Elon Musk buys and ruins Twitter

[bluethrunthru]

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

 

[Irwell]

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.

 

[jimharri]

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.

Rumours are that a lot of "critical" staff have left. They weren't prepared to get on board with this "hard core reset".

 

[bluenova]

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.

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.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

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.

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

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.

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

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.

 

[KS55]

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.

You said “a brief moment in time”. Now you say ten years. Make your mind up.

 

[domalino]

You said “a brief moment in time”. Now you say ten years. Make your mind up.

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.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Mad ****

 

[BlueHammer85]

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.

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