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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by estomagordo on Friday November 04, 2022 @11:56AM (#33468774)
That is also the time period when they started showing a profit.
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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by SV_BubbleTime on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:20PM (#33469238)
No new features, and from my seat I can see no new monitization model.

Where is all this new money coming from, and why do suggest it requires these new employees to keep that stream flowing?

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by chrisseaton on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:34PM (#33469498)
> No new features

Are the new features for advertisers rather than consumers?

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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by ketzo on Friday November 04, 2022 @12:30PM (#33469409)
Operating a massive, distributed, real-time ad platform requires lots of engineers.
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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by partiallypro on Friday November 04, 2022 @02:36PM (#33471619)
But how many of the new hires are engineers? I've read it has mostly been middle management hires.
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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by peanuty1 on Saturday November 05, 2022 @02:48AM (#33478663)
Elon claims there are 10 managers for every person coding. I don't believe that.
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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by peanuty1 on Saturday November 05, 2022 @02:48AM (#33478657)
There have been lots of new features like Twitter Spaces, tipping, voice tweets, Twitter Blue, Patreon-style subscriptions for content creators, controlling who can reply to your tweets, etc. However, some of the new features like fleets (temporary tweets) were deprecated.
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