At all-hands meeting, Musk tells employees Twitter may go bankrupt

Re:At all-hands meeting, Musk tells employees Twitter may go... by Comevius on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:46PM (#33553861)

Things are going good. The Chief Information Security Officer, the Chief Privacy Officer and the Chief Compliance Officer are all gone for good, along with half of the employees, basically everyone needed to keep things running. It is a remote-first company, but everyone is ordered to work from the office.

Update: Twitter's Head of Trust and Safety and Head of Ad Sales are also gone.

Meanwhile Elon Musk is running around haphazardly trying to monetize the entire platform, sacrificing verification for no reason and replacing it with a paid tier. Other platforms like Youtube offer to verify you for authenticity when you reach a certain number of subscribers, which doesn't have to do anything with also having a paid tier. The difference is that Youtube Premium pays content creators, not charges them like Twitter Blue. Sure, content creators will pay to be featured, but there aren't that many of them.

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Re:At all-hands meeting, Musk tells employees Twitter may go... by legitster on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:16PM (#33554308)

> Other platforms like Youtube offer to verify you for authenticity when you reach a certain number of subscribers

Well, if there's one thing to try to commend Musk here for, it's that he's trying to move away from just another "users are the product" business model.

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Re:At all-hands meeting, Musk tells employees Twitter may go... by Comevius on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:21PM (#33554386)

YouTube Premium is completely ad-free though, and it also let's you download videos and music for unlimited offline use without any DRM.

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Re:At all-hands meeting, Musk tells employees Twitter may go... by MallocVoidstar on Thursday November 10, 2022 @05:40PM (#33554629)

I don't think this is true: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11977233

>Downloaded videos can be played offline for up to 29 days. After that, you'll need to reconnect your device to the internet.

That sounds like DRM. The page also seems to suggest that you need to use youtube.com to watch videos, not a file on your system.

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Re:At all-hands meeting, Musk tells employees Twitter may go... by Comevius on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:19PM (#33555064)

It looks like you are right, it saves offline-enabled content to a number of encrypted blobs only the official app can play.

I wouldn't now, I use yt-dlp that can also make use of YouTube cookies, since otherwise YouTube is not DRM protected like Netflix is for example.

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Re:At all-hands meeting, Musk tells employees Twitter may go... by georgemcbay on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:54PM (#33553989)

I've seen quite a few of the still-existing Twitter employees openly mocking him on twitter at this point with joking references to being "hardcore" and other memes that seem to be coming out of this disastrous all-hands.

Its almost difficult to believe at this point that he isn't intentionally running the company into the ground.

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