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by egberts1 1186 days ago
Meta (Facebook/Instagram) must have not taken the Twitter route during their mass layoffs.

You cut non-essential folks firstly and critical operational personnel lastly.

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I gather you haven't tried to use the Twitter Ads API lately. :) This is literally an API that makes it easier for people to give money to Twitter. And yet it's seemingly abandoned since the Musk takeover, with the old documentation taken down and the support forums ignored.
Is it still in Elon Musk's business model, perhaps that's what he wanted.
They probably tried to do that but without a complete understanding of who does what exactly. Imagine a clueless manager lists out who on their team does what. Imagine the clueless manager got canned and now someone one or two steps removed needs to assess who does what. You don’t get to a layoff by being a well managed org, so you typically don’t execute the layoff very well.
Twitter didn’t take that route either.
Nice snark, but layoffs in Nov were primarily business, most recent round doesn’t actually start in tech until April.
You are right the Twitter API is so usable right now..