Musk & Twitter
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Cock gun. Aim at foot. Fire.
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Automatically flagged by mistake, prompty unsuspended, code updated.
Looks like a good process for errors to me. Certainly better than the wilfull suspensions at the behest of the FBI in the past.
Elon has talked about how much code they are having to remove, certain accounts have hardcoded rules for them, for example. Wouldn't be surprised if this is legacy code bubbling to the surface.
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@NTA said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
certain accounts have hardcoded rules for them, for example.
The old quick-fix when you didn't have good architecture to begin with...
Probably outsourced to Fujitsu
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@NTA said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
certain accounts have hardcoded rules for them, for example.
The old quick-fix when you didn't have good architecture to begin with...
Worse than that. Activist employees adding code out of change control to suppress individuals and topics they didn't like. There was one guy with a Soviet Union flag behind his desk, I kid you not.
That's the sort of shit that they have to clean out of the code base, will take years.
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@NTA said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
certain accounts have hardcoded rules for them, for example.
The old quick-fix when you didn't have good architecture to begin with...
or you sack 80% of the staff when you take over.
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@Virgil said in Musk & Twitter:
@NTA said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
certain accounts have hardcoded rules for them, for example.
The old quick-fix when you didn't have good architecture to begin with...
or you sack 80% of the staff when you take over.
So you would have kept Soviet Flag guy? He purged the activists, and they had a huge head count of people not actually doing any work (some refused to even come to the office).
Despite people saying since he bought it that it would crash and no longer work with those layoffs, here we are. Traffic is up, they have never launched features at this fast a rate, all with significanlty less staff.
Also worth pointing out WhatsApp, one of the most popular apps in the world has 50 engineers. Why did Twitter need 7000?
He kept the ones doing actual work, and not DEI/Woke Activism and fluff. You know, running a business 101.
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@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
Why did Twitter need 7000?
To impress investors who aren't smart enough to see through your bullshit?
The perception now is he's lost billions, but was it ever worth billions in the first place?
I remember when the icon changed to a for "like". How many PMs were involved in that?
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@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
@Virgil said in Musk & Twitter:
@NTA said in Musk & Twitter:
@Kirwan said in Musk & Twitter:
certain accounts have hardcoded rules for them, for example.
The old quick-fix when you didn't have good architecture to begin with...
or you sack 80% of the staff when you take over.
So you would have kept Soviet Flag guy? He purged the activists, and they had a huge head count of people not actually doing any work (some refused to even come to the office).
To be fair, that's like 80% of the entire western world workforce these days
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@Kirwan said in Tesla Roadster:
MSM has been running a pretty effective smear campaign on him.
Look up his SpaceX all hands meeting from the weekend if you want to see what he’s actually been doing.
And remember that since he bought X he’s now the media’s main competitor. His traffic is up, theirs is down so they are getting desperate in their failing business model.
He also announced the RoboTaxi unveil for August. Doesn’t sound checked out to me.
Not sure where you are getting your idea that X is "medias main competitor" . Its an interesting discussion.
"The social media platform X has lost 71% of its value since it was bought by Elon Musk, according to the mutual fund Fidelity.
Fidelity, which owns a stake in X Holdings, said in a disclosure obtained by Axios that it had marked down the value of its shares by 71.5% since Musk’s purchase.
Musk acquired Twitter for $44bn in October 2022 and renamed the platform X in July 2023. Fidelity’s estimate would place the value of X at about $12.5bn."
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@W32 This is a shame on Fidelity, if true.
The 71% drop in valuation will be put together by a group of people with a complete dislike for what Musk is doing, globally. People who believe in free speech (unless they disagree with it), unlimited DEI (racism against white men) and hold MSM accepted opinions on all the culture wars (bet they attend Free Palestine marches, BLM protests and trans rights).
I can pretty much so guarantee that the valuation committee will look exactly the same as Tommy Hilfiger ad.
I don't agree with all that Musk has done, but a 71% drop in twitter valuation is absurd.
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@MajorRage said in Tesla Roadster:
I don't agree with all that Musk has done, but a 71% drop in twitter valuation is absurd.
ehhh, I suspect it's a conventional valuation - basically if you dropped advertisers and numbers, the value has gone down.
The alternative way is to price on potential - can they corner the online market with their reach; use it for commerce, information, etc. If they nail that, the value is massive.
I don't use twitter, so have no skin in this game. But journalists and a bunch of online active people live and breathe it, and seem to hate Musk with passionate intensity. So I have no idea.
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It's worth noting that Twitter has never generated a profit and lied about the number of active users. Now it's X and breaking even for the first ever (on target for their first ever profit) and is active in purging bots and have added an avalance of new features it's worth less?
Show's how worthless the previous valuation was.
Also, when Musk pushed on the validity of the active user numbers he exposed their corrupt methodology and tried to negotiate a more realistic price and valuation. The activist judge in Delaware forced him to pay the higher figure (and now X is registered in Nevada...)