets.

There's a reason that the innovative startups have pool tables, consoles, food bars, etc. in them and the large companies that struggle to innovate have bean counted those things away.
 
Gaudion M said:
The chaos is real. But it's an automated thing so no one knows how long it can go on without the techies who work on it. How many bumps in the road were they dealing with and how many can they deal with right now?

There is also the regulatory and legal side - many issues could come out of the wood work. Those people who had jobs were all doing something.
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Rumours are that a lot of "critical" staff have left. They weren't prepared to get on board with this "hard core reset".
 
Irwell said:
It wasn't even the right mindset 20 years ago. Pushing people to work harder and longer can work in an industry where you are spitting out widgets, but many of the roles at Twitter require quality and innovation rather than quantity. You need employees who feel fresh, empowered, valued and engaged in what the company is doing to produce quality, innovative products. Just telling people to work harder will result in mediocre outputs so that they hit performance targets.
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I read somewhere that his working method at Tesla/SpaceX etc., was to rapidly prototype as many options as possible, until things worked, and that it was relatively successful. This seems to be what he's doing at Twitter, and I assume his thinking is that if you keep cutting wires without knowing what the result it, you might need someone to turn up at 3am in the morning to reconnect the one that turned out to be essential.

Given that he's apparently managed to lock himself out of the building, and had to get someone he'd just sacked to let them back in, he probably does need a ready supply of people who are stupid enough to agree.

He's an idiot who had far too high a sense of his own self-importance, and I'd be happy to see him crash and burn with this.
 
Irwell said:
It wasn't even the right mindset 20 years ago. Pushing people to work harder and longer can work in an industry where you are spitting out widgets, but many of the roles at Twitter require quality and innovation rather than quantity. You need employees who feel fresh, empowered, valued and engaged in what the company is doing to produce quality, innovative products. Just telling people to work harder will result in mediocre outputs so that they hit performance targets.

There's a reason that the innovative startups have pool tables, consoles, food bars, etc. in them and the large companies that struggle to innovate have bean counted those things away.
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The reality is that they probably weren't very innovative anyway, behemoths of tech "outsource" their innovation to the companies they buy out.

Still stupid to sack so much of your workforce when you rely on their skills to integrate the acquired technology within your infrastructure.

List of mergers and acquisitions by Twitter - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

Hopefully it crashes and burns and Musk loses control of his business empire to people with better grasp of reality. Maybe his great sacrifice will inadvertently save humanity as he intended.
 
I see the doge bunker has a blue tick. About time they were confirmed legit.

Edit: when I see the tweet on twitter it has a tick when I post here it doesn't. I'm sure they get this fixed no problem.

 
domalino said:
Your inability to avoid nicknames anyone over 13 would be embarrassed to use tells us everything we need to know about you.

It will probably take 10 years for a perfect clone to get near what twitter was 2 weeks ago.
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You said “a brief moment in time”. Now you say ten years. Make your mind up.
 
KS55 said:
You said “a brief moment in time”. Now you say ten years. Make your mind up.
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Someone will create something to fill the void very quickly (something called POST is in testing, Dorsey has BlueSky) , it will take a decade to build up the userbase and institutional trust that twitter built up since 2006.
 
Gaudion M said:
I see the doge bunker has a blue tick. About time they were confirmed legit.

Edit: when I see the tweet on twitter it has a tick when I post here it doesn't. I'm sure they get this fixed no problem.

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It’s frustrating though
So many could jump ship that don’t need Twitter - yet he’s got everyone talking and intrigued and it’s probably getting more users than ever
 
domalino said:
Someone will create something to fill the void very quickly (something called POST is in testing, Dorsey has BlueSky) , it will take a decade to build up the userbase and institutional trust that twitter built up since 2006.
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Nice try, but just ducking and diving.
“Institutional trust” ha! All the advertisers have suspended, lenders circling, governments looking closely at regulation, Tesla worried, prominent tweeters leaving for other platforms.I suspect that, after his nonsensical tweets on Ukraine and Taiwan, nobody has much trust in his judgement at all. He is Oedipus and you are a charlatan.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
It’s frustrating though
So many could jump ship that don’t need Twitter - yet he’s got everyone talking and intrigued and it’s probably getting more users than ever
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I imagine many of the new users aren't real. Even on this thread alone you can see extracts where people see the chance to either make jokes or punchlines at the situarion under fun new accounts. Many I would guess are temporary.
 
KS55 said:
Nice try, but just ducking and diving.
“Institutional trust” ha! All the advertisers have suspended, lenders circling, governments looking closely at regulation, Tesla worried, prominent tweeters leaving for other platforms.I suspect that, after his nonsensical tweets on Ukraine and Taiwan, nobody has much trust in his judgement at all. He is Oedipus and you are a charlatan.
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What the fuck are you blathering on about now?

Are you trying to debate the fact twitter had institutional trust? It's every government in the world's main platform for public announcements.

Why are you talking about stuff happening after Musk has taken over when I specifically mentioned I was talking about twitter Pre-Musk takeover?

Go back to making up childish nicknames, following a conversation and writing in full sentences is obviously beyond you.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
It’s frustrating though
So many could jump ship that don’t need Twitter - yet he’s got everyone talking and intrigued and it’s probably getting more users than ever
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Yes but I've seen a few balanced people suggesting that the reality is that twitter will just get steadily more toxic and less trusted. Wile it looks like a dumpster fire right now it will most likely continue to function. And will be much the same. But longer term if official accounts can't feel secure on it they will leave and as the official sources leave it becomes a self fulfilled race to the bottom. I've stopped posting as much as I'm not sure having a profile on their is worth the hassle. I've got circa 1,500 followers on twitter. I'm not deleting yet but I view it very differently.
 
Musk taking a sledgehammer to Twitter is no bad thing. Its only a business like any other. Mostly it’s used by nut jobs who spread misinformation. What’s left? Celebrities telling us how to live.

No big loss to the world. We didn’t have it before and if it goes some other shit platform will appear. Can’t see Musk being that stupid. He is probably ten steps ahead.
 
wolviedinho said:
Musk taking a sledgehammer to Twitter is no bad thing. Its only a business like any other. Mostly it’s used by nut jobs who spread misinformation. What’s left? Celebrities telling us how to live.

No big loss to the world. We didn’t have it before and if it goes some other shit platform will appear. Can’t see Musk being that stupid. He is probably ten steps ahead.
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Wow, that’s so much bollocks in one post. Bravo.
 
domalino said:
What the fuck are you blathering on about now?

Are you trying to debate the fact twitter had institutional trust? It's every government in the world's main platform for public announcements.

Why are you talking about stuff happening after Musk has taken over when I specifically mentioned I was talking about twitter Pre-Musk takeover?

Go back to making up childish nicknames, following a conversation and writing in full sentences is obviously beyond you.
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You’re still a charlatan.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
It’s frustrating though
So many could jump ship that don’t need Twitter - yet he’s got everyone talking and intrigued and it’s probably getting more users than ever
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They‘ll log in once and then call it a day, unless he has something spectacular up his sleeve, which I doubt.
 
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