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by paganel
860 days ago
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> They all saw Twitter cut 80% of its staff and yet is still online. I remember the denialism on tech-focused forums like this one about that move, turns out it was the correct one from the owner's point of view. Of course that it s*cked big time for the employees being laid-off, but that's why we need to unionise in this industry and form some sort of solidarity/class consciousness, i.e. realising that the likes of "Zuck", "paulg", "Sam Altman" are not our friends, to the contrary. |
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First, Elon cut a bunch of "non-essential" core Twitter staff, like the trust and safety teams. This is going to cause long term brand damage - in fact, it already is!
Second, Elon completely cut all non-core Twitter projects. Twitter was being used by its major investors as a platform to build and test new social experiments and startup concepts. As far as I can tell, this was about 1000 engineers and product people. This was probably a pretty solid cut for someone like him, but also a pretty gross example of the whims of capital - who knows what great idea was killed off.
Lastly, when they say Twitter cut 80% of their staff, they never mentioned what happened after: massive attrition from people who "survived" but could go elsewhere. Way beyond what Elon thought would happen. Way beyond the 10-20% additional resignations after a normal layoff happens. This may have almost killed Twitter