⚠️Oh my god, this is.. not at all surprising. Some of my fave highlights in this Thread 🧵 $TSLAQ $TWTR
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"Midas Touch is a cautionary tale."
I want to make this very clear: If I ever find out who that Product Manager was, or their venmo/kofi/whatever, I will personally buy them a drink. Or cheese.
You are my kind of person, and I appreciate you. #Twitter #LoveWhereYouWorked
I want to make this very clear: If I ever find out who that Product Manager was, or their venmo/kofi/whatever, I will personally buy them a drink. Or cheese.
You are my kind of person, and I appreciate you. #Twitter #LoveWhereYouWorked
Sadly, as we expected, the only two types left at Twitter are people as soulless as Elon Musk... and Visa/Healthcare Hostages.
This is just grim. United States, everybody.
#M4A #UnionsForAll
This is just grim. United States, everybody.
#M4A #UnionsForAll
This whole paragraph.
Musk replaced Twitter’s old culture with one of his own, but it’s unclear, with so few workers and plummeting revenues, if this new version will survive.
As one employee said in December, “Place is done for.” #ElonMusk #tyrant
Musk replaced Twitter’s old culture with one of his own, but it’s unclear, with so few workers and plummeting revenues, if this new version will survive.
As one employee said in December, “Place is done for.” #ElonMusk #tyrant
Elon Musk: “I was writing C programs in the ’90s,” he said dismissively. “I understand how computers work.”
Jesus Christ why would you trust this guy with anything. $TSLAQ
Jesus Christ why would you trust this guy with anything. $TSLAQ
As we thought, Elon has no idea wtf he's doing.
"It seemed as though Musk didn’t understand the basic organizational structure of a social-media company; it was as if a rich guy had bought a restaurant and started telling the cooks he wanted to add a new dining room."
"It seemed as though Musk didn’t understand the basic organizational structure of a social-media company; it was as if a rich guy had bought a restaurant and started telling the cooks he wanted to add a new dining room."
“David, this meeting is too technical for you,” Musk said, waving his hand to dismiss Sacks. Wordlessly, Sacks turned and walked out, leaving the engineers — who had gotten little engagement from Musk on anything technical — slack-jawed."
Elon:Sacks::Buffon:Toady
Elon:Sacks::Buffon:Toady
Shoutout to @Jason for being one of #TheGoons. Ya did it buddy- first the Little Black Book, now this. What a glow-up.
Remember "Print out your most #salientlinesofcode?"
They had to find printers that worked, then were told to abort that after some had printed & shred what had already been put to paper.
How tf did they think printing things out in the first place made any sense?! #elonmusk
They had to find printers that worked, then were told to abort that after some had printed & shred what had already been put to paper.
How tf did they think printing things out in the first place made any sense?! #elonmusk
Damn, girl, deep cut lmao
"She had printed out a few lines of Python rather than her actual code repository. (“Python is more at Musk’s level,” she says.)"
#elonmusk #swe #iLoveEng
"She had printed out a few lines of Python rather than her actual code repository. (“Python is more at Musk’s level,” she says.)"
#elonmusk #swe #iLoveEng
Shoutout to #CatatonicJack/@jack, lmao.
"Dorsey, who was known for going on long meditation retreats, fasting 22 hours a day, and walking five miles to the office, acted as an absentee landlord, leaving Twitter’s strategy and daily operations to a handful of trusted deputies."
"Dorsey, who was known for going on long meditation retreats, fasting 22 hours a day, and walking five miles to the office, acted as an absentee landlord, leaving Twitter’s strategy and daily operations to a handful of trusted deputies."
"In the meantime, managers and other senior employees began receiving calls late at night from the Goons. “Who are the best people on your team?” they would ask. “Who’s critical? Who’s technical?”"
#ElonMusk #Twitter #TheGoons
#ElonMusk #Twitter #TheGoons
This is just so grim guys. I've been through layoffs, and this is a level of cruelty I'm so thankful I never had to go through.
To the Tweeps that made Twitter 1.0 -- you deserved so much better, and I am so sorry. This breaks my heart.
Elon & The Goons are absolute sociopaths.
To the Tweeps that made Twitter 1.0 -- you deserved so much better, and I am so sorry. This breaks my heart.
Elon & The Goons are absolute sociopaths.
In which David Sacks is just as clueless, rude, and soulless as Elon Musk.
