Elon Cleaning House

For the 10,000th time, Elon already announced public figures will have a second verification tag. You won’t be able to impersonate a celebrity by paying $8 a month any easier than you can now.

 

I searched the entire forum and this post is the only place the phrase where the phrase “second verification tag” is found…. Something tells me you might be lying about it being said 10,000 times….

Anyway, being able to pick any celebrity name and keep your blue check mark is pretty bad. I mean, I could pay $8 and change my name to Fox News or Florida Governor and start blasting out the n-word… Not that I would…

Elon should fix that huge, stupid mistake, instead of you trying to convince me it’s okay because there might be a second checkmark somewhere…

 

Some examples of layoffs in big tech although none are anywhere remotely close to Elon Musk's massive workforce reduction at Twitter.
A Host of Tech Companies Announce Hiring Freezes and Job Cuts

 

Again, our resident cyber-experts on THFSG know better how to run multi-billion dollar tech company than a multi-billionaire, highly successful tech executive, who happens to be the richest man in the world. If I could send you a cookie for your immense hubris, I would.

 

I’m an active investor. I’m aware of minor layoffs here and there. Big tech has not had significant layoffs this year. Big tech firms have an order of magnitude more employees than Twitters paltry 7500 er 3700 employees. Generally them only thing going on with big tech is a pause in employment.
Amazon may be one to watch next year. They need to get rid of a lot of people. They basically doubled their work force during the pandemic. They pretty good with attrition though as it’s a hell scape to work there.

 

I do rather enjoy how Musk seemed to conflate the layoffs with the cancel-culture squeeze in advertising, but the reality is, he telegraphed and has been planning these layoffs for a long time now. In fact, I believe the initial number being floated was 75% reduction in force. He ended up doing 50%, so maybe he does have a heart??

 

What are you taking about? that is such a dumb response, even for you. I passed along an observation from other people in the tech work who have apparently seen the Beta version. You jumped in with some half ass attempt at an explanation that doesn’t even make sense. What is the purpose of giving anyone who will pay $8/mo a blue checkmark to verify their name if they can immediately change their name. Seems like Elon is more interested in the $8 than actual name verification.

 

I will pass along your contact info to Elon in a DM. If you have a direct email address, let me know. Elon needs your help to save Twitter.

 

At least you stopped trying to act like this is the right way to do verification… so good for you on that…

 

Honestly, I would yield to Elon on that. He is good friends with Dorsey and is extremely intelligent and successful. I would feel foolish attempting to advise him on what to do with the verification check marks on Twitter. How many billion dollar companies have you started? I am sitting on zero myself.

 

That would be an unbelievably dumb move. Why would somebody pay $8 to get a check mark that isn't even the real check mark? It was a pretty risky move thinking that people would pay for the real verification, but a fake version that smart readers will recognize as the fake version pretty quickly? Yeah...he needs to quit spit balling ideas in public and try to think about the ideas a bit before telling everybody. But, it is his money, and if he doesn't want to run these ideas behind people in the industry first, that is his right...

 

I’m sure he would benefit from your expert advice.

 

He needs somebody's expert advice. Let me know if you can find experts who think it is a good idea to lose a huge chunk of your advertisers or to announce pricing plans without the details even remotely thought out ahead of time. I suspect you would struggle to find experts in the industry that think those are good ideas.

 

He needs you, man. You’re the expert. You know all. Imagine the lift you can provide the stock market with your advice to Musk. You can change the world. You’re so smart.

 

Well, first, the company is now private, so it has nothing to do with the stock market (where should I send you my bill for very basic services rendered?). Second, none of this is very advanced knowledge.

 

That is so obviously false, it’s stupid

 

He intends to bring the company public again at some point in the future. You can increase the company’s value ten-fold. You know more than Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey. My only question is why you’ve not yet started your own social media conglomerate? You are so wise and you would easily outmaneuver the likes of Musk.

 

Around Elon’s social crowd, the tech moguls, it’s become an article of faith that all of the companies have twice the employees they need. That’s some of the background noise that factored into his big layoffs without serious planning or thought.

Yglesias wrote this on November 1

I’m not exactly sure why this happened, but roughly a year ago there was a substantial vibe shift in Silicon Valley which holds that most large technology companies are massively overstaffed. Multiple CEOs of privately held tech companies have voiced this critique of their larger peers to me. They’ve also criticized the venture capital community for encouraging excessively rapid headcount growth, but some influential VCs are now saying they agree with this. And there seems to be some competition to engage in the highest possible estimates of overstaffing. Marc Andreessen says the good big companies should lay off half their staff and the bad ones are worse.


Nat Friedman, the investor and former CEO of GitHub, says “many tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed.”

Elon Musk needs to make Twitter better

Plus the fact that for a lot of right wingers, it was just a desire to see people that work at Twitter suffer. Elon is obviously deep in that world such that he believes a lot of stupid stuff.

 

Is he the richest man in the world anymore? Tesla stock is down by nearly 50% in the past year and he just paid $44 billion for a company that is losing more than a billion dollars per year.