X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay

Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by karmasimida on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @05:14AM (#41179568)

Have you been to Twitter's SF site? It is a weird place, between super sketchy and plainly empty, what is missing is the peace of mind, definitely a valid reason to leave. It has all the downsides from being in the downtown, while none of the perks remain in today's SF.

Talent pool isn't a real issue for Twitter now, under Elon, I don't think they truly prioritize Twitter over any of his other companies, the mission is to keep Twitter's lights on, that is it, the website/app had basically stayed the same after he took over, what talents do they really need, I don't buy it.

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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by stingraycharles on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @06:39AM (#41179970)

I think it’s inaccurate to say that they don’t need talent to keep the lights on at Twitter. Maybe not a lot of new architectural development is happening, but you definitely need a lot of ops people that know what they’re doing to keep the lights on there.

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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by karmasimida on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @03:34PM (#41184569)

Elon had outsourced majority of Ops work, there are about 20% of employees left in the Bay last I checked from news.

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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by melodyogonna on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @08:53AM (#41180891)

If you use Twitter you would know it has been far from the same.

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Re:X kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to ... by barkerja on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @04:23PM (#41185046)

It appears they're trying to change the platform to be more of a media and payments platform. That requires talent.

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