It reminds me of Andrew Tate with his "War Room." Blind sycophants who are just as terrible as the main guy. #grift
It reminds me of Andrew Tate with his "War Room." Blind sycophants who are just as terrible as the main guy. #grift
To whichever ex-Tweep sent this message in Slack before being cut. I appreciate you so much.
#LoveWhereYouWorked #OneTeam #DoBetter
#LoveWhereYouWorked #OneTeam #DoBetter
Twitter Blue v1 was rated by Trust/Safety as a P0 level risk. Highest level of risk.
Elon Musk & The Goons said do it anyway.
The fact that they prepped this level of documentation which he disregarded- from a compliance/safety perspective this is horrifying. #security
Elon Musk & The Goons said do it anyway.
The fact that they prepped this level of documentation which he disregarded- from a compliance/safety perspective this is horrifying. #security
By chasing Twitter Blue $, Elon Musk torched the company's ad business, their main form of revenue. By December, the remaining ad team began offering 100s of 1000s of $ in free ad spend to bring back advertisers.
It did not work.
It did not work.
This is the problem with only banning "illegal speech." Twitter is global, and there are places that outlaw specific things. There are all non-negotiable consumer protection & online regulations.
If you want unfettered "free speech," you end up with 4chan.
#ElonMusk
If you want unfettered "free speech," you end up with 4chan.
#ElonMusk
Person who was only brought back from being fired because Yoel resigned, @/ellagirwin = drunk on the Musk flavor-aid.
The unnamed employee = seeing the reality of what happened by reinstating Trump.
#TwitterDeservedBetter
The unnamed employee = seeing the reality of what happened by reinstating Trump.
#TwitterDeservedBetter
“Basically, if you can show up in an office and you do not show up at the office, resignation accepted. End of story,” is exactly like what Elon Musk said to suspended journalists who, in reality, did not "dox" him.
"Uh uh you uh dox, you're banned. Uh.. end of story."
"Uh uh you uh dox, you're banned. Uh.. end of story."
As expected, the group of people at the company that asked questions like "why deadnaming a trans colleague was bad" were thrilled that Elon Musk would buy the company.
They already knew he was on their team.
#transphobia
They already knew he was on their team.
#transphobia
LMAO PLOT TWIST - The Elon Musk Simp got CANNED.
Same with most of the prominent members of that group. Silver linings.
#LiveTweet reaction right now lol.
Same with most of the prominent members of that group. Silver linings.
#LiveTweet reaction right now lol.
It's been a minute, but I just want to say, good engineers are not easy to come by, and losing them is always devastating.
Unnamed engineer, I wish I could buy you a drink. You deserved so much better than you got.
#FuckElonMusk #TwitterExodus #LoveWhereYouWorked
Unnamed engineer, I wish I could buy you a drink. You deserved so much better than you got.
#FuckElonMusk #TwitterExodus #LoveWhereYouWorked
Can't snip this.
Elon Musk showed up in his "90% cheers 10% boos" Chappelle-humiliation shirt that says "I love Twitter" flanked by two bodyguards.
As @CodexEntry would say to Daniil Dankovsky:
"what. the. fuuuuuuuuuuuuck."
#obscurereference (ref: )
Elon Musk showed up in his "90% cheers 10% boos" Chappelle-humiliation shirt that says "I love Twitter" flanked by two bodyguards.
As @CodexEntry would say to Daniil Dankovsky:
"what. the. fuuuuuuuuuuuuck."
#obscurereference (ref: )
@CodexEntry Just when Elon Musk had decimated morale to what seemed to be the bottom of the barrel.. that's when he started his #TwitterFiles, doxxing Twitter employees' ex-colleagues. The tweet with @jack's email was deleted.. but theirs weren't.
Total scumbag. #grift
Total scumbag. #grift
@CodexEntry @jack "Employees rushed to warn a Twitter operations analyst whom Taibbi had doxxed to privatize her social-media accounts, knowing she was about to face a deluge of abuse."
Elon Musk, continuing to abuse women. Go Figure.
#LiveTweet
Elon Musk, continuing to abuse women. Go Figure.
#LiveTweet
"What Musk saw as damning forms of censorship were actually thoughtful conversations about user safety."
The man tilts at windmills on a daily basis, like Trump. They are nauseatingly similar in thinking they know and understand far more than they do. Completely clueless #grift.
