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Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by fleddr on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:08PM (#33475327)
I'd say it's typical discourse in today's world to consider Musk either a total failure or the greatest genius ever. Everything has to be boiled down to this simple Disney-like binary.

Anyway, on this one I consider the chance of failure to be high, from a financial point of view but also because a social network is not an engineering challenge. That said, he seems to seek out such unlikely adventures.

I think Twitter will first take a massive hit before it rises to new heights, if it does.

Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by swyx on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:13PM (#33475385)
> a social network is not an engineering challenge

this is a sign that youve never had to support the scale of a popular social network

Re:Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun by fleddr on Friday November 04, 2022 @07:58PM (#33475867)
That was not what I was trying to say. I meant that it's not JUST tech, it involves a huge amount of politics, legislation, privacy, government relations, etc.