doobyedoobye
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I'm pretty sure all will be well with Twitter soon..
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Elon Musk buys and ruins Twitter
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Gareth Barry Conlon
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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?So; are rumours of its imminent implosion greatly exaggerated, or what? Stories of staff jumping ship in droves?
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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With Twitter offices closed for the foreseeable future, it begs the question as to whether the staff have been locked in or locked out.
Your last sentence belies your first. If someone can fill the void so quickly, it shows that Twatter is essentially valueless.This isn’t really true at all.
For starters, Twitter is one of the biggest communications tools on the planet, to say it has no intrinsic value is beyond silly.
The US government is currently scrambling to find new ways of making public announcements, because there is nothing better for releasing official news than twitter. We know it had an integral role in the Arab Spring. It’s playing a massive role in getting info out of Iran now, we are all able to follow Ukrainian journalists in the war and read their tweets translated in app to keep us appraised of things that no war correspondent could show.
One of the few things Musk is right about is that it democratised news. These things are valuable literally in terms of money, but also culturally.
It also brings people and communities together, in the same way this forum does, and I think we can all agree Bluemoon does have some value because of that.
Secondly it literally had value as an advertising platform and was making profits off that. 250m daily users is one of the biggest advertising platforms in history and like radio, tv, the adverts down the side of this page, that has value, it’s why the company was worth over $11Bn and growing and employed 7,000+ people.
These benefits far outweigh any perceived toxicity, and if it does actually go belly up, the world will be worse off for the brief moment in time before someone fills the void with a copy of it.
SWP's back
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Yep, he has a few billion liquid, the remainder is in (still hugely) over valued TSLA stock.But isn't Elon's personal fortune mostly in devalued shares and stock options and the like now ?
Your last sentence belies your first. If someone can fill the void so quickly, it shows that Twatter is essentially valueless.
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.
SWP's back
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Yes, but Elon thanked himHe's a parody account.
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3 out of 4 employees have left since he took over. It’s a skeleton staff now working and Musk has drafted in software engineers from SpaceX to try and keep it running over the weekend.So; are rumours of its imminent implosion greatly exaggerated, or what? Stories of staff jumping ship in droves?
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They way he’s handling Twitter, I’m definitely warming to the thought of him taking over from the Glazers.
Gareth Barry Conlon
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The tech side is one element.3 out of 4 employees have left since he took over. It’s a skeleton staff now working and Musk has drafted in software engineers from SpaceX to try and keep it running over the weekend.
If he has no HR how can he pay the people he has left / or hire new people?
If he has no Finance how can he pay his suppliers - how does he know what invoices are genuine. How can he file his annual accounts?
If he has no legal people how does he manage the legal and regulatory issues, there will no doubt be many old burning issues - who is on top of them?
If he has no sales people how can he get back to selling ads?
Some of this might be slow burning issues but it will start to hit home. Its much easier to wreck this stuff than build it back up.