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1. lamont+yx[view] [source] 2023-07-01 21:16:01
>>ZacnyL+(OP)
I think we're about at the point where the people who predicted chaos at twitter after Elon basically fired most of the experienced engineers have been proven correct. The duct tape is all coming apart at the seams now.

It isn't quite as decisive as a submarine imploding, and ceasing to exist, but it has turned into a brightly burning tirefire.

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2. bravoe+Kz[view] [source] 2023-07-01 21:31:06
>>lamont+yx
25 years of products being honed for shareholder value, instead of customer or user value. We may be at peak consumer tolerance for anti-pattern, in-app purchase, subscription-model, ad-packed, data-siphoning, dopamine driven, gated experiences.
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3. hyperp+4D[view] [source] 2023-07-01 21:50:29
>>bravoe+Kz
This is a perfect example of how "shareholder value" is a thought-terminating cliche.

Twitter was previously a public company, which was beholden to shareholders, and aimed to try and increase its stock price (as far as "shareholder value" actually means anything, this is basically it). I wouldn't praise previous management (the company wasn't profitable), but they were not a complete dumpster fire.

Then Twitter was bought out, and taken private, removing the obligation to "shareholder value." The ensuing dumpster fire is one that will be marveled at for years.

I'm not saying public corporations are better than private, or that "shareholder value" is a good slogan. I'm just saying that your comment is every bit as irrelevant as the porn spam that's clogging Twitter these days. (Thanks for fixing the spam problem, y'all!).

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4. B1FF_P+AF[view] [source] 2023-07-01 22:08:39
>>hyperp+4D
> not a complete dumpster fire.

I never liked Twitter, don't have accounts, etc. To me this "dumpster fire" talk sounds like just sour grapes.

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5. hyperp+JL[view] [source] 2023-07-01 22:57:43
>>B1FF_P+AF
It’s well documented that advertisers have been fleeing Twitter because they see the new management as bad for them. While Twitter has engineering and reliability problems, the loss of advertising revenue is the life or death challenge for the company.

I’m pretty ambivalent about advertising, but it was the only reasonable way for Twitter to make money, so I would not have bought Twitter and then chased away all the advertisers.

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