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Merged Musk buys Twitter!/ Elon Musk puts Twitter deal on hold....

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wareyin said:
Me too, in a heartbeat. 3 months pay and the ability to get out before Twitter crashes and burns? Sign me up.
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Yup, and there is the strong possibility that he'd find he needs your expertise and you'd be able to come back as a contractor on far higher wages and on your terms.

dudalb said:
I would be torn between taking the severence pay and waiting until I had another job lined up, but I would certainly be planning on leaving.
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Suddenly said:
Elon is going to learn the concept of "soft quitting" the hard way.
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He's also going to find out about European employment law the hard way.
 
tyr_13 said:
Because it isn't a good buy right now as evidenced by all the advertisers fleeing it.
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They're not fleeing from it because there are no people looking at Twitter.
It has a lot of views on what is likely a dead-cat bounce, but how many will it have when it stops working for lots of people?
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It said it was an excellent ad-buy right now. At some point, the Musk-Twit show will be over and then it will not be a good ad-buy. But right now this week, Twitter probably has more mDAUs than ever.
 
Ziggurat said:
Why do you assume that it will stop working? On a purely technical level, it doesn't seem like what Twitter is doing is difficult. How many people do you really need to keep the servers running?
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It's a slightly different scale to your vanity web server. The infrastructure required to run Twitter is massive. They used to have a whole team dedicated to making sure that the app stayed up. That team is now gone.

At the same time, Musk is having features added and removed more or less on a whim and he's also Tweeted that only 20% of Twitter's micro services are needed and he's going to start ripping out the ones that he thinks are unnecessary.

Musk has also said that they need to reduce infrastructure costs, so that means fewer server, each of which will be under more load.

What impact all that will have remains to be seen, but expect Twitter to become less reliable.
 
Suddenly said:
I keep forgetting the country with the monarchy is somehow now less feudalist than the one that rejected same.
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Not so much if you're referring to the UK. One of the drivers of Brexit was to be free of the EU's oppressive (to employers) employment legislation.

If you're talking about Spain, The Netherlands, Denmark and so on which are subject to EU employment legislation and have retained their monarchy then you're absolutely right.
 
whoanellie said:
Has anyone else who is on twitter seen a massive increase in random followers in the last couple of days? I'm wondering if it is a coincidence or a consequence of Musk taking over.
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I've definitely seen an uptick and group spam DMs. I used to get maybe one a month. Now it's several a week.
 
"Your site's got so many Russian bots they should call it the Social Nyet-work."

Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg in the line that has aged the worst from "Epic Rap Battles of History."
 
I'm taking my first tentative steps into the world of Mastodon after resisting Twitter for so long. One of the first things to pop up on my "feed" is this:

 
Suddenly said:
I keep forgetting the country with the monarchy is somehow now less feudalist than the one that rejected same.
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The Don said:
Not so much if you're referring to the UK. One of the drivers of Brexit was to be free of the EU's oppressive (to employers) employment legislation.

If you're talking about Spain, The Netherlands, Denmark and so on which are subject to EU employment legislation and have retained their monarchy then you're absolutely right.
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Pedantic mode on: The UK and the USA have exactly the same amounts of feudalism, which is none. As far as vassalage goes (1 of the 2 components of feudalism), that was pretty much done away with at the end of the War of The Roses in England. I think serfdom (the other component) was ended a century or so later.
 
I Am The Scum said:
I've definitely seen an uptick and group spam DMs. I used to get maybe one a month. Now it's several a week.
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I haven't had anything. I gained about five followers but my follower count is now back to what it was, don't know if it's these five unfollowing me or some others. No unwanted DMs at all.
 
lobosrul5 said:
Pedantic mode on: The UK and the USA have exactly the same amounts of feudalism, which is none. As far as vassalage goes (1 of the 2 components of feudalism), that was pretty much done away with at the end of the War of The Roses in England. I think serfdom (the other component) was ended a century or so later.
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Feu duty is still a thing of some sort in Scotland. Properties generally still have a feu superior even if the liability to pay duty has been bought off.
 
Ziggurat said:
Why do you assume that it will stop working? On a purely technical level, it doesn't seem like what Twitter is doing is difficult. How many people do you really need to keep the servers running?
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Far, far, more than you or Musk understand.
 
The Don said:
Not so much if you're referring to the UK. One of the drivers of Brexit was to be free of the EU's oppressive (to employers) employment legislation.

If you're talking about Spain, The Netherlands, Denmark and so on which are subject to EU employment legislation and have retained their monarchy then you're absolutely right.
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Twitter's EMEA headquarters are in Ireland.
 
I Am The Scum said:
You mean there actually are horny singles in my area waiting to meet right now??? :jaw-dropp
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Wife: "I can't this anymore. I'm leaving you. You are just too naïve."
Husband: "I don't have to take this from you. There's horny singles in my area waiting to meet me right now."
 
plague311 said:
And me for 3.

There's no way I'd hang around. If needed I'd use that money to gtfo of California, or at least Silicone Valley, and find a better\different job. Then I'd roast Musk on twitter until he banned me because he's a fragile manbaby that can't handle any form of criticism.
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Many severance agreements (and presumably Twitter's, especially now) have a non-disparagement clause which would likely make this to be a rather expensive public venting of one's grievances.
 
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grunion said:
Many severance agreements (and presumably Twitter's, especially now) have a non-disparagement clause which would likely make this to be a rather expensive public venting of one's grievances.
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Disparage immediately before signing the severance papers. Have a tipped ally screenshot it so any required removal of disparagement can be posted by others. Timestamps visible of course.

("Right, rape, pillage, then burn.")
 
plague311 said:
And me for 3.

There's no way I'd hang around. If needed I'd use that money to gtfo of California, or at least Silicone Valley, and find a better\different job. Then I'd roast Musk on twitter until he banned me because he's a fragile manbaby that can't handle any form of criticism.
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I think it might be a tough call for any employee currently already in Silicone Valley. However, any remote workers that are told: move to the bay area or your gone will likely be better off not moving there. Especially if they are currently in a low cost of living area.
 
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