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Re: by silexia on Friday February 07, 2025 @10:08AM (#42973471)
People said Musk's style would not work at Twitter, but he was able to cut 90% of the headcount and improve the product.

America voted democratically for Trump, who promised to reduce government waste and fraud and corruption - and that is exactly what is going on.

Re: by latexr on Friday February 07, 2025 @10:17AM (#42973614)
> and improve the product

That is, at best, a highly subjective point of view. Considering the mass exodus of people and governments and company accounts, it’s hard to make the point everyone thinks Twitter has improved.

Re: by silexia on Friday February 07, 2025 @01:22PM (#42975792)
The far left cannot tolerate dissent, so they left. But Community Notes is the biggest improvement in social media I have ever seen.
Re: by latexr on Friday February 07, 2025 @03:47PM (#42977310)
Community Notes, previously known as Birdwatch, was introduced in early 2021.

https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introducing-bir...

The acquisition was in 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon...

In other words, your one example of Musk improving Twitter wasn’t even his initiative.

Re: by anon2549 on Friday February 07, 2025 @10:25AM (#42973708)
Twitter is much worse than it used to be.

Trump is certainly not reducing waste and corruption. He's reallocating the waste to better benefit his cronies, and he's filled the government with corrupt people who are working for their own benefit at the expense of the citizenry.

Re: by lawn on Friday February 07, 2025 @03:34PM (#42977178)
> and improve the product

He gave a platform for conspiracy theorists and fascists, so they're probably happy.

But for everyone else it turned into shit.