Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs - Hackdot

Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by BitwiseFool on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:47PM (#33658598)

Working for one of Elon Musk's companies sounds brutal, but I can understand the appeal of burning hot and bright on something truly innovative. I would feel proud and motivated to work like crazy on something like Starship, but this is Twitter. I suspect Musk's strategy of appealing to people who want to change the world and be on the bleeding edge of technology won't hold up the same way as it did for his other companies.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by MarkMarine on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:06PM (#33658972)

He was also offering them a chance to have options in clear growth companies that would make you financially secure after you put some time in. Twitter has no such promise, he is saying it might go into chapter 11, and he added all that debt. Why would you sign on to that, when on the backside you'll have options in a private company riddled with debt and no clear exit or growth path.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by madeofpalk on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:56PM (#33658784)

> on something truly innovative.

like twitter?

apparently elon's master plan is 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism?

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by SkyMarshal on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:18PM (#33659218)

No, it's "X", the all-in-app he wanted to do back in the 2000s, and which WeChat is now.

That's not a terrible idea if he can pull it off and make it profitable even despite the massive debt he loaded Twitter with to purchase it.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by anigbrowl on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:49PM (#33659902)

See also: Compuserve, AOL, Facebook

WeChat succeeds because it caters to a less mature market with a simple integrated product. American network service users have demonstrated repeatedly that they are OK with bundling products but less enthusiastic about bundled services.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by kravens_last on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:19PM (#33660518)

WeChat succeeds because it's a state sponsored monopoly. It would not have existed in a free and mature market in any western capitalist style economy.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by anigbrowl on Friday November 18, 2022 @04:05PM (#33662181)

I just gave 3 examples of products that succeeded brilliantly in a less mature market in western capitalist economies. WeChat might be an anachronism in 15 years just as AOL is today, although it continues to exist as a brand.

Incidentally I just glanced at the AOL website to remind myself how it's doing, and their ad banner offers a service to reduce the amount of paper junk mail you receive by signing up for AOL's managed unsubscription service. Less Information Age and more Irony Age.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by unity1001 on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:59PM (#33658846)

> 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism

What's wrong with 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by madeofpalk on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:02PM (#33658887)

Absolutely nothing! Early blogging was great!

But doing what happened 20 years ago is hardly "truly innovative"

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by greenhearth on Friday November 18, 2022 @02:18PM (#33660493)

This is Elon Musk MO. He invents nothing, just repackages and markets - the electric car (the very first kind of car invented over a hundred years ago) and going to space in a rocket? These are his big things and people eat it up. Why?

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by chrstphrknwtn on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:03PM (#33658906)

Nothing, but it seems unlikely to make money.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by anigbrowl on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:54PM (#33660007)

98% of it was/is just opinion articles. There's very little research or real information gathering involved.

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Re:Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to... by x0x0 on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:12PM (#33659100)

I suspect Elon wildly overestimates the attraction of working on Twitter.

For Tesla, it was one of a handful of places in the world where you could work on electric cars. SpaceX was one of what -- maybe 3 places in the world? -- where you really could work on rockets. If either of those inspired you, Tesla and SpaceX are premier employers.

If your interests are building large distributed systems, that has lots of choices.

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