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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by xNeil on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @06:55AM (#37830546)
Everything except short-term profits. X seems decently focused on the long term, especially with subscriptions being introduced as a (new) revenue stream.

Also not sure about R&D, as I don't know what R&D Twitter was doing pre-acquisition, but there's been an extraordinary increase in the rate of addition of new features and changes to the platform.

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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by ffgjgf1 on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @02:19AM (#37841537)
> especially with subscriptions being introduced as a (new) revenue stream.

I don’t think that’s ever likely to offset the massive amounts of debt Musk offloaded to Twitter’s balance sheet to fund the acquisition.

> changes to the platform.

Likely one of the most horrible rebrandings in the history of corporate rebranding?

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Re:John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity after pricing... by water-data-dude on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @06:14PM (#37850992)
He fired the ML Ethics Transparency and Accountability team. They did a lot of high quality work on understanding bias in opaque ML models.

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-ethical-ai-team/

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