As far as I can tell, tightening up that slightly and reasonably could have turned it profitable again. The only cash incinerator I see in this picture is bull-in-a-china-shop Musk who appears to have made the problem 100x worse.

Where is that reflected in the quarterly earnings report?

I only need one example but I have dozens. The only one that matters is he banned journalists from the platform after promising to make it a haven of free speech. It’s objectively one of the more hypocritical things a public figure has done in recent years.

I'm not a business genius though so perhaps I'm missing something crucial here.

I think you have that phrase backward.

1. https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/twitter-lays-off-...

I remain astounded by how much their product has declined (even pre-Musk acquisition) from their glory days of being so light weight that they were used to organize protests when governments would clamp down on internet access.

Also, here’s a nice way to just get the tweets from people you follow: use the realtwitter.com redirect, then click “Latest.”

https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector

This person missed their calling at the State Department.

Maybe fetching through the API is working better?

I assume they do it that way to get around all the rate limiting and threat of having access revoked that the official API comes with.

> But in a sign of just how deep Elon Musk’s cuts to the company have been, only one site reliability engineer has been staffed on the project, we’re told. On Monday, the engineer made a “bad configuration change” that “basically broke the Twitter API,” according to a current employee.

https://www.platformer.news/p/how-a-single-engineer-brought-...