Quote (thesnipa @ Nov 18 2024 11:58am)
id say it was objectively bad for the 3/4 or so of the staff that is now gone, although many were paid generous severance. but even in the short term i dont see it as bad for twitter, the ad buyers who fled came back within like 1 year. and the user base is still massive. it was mostly bad headlines, the business still functions fine. you could even argue community notes and transparency offset any of the actual bad things.
Twitter was also stale & didn't innovate until Elon acquired it. It had no new features or functionality for years - their massive bloated staff overhead were mandated to focus on censoring their users instead of improving the service. Now, Elon chopped 80% of the staff overhead, and in a very short period of time barring small hiccups during the turnover, X now has great new features such as live spaces, edit function (although poor), optional paid subscription, and community notes.
It begs the question, what the hell were all the staff doing before? The clear answer is that they were doing nothing except finding posts they didn't like to censor.
This post was edited by El1te on Nov 18 2024 03:50pm