The man tilts at windmills on a daily basis, like Trump. They are nauseatingly similar in thinking they know and understand far more than they do. Completely clueless #grift.
#FuckElonMusk #FuckEllaIrwin for what you did to Yoel.
After she was publicly connected w/ the @ElonJet ban, fmr employee says @ellagirwin began insisting instructions to restore accts only be delivered verbally so the moves would not be linked back to her in Twitter’s systems.
After she was publicly connected w/ the @ElonJet ban, fmr employee says @ellagirwin began insisting instructions to restore accts only be delivered verbally so the moves would not be linked back to her in Twitter’s systems.
And FWIW, I really hoped Ella would actually do right by users and foster a healthy/safe platform. She's just another Musk pawn now. It's one of the things that really infuriates me because going along with these horrifying actions was a choice. #blacklist
Fun Fact: Elon Musk was approached by HR before the mass firing because they wanted to review the plan to avoid possible lawsuits re: disability, discrimination, etc.
#FuckAround: Elon Musk and #TheGoons shooed them away & ignored it.
#FindOut: 500+ Employees Suing
#FuckAround: Elon Musk and #TheGoons shooed them away & ignored it.
#FindOut: 500+ Employees Suing
Fun Fact: Non-disparagement agreements mean you can't say anything negative for life- even if it's true.
Free-range capitalism baybeeeeeeeeee. (Plz form a #Union)
Again though, I've been through a shitty layoff. This is beyond shitty- it's cruel. Elon Musk, On Brand.
Free-range capitalism baybeeeeeeeeee. (Plz form a #Union)
Again though, I've been through a shitty layoff. This is beyond shitty- it's cruel. Elon Musk, On Brand.
Found the $TSLA shareholder/semi-sane person.
"As one person on Musk’s transition team put it, “What the fuck does this have to do with cars?”"
#Tesla $TSLAQ
"As one person on Musk’s transition team put it, “What the fuck does this have to do with cars?”"
#Tesla $TSLAQ
"How smart could he really be, the guy who purchased a company for far more than it was worth, then drove what remained of it into the earth?"
Answer: He's a conman and a grifter, and you're the mark. I don't want companies to fail, but he's taking you down with him. #ElonMusk
Answer: He's a conman and a grifter, and you're the mark. I don't want companies to fail, but he's taking you down with him. #ElonMusk
What a sad, strange little man.
My Long-Standing Elon Musk Assessment:
- Addicted to Attention
- Desperate for Approval
- Can't Stand Being Alone
- But also Doesn't Like Being Around People
He shouldn't use Twitter, for his & his shareholders' mental health, tbh.
My Long-Standing Elon Musk Assessment:
- Addicted to Attention
- Desperate for Approval
- Can't Stand Being Alone
- But also Doesn't Like Being Around People
He shouldn't use Twitter, for his & his shareholders' mental health, tbh.
Sadly, Elon Musk still doesn't understand the company he bought, nor the fact that he's destroyed something he can't manufacture.
Additional Elon Musk Assessment:
- He has no real friends.
Sycophants, yes, but no friends or mentors to tell the truth, if he'd even listen.
Additional Elon Musk Assessment:
- He has no real friends.
Sycophants, yes, but no friends or mentors to tell the truth, if he'd even listen.
This is just some depressing stuff.
Elon Musk: lol i disconnected server racks
<4 Days Later Twitter Craashed>
But like a toddler without object permanence, Elon didn't acknowledge.
"Works for me," he said.
...bruh.
Elon Musk: lol i disconnected server racks
<4 Days Later Twitter Craashed>
But like a toddler without object permanence, Elon didn't acknowledge.
"Works for me," he said.
...bruh.
I want to personally thank, a thousand times, all of the ex-Tweeps that made this site what it was.
You deserved so much better.
It's hard to create something special like this. From what we've seen from Elon Musk, it's heartbreaking how fast something special can be destroyed.
You deserved so much better.
It's hard to create something special like this. From what we've seen from Elon Musk, it's heartbreaking how fast something special can be destroyed.
That's all, folks. Amazing work by Zoë Schiffer, Casey Newton, and Alex Heath in this NYMag/Verge collab.
This is the best synthesis of the overall clusterwhoops at Twitter (so far.)
I highly recommend you check it out in full, too.
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This is the best synthesis of the overall clusterwhoops at Twitter (so far.)
I highly recommend you check it out in full, too.
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
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