Musk celebrates new Twitter usage high as engineers flee company

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Musk celebrates Twitter high score as staff rush for the door

Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk tweeted out an upbeat message saying the company beat its all-time high in usage late Thursday, on a day when many employees decided to leave the company.

It was the second time in a week that the social network set a record, according to Musk, who said it hit its highest-ever number of daily active users on Nov. 11.

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Musk celebrates Twitter high score as staff rush for the door

Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk tweeted out an upbeat message saying the company beat its all-time high in usage late Thursday, on a day when many employees decided to leave the company.

It was the second time in a week that the social network set a record, according to Musk, who said it hit its highest-ever number of daily active users on Nov. 11.

[Bloomberg]
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The deck of the Titanic was probably at it's highest usage just before it sank.
 
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The new leader has since reversed several decisions he’s made, including recalling some laid-off staff who were working on features he wanted to add.
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Musk sounds like an absolute nightmare to have as a boss, and not just at Twitter: similar stories from SpaceX and Tesla employees.

While I'm not a Twitter fanboi, if I were one of the Twitter staffers that Musk had kicked to the curb and decided to try and reverse his decision, I would tell him where to shove his new features.

I wouldn't be surprised if Musk gets himself into the history and textbooks as the person that spent the most money ever on killing a company in the shortest time.
 
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I see Alexa has lost Amazon 10 billion dollars as well.
Obviously musk has no idea what he's doing at amazon. What a pleb.
 
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Does he not realize that the majority of the people watching and using twitter again is there to what the @#@@#! storm unfold?
 
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j4ck455 said:
Musk sounds like an absolute nightmare to have as a boss, and not just at Twitter: similar stories from SpaceX and Tesla employees.

While I'm not a Twitter fanboi, if I were one of the Twitter staffers that Musk had kicked to the curb and decided to try and reverse his decision, I would tell him where to shove his new features.

I wouldn't be surprised if Musk gets himself into the history and textbooks as the person that spent the most money ever on killing a company in the shortest time.
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It is undisputed that he is a boss from hell.
However why Twitter? Maybe it was his intention to kill the platform?
 
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Does he not realize that the majority of the people watching and using twitter again is there to what the @#@@#! storm unfold?
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Nope. He is not as smart and successful as you are.
 
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No doubt that place has years of worthless Silicon Valley bloat to cull.

Based on experience working for big companies for years, there's usually a ratio between a person who's actually keeping the train on the rails and the bulls**t jobs that surrounds them, anywhere from 1 vs. 2-5... it's also definitely gotten worse over the past 20 years, I can only imagine what these Silicon Valley types built on stupid investor money are like.

But that being said, let's see what it would be like if you're actually one of the core people who work and has worked their nuts off over the years:

- No remote work for people who'd actually benefit from it while benefitting the company because the owner has a chip on his shoulder and an image to hold up.
- Long hard working hours promised, for someone else's toy.
- A "vision" from a guy who keeps building himself up as the hardest worker and smartest man on the planet while he actually has very little knowledge in specific fields and spends a lot of his time trolling Twitter and massaging his image in interviews.
- A loose cannon culture that can fire you at any moment, no matter what your role or output was.
- Constant hair comb scrutiny from the media on the product, owner and politics of the thing you're working on.

On the one hand, I can agree with the purge he's embarking on, it might ever work in the long run, but, on the other, if it were me I'd take that job and shove it up the nearest Billionaire's arse.

Regardless though, it's hard to imagine twitter failing... there's waaaay too much addiction and need driving that thing.
 
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PaulMurkin said:
It is undisputed that he is a boss from hell.
However why Twitter? Maybe it was his intention to kill the platform?
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If Musk's intention was always to kill off Twitter, he could have done it without buying Twitter and throwing money down the drain.

Musk's original decision to buy Twitter and everything that followed was arguably ill conceived, and while his reasoning is far from clear, it doesn't seem like he wanted to buy Twitter as an investment but rather to change Twitter from the inside even if it meant burning Twitter to the ground.

To me it all just seems like a pointless waste of time and money.
 
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