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The "massive layoffs" was just twitter returning to the same staffing level they had in 2019, after they massively overhired in 2020-2021. This information is public, but this hasn't stopped people from building a fable around doomsday prophecies.


I mean, it’s clear the Musk overcorrected. The fact that managers were asked to name their best employees, only to then be fired and replaced by them, or that musk purposefully avoided legal obligations to pay out severance/health insurance payments (I forget the exact name)/other severance, and that the site has had multiple technical issues that make it feel like there’s no review/QA process all show that he doesn’t know what he’s doing.

He got laughed out of a Twitter call thing with lead engineers in the industry for saying he wanted to “rewrite the entire stack” and not having a definition for what he meant.

Doomed or not, Musk is terrible at just about everything he does and Twitter is no exception




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