[input_sh]

> I was slightly nervous when Elon fired 90% of twitter staff and the site kept working. If stuff never broke, then empirically, firing 90% of your staff seems to be a good idea.

Things continuing to work doesn't mean that firing 90% of the staff is a good idea. Decently built site will remain up even if nobody's around to take care of it.

Actually changing things is where you see an actual impact of the layoffs. There have been no major changes to the platform, only cosmetics, and they managed to fuck up every single one of them ("views" moved like six times and is still not aligned properly, black on black text, translating tweets is gone for weeks...).

I'm not the one to usually complain about UI changes, but for fuck's sake, every single week things are still the same functionality-wise, but something in the interface gets moved just because.

[shrikant]

> There have been no major changes to the platform, only cosmetics, and they managed to fuck up every single one of them

I've been trying to explain this to some of my Musk megafan acquaintances from when Musk was making lots of noise of about adding various "features", when they (the acquaintances) were fawning over "zomg look at the improvement in new product development since Elon took over!!11one".

[theGnuMe]

I think there is very little competition for Twitter except TikTok and Instagram. But they have different audience profiles. So it is safe to do nothing on average but you won't grow...