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twitter is being destroyed

I never understood why people thought that Elon Musk was some sort of genius. It appears that his refusal to pay for Google cloud service bills has caused Twitter to crash, 6 months after he fired most of his experienced staff.
 
Maybe it would have been more appropriate if Elmo carried the other porcelain convenience in that day!

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"you awake from a deep trance, step away from the phone to see your friends & family"
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No matter what you think of the guy, he's right... Who the **** needs to read 6k tweets a day anyhow. It's not healthy..
You're stuck in your "reality" and need to get back to that "fictional" world you live in.....
 
The only way to fix twitter, assuming that's even possible anymore, and further assuming that by "fix" you mean "return to a pre-elon state", would be to offer to rehire all the staff who were fired or quit with at least double the salary, and give them the ability and authority to return things back to the point before Elon.

I don't think they'd all come back though.
 
With all the cost-saving that were realized with letting a large chunk of staff go, you’d think Elmo would be rolling in the dough! (Poppin’ Fresh!)
 
The Mark said:
The only way to fix twitter, assuming that's even possible anymore, and further assuming that by "fix" you mean "return to a pre-elon state", would be to offer to rehire all the staff who were fired or quit with at least double the salary, and give them the ability and authority to return things back to the point before Elon.

I don't think they'd all come back though.
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Keep in mind that Twitter has been losing money almost every year of its existence, and it's been similar to some other platforms. That's why before Musk took over, the company had a shortfall of $3 billion.

If that's the case, why were these companies (including others I remember, like Amazon and Facebook) still operating, receiving more investment funds? It's probably because of financial gambling, where stock prices went up readily.

Now, reality has set in, and companies are imposing more requirements to earn. These include not only Twitter that needs to earn from subscriptions but Reddit charging third parties to use its platform, and Youtube coming up with more means to counter adblockers.

Given that, I don't think they or the view that these platforms are "public spaces" offered for free to the public, will come back.

Eventually, they will go to decentralized platforms where they will face fragmentation and the same operatiing costs.
 
ralfy said:
Keep in mind that Twitter has been losing money almost every year of its existence, and it's been similar to some other platforms. That's why before Musk took over, the company had a shortfall of $3 billion.

If that's the case, why were these companies (including others I remember, like Amazon and Facebook) still operating, receiving more investment funds? It's probably because of financial gambling, where stock prices went up readily.

Now, reality has set in, and companies are imposing more requirements to earn. These include not only Twitter that needs to earn from subscriptions but Reddit charging third parties to use its platform, and Youtube coming up with more means to counter adblockers.

Given that, I don't think they or the view that these platforms are "public spaces" offered for free to the public, will come back.

Eventually, they will go to decentralized platforms where they will face fragmentation and the same operatiing costs.
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That's fair - the business model of collecting data and pushing advertisements to people based on it is facing backlash.
But Elon didn't help matters by changing policies which kept people somewhat loyal to Twitter, like the Blue Check thing. OR if not Musk, whoever made that decision, and whoever made the more recent one of limiting post viewing without paying for the blue check.
 
ralfy said:
Keep in mind that Twitter has been losing money almost every year of its existence, and it's been similar to some other platforms. That's why before Musk took over, the company had a shortfall of $3 billion.

If that's the case, why were these companies (including others I remember, like Amazon and Facebook) still operating, receiving more investment funds? It's probably because of financial gambling, where stock prices went up readily.
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Twitter has had mixed results over the years.
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But Amazon has had spectacular results, except for 2022.

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I wonder if Tweetster could fix its problems by registering a whole shitload of geocities sites and using them to handle the traffic. They could set up a guestbook on each one and move each hashtag to the guestbook.
 
Allan said:
Sales contraction following record covid related sales.
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It didn't just revert to pre-covid profits. But that seems likely part of it.
 
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