They get 3 months severance and probably already know what the market for their services looks like. I wouldn't doubt that many (if not most) do have job offers waiting for them. As I wrote before, the ones that don't are staying. That's not necessarily a good thing.

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When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

Dude paid 44 billion for Twitter, surely all the engineers that are leaving were holding down its value while all the ones staying are going to increase it.

A lot of tears for high dollar workers who will be just fine. This isn’t a JC Penney closing.

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Imagine thinking all those people that were laid off and that are quitting were necessary to the operation of Twitter, when it hasn’t changed one iota since Musk bought it .

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

or healthcare workers, city employees, or anyone that lost their job due to not agreeing to get a vaccine mandated on them. I’m guessing most if not all of those people didn’t get three months severance either.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

"ugh another day on the hellsite bird app" turned into "Twitter saves the lives of trans black lesbians in the Global South" overnight

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Or still pissed Bernie Bros.

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Check out all of us who are experts on Twitter's profitability now.

Try going to the Sox section

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Of course Twitter can carry on for a while with a reduced workforce. Any large (non-service) company could. It’s really a question about the long term effects. Innovation, maintenance, security, expansion are critical to keeping tech-based companies alive. We’ll see how it plays out but the fact that they had to bring in engineers from Tesla and SpaceX to keep things running at Twitter isn’t a good sign.

The number of engineers required to operate Twitter’s critical systems are down to two or even zero, the Washington Post reported. “I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers,” a former employee told the Post. “There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

The blue check army wants Twitter to die so badly. Ain't gonna happen.

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It sucked shit before, it sucks different shit now. Twitter will be fine.

Where else am I gonna get that sweet Zuby content?

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Twitter hasn’t changed at all. It’s the perception that changed.

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Admittedly when any idiot could change their Verified name to whatever they wanted, Twitter was at it's most entertaining in quite some time.

You love saying stuff like this. Why would anybody that actually likes using twitter want it to fail? And why would somebody like me, who doesn't use any social media, care one way or the other about it? I get that it somehow became political - where neo-cons like you and BRogue are suddenly Muskies. Frankly I don't care any more about his political leanings than I did about TLR's. The only difference is I wish TLR would have proven me wrong and turned the Sox into a juggernaut. I truly don't care one way or the other about Musk, Bezos or any of the other Billionaires with outsized egos that think the public should listen to them because they are successful.

FWIW, I actually do admire Musk for his willingness to push the envelope in high-tech industries. He's a risk-taker with a lot of innovative ideas. It's just that he also seems like a bit of a nut-case that has trouble with personal interaction.

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

They want Musk to fail, but are more afraid of it going away.

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If I never have to hear Bernstein welcome a guest on with “you can fin him here on Twitter at” ever again it would be worth it dying.

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Twitter is probably a net positive for how it flattened the playing field between traditional media corps and regular citizens. It wasnt the first thing to flatten the field - there were blogs and other mechanisms before it - but it streamlined things and fueled the growth of a massive interconnected community. It's helped people on the ground report out on rebellions, wars, and other breaking news sort of stuff. Media conglomerates had no choice but to join it lest they lose relevance and share. That's pretty powerful.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY

If I can keep getting my sports and gambling info, I do not care who owns or runs twitter.

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Elon, hero of the proletariat taking on Hollywood?!?!???! Twitter rando, who knows, I didn’t click every link to the movie.

Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or wikipedia where Brianna Wu's "Early Life" section is

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its funny how many guys dont know that rule. its usually the early 20s guys. the first thing they say to a girl "how old are you?" as if theyre both 6. it might be ok when youre teenagers but after that its always a miss. i love seeing the bartenders face when she gets asked that question. inner me is screaming 'dude shes fuckable. thats how old she is'

on the flip side girls get really weirded out when they find out i lied about my age. because they ask me all the time. you dont like that question and neither do it. you lie about it, i will too.

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Well the original tweet thread with the movie account was suspended, that’s no fun.

You are right and that is my point. Prior to Twitter and I am sure for quite awhile after the Score and Bernstein had no interest in social media at all! Purposely avoided it.

Then it was apparent he would be Twitter active and promote that and the show guests Twitters on the radio. He was forced.

Then we were sure the original score was dead and Bernsie was a complete sellout to the master/paycheck.

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It's funny watching all the people who gained their fame hyperventilating about Trump realizing as much as they would like to leave Twitter they can't or they become meaningless again LOL

Well said.

Add in the fact that Elon appears to be a complete ego-maniac and self-serving fraud. I take nothing away from his intelligence and innovation, but he's also full of shit. I've actually met some 20 somethings and they think the guy walks on water...it's kind of sad.

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