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by itsoktocry 900 days ago
>He did lay of 90% of the staff and although people have claimed Twitter will die any minute, it hasn't.

It lost 3/4 of its value, partially because it's losing advertisers, partially because they fired everyone outside of engineering.

I'm an avid Twitter user to this day; do you think it's thriving, just because the website is still up? It has more spam, bots and porn than ever.

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increasing growth most places in world

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1743028102446408026

heres a total feature map of what was released in 2023:

https://twitter.com/enriquebrgn/status/1740950767325024387

I think thats definitely a signal that the B and C teams werent needed, considering they cut 90% of staff LOL.

As for the bots, AI is making it easier than ever to bypass those systems. CogVLM is just sitting there menacingly on github https://github.com/THUDM/CogVLM