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[EuchreJack]

He seems hell bent on destroying twitter, which seems weird after how much money he just spent on buying it.

He's probably just angling for the Taxpayer Bailout.  Twitter is Too Big To Fail.
The fact that Government Officials use it means it's plausible.

[MaxTheFox]

He introduced a paywall AND destroyed the verification system helping trolls (and scammers) of various kinds. I didn't expect such a level of idiocy...

This shistorm proves to me (once again) that Musk has three skills that made him a very rich man. Namely: creating hype, manipulating stock markets, getting access to Taxpayers' money

Also daddy's Apartheid money.

[Starver]

Five years ago.. To the day!

(...and nine years ago, tomorrow, which is somewhat relevent, but more adding this to the post because of the near-date...)

[anewaname]

Yeah Musk... Why wasn't it done yesterday?

[Egan_BW]

He seems hell bent on destroying twitter, which seems weird after how much money he just spent on buying it.

He's just taking this thread's title to heart.

[Frumple]

Huh. Apparently their chief information security officer, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned in the last day or two. Chatter's saying the software engineers are going to be personally responsible for keeping their work compliant with FTC regs and whatnot.

... if that sounds like the recipe for a dumpster fire to you, well. Yeah, probably.

[King Zultan]

I thought that twitter was already a dumpster fire, and Elon was just adding more flaming dumpsters to the pile.

[Telgin]

Huh. Apparently their chief information security officer, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned in the last day or two. Chatter's saying the software engineers are going to be personally responsible for keeping their work compliant with FTC regs and whatnot.

... if that sounds like the recipe for a dumpster fire to you, well. Yeah, probably.

As a web developer who has had to brush with dealing with FTC regulations and compliance, I can guarantee that this means that regulations and compliance will not be maintained.  A few developers will probably try, but there's no way they're going to be willing and able to deal with it all on top of actually programming.  Especially considering that they all have to work that much harder since so many were fired for using a stupid metric (lines of code written) that nobody has seriously used for 40 years.

[Frumple]

So current chatter I'm seeing is that something like 75% of the remaining workforce has walked off after an asinine ultimatum from Musk. Near as folks can puzzle out, there's somewhere around <1k employees left, from a workforce count of ~7.5k a month or two ago.

The world cup starts sunday. The last time it came around, it took that entire >7k roster to keep twitter running. There's fairly solid odds the website is going to be down for an extended period in the near future, heh.

[JoshuaFH]

I saw something on Reddit that stated that all Twitter Office Buildings are closed and badge access is revoked for all employees, ostensibly to prevent sabotage by employees? Oh Elon, you unlovable dullard.

[Great Order]

Elon finally did some good. He's killing Twitter.

[EuchreJack]

Elon finally did some good. He's killing Twitter.

Just watch as the US government bails his ass out ...

[Travis Bickle]

Yeah I'm sure Twitter is totally dead for real this time.

[Frumple]

Elon finally did some good. He's killing Twitter.

Just watch as the US government bails his ass out ...

The sauds are apparently one of the biggest debt holders involved in the purchase, so it might not be the US gov't that does it if government intervention gets involved

[Telgin]

Elon finally did some good. He's killing Twitter.

Just watch as the US government bails his ass out ...

Well, the government can't save Twitter at least.  Doesn't matter how much money they throw at the problem if all of the domain knowledge walked out of the door.