3476

I’ve made my semi-serious opinion on this known before in the thread, but I’m pretty sure he’s on rails right now.

3477

Micromanagement hell.

3478

Hardcore micromanagement!

3479

And other wannabe Masters of the Universe. I can totally see all the idiots out there, from CEOs to “entrepreneurs” to middle managers, deciding that firing everyone but the “hardcore” staff is the way to go. It won’t even take Twitter 2.0 succeeding, just not immediately falling apart, for a lot of stupid people whose only success is in riding the coattails of and/or taking credit for the work of others to decide this is the new paradigm that will propel them forward.

I literally have a meeting about to start with our “throw spaghetti at the wall” department. We have to further monetize our users and to do so we need to test new products and features. It doesn’t matter what the products and features actually are, just that we have a lot of them and we test them quickly. So we’re already working on a model similar to Twitter 2.0. I so can’t wait to retire from tech.

3480

Elon loves him some sweet code samples.

3481

I think you can make the case that social media is our culture now, or fast becoming it.

3482

After all, he named his kid one.

3483

Code samples. Via email. Well that’s going to be a lot of unread email. Elon is having such a major mid life crisis he has become nostalgic for when he fancied himself a programmer.

3485

Maybe human relationships will come back kind of like how vinyl did.

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3487

I was thinking the same thing. He’s going to read 500 code sample emails every week? He will read 10-20 and maybe fire a couple of people every week when he doesn’t like their code sample. He’s just a little dictator. We need a new Charlie Chaplin to lampoon him.

3488

Well, these are not exactly new concepts in management (lean organization, etc…), and they are not necessarily bad per se, it’s only that Elmo (and perhaps your company) has taken it to an up to eleven and on drugs level that goes, imho, far beyond the original idea and misses the point.

So there’s no method to the madness, and I think it’s likely it’s making way more harm than good (I know, hot take), but perhaps there’s a sliver of truth in the initial analysis. It’s likely Twitter had many, many more employees than it was healthy for the type of product they offered.

3489

Of course Twitter had too many employees for its post-Musk mission. But you don’t solve that problem by first firing a random half of the staff, and then purging the people with arbitrary loyalty tests.

You do it by actually analyzing the product, the systems, and the organizations. What functions do you really need, who are the people / teams / systems needed to perform those functions, and how do you safely turn down the things you no longer need? And for the things you think you can cut, you try to understand why they were implemented in the first place. Were they e.g. critical for regulatory compliance? Musk had six months to do that, and didn’t.

3490

Stop making sense.

3491
3492

Well said good sir!

3493

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/22/twitter-advertiser-exodus-musk/

For the paywalled:

3494

Advertisers are skittish like that, but the important bit isn’t that they left. It’s when/how they come back. If the Twitter drama dies down, which is what I expect, then the advertisers will return.

3495

Anecdotally I’ve had several friends tell me that they received memo’s that corporate policy is now to avoid all advertising and integration with Twitter, effective immediately.

Its not just the drama, but that the product is in flux, there are security concerns, they lost their sales contacts, etc. Musk is going to have to do a lot of work to convince other companies that its worth investing time into Twitter again and that its stable.

3496