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Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by kllrnohj on Friday December 02, 2022 @03:36PM (#33836530)
That's exactly the point - Twitter had sales reps & SpaceX didn't. Twitter had moderators and SpaceX didn't. The companies have different external-facing relationships at every level, even ignoring the obviously massive unrelated engineering differences.
Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by Mikeb85 on Friday December 02, 2022 @04:14PM (#33837008)
5000 salespeople and moderators? Please... They don't need that.

Besides, my comment was about Walmart, which has over 10,000 stores... So of course they have more employees than Twitter by a huge margin.

Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by test098 on Friday December 02, 2022 @05:40PM (#33837947)
Wow, you seem to know a lot about running multibillion dollar companies in completely different industries!

So let's imagine you run Twitter and you're operating in every western country on the planet. Now, all those countries have different laws and regulations. Are you, the genius CEO/coder/whatever going to be the one who sits down with regulators and discuss the nuance of their laws? Or are lawyers one of those salespeople/moderators?

Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by themitigating on Saturday December 03, 2022 @07:39AM (#33843024)
You don't know what they need, you don't have any useful information.

The only reason you think they are over staffed is because you don't like the political views of the majority of employees and you disagree with their content moderation policy. That's it and it's so obvious.

Re:Twitter engineer: I thought I’d been hacked. It turned ou... by Mikeb85 on Saturday December 03, 2022 @01:14PM (#33845786)
> The only reason you think they are over staffed is because you don't like the political views of the majority of employees and you disagree with their content moderation policy.

No, it's because they haven't done anything innovative in a decade and their product is much simpler than a ton of tech companies with half the staff... Their stock price was super depressed and they were losing what, $4 million per day?

It's super obvious for anyone remotely financially literate that they were way overstaffed. Any buyer would have laid off at least half the staff...

Even Jack Dorsey admitted it: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/05/jack-dorsey-speaks-twitter...