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>>geox+(OP)
Wow, Google has really become the IBM of 2005s. All flashy demos, 'call sales' to try anything.

>>fooker+cg
According to Fiona Cicconi, Google’s chief people officer, Google employed 30,000 managers before the recent layoffs. The hard truth is Google needs a Twitter style culling. Take all those billions you're burning and give it to people with a builder mentality, not career sheeple. Unfortunately the same executives who would oversee this are the ones who need to be culled first.

>>fullse+Ji
How did the Twitter-style culling work out for Twitter?

>>Cobras+9c1
AFAIK it worked out well. Works more-less the same as before, shipped quite a bit of stuff and drastically reduced costs.

>>mrtksn+Qd1
Shipped stuff? Like what?

Threads? Its usage is down 90% since its launch six months ago, presumably because they kept the people who could launch stuff and got rid of the people who had some idea of what should be launched.

The "Blue Checkmark" system? Released with no thought at all, absolute disaster. Steven King had to publicly announce that, despite indications to the contrary, he was not a paid user, and he felt it was important to tell people because he didn't want the idea that he was a paid subscriber to harm his reputation. Same underlying problem: the people who could ship things were still shipping things, but the people who could figure out what to make were gone.

And yes, they did drastically reduce cost...and much more drastically reduce revenue.

>>Cobras+Rr1
The issues with Twitter are currently about Musk buying it at ridiculous price and his personal antics. Other than that, it works fine as always.

They shipped quite a bit of stuff, like the blue tick or revenue sharing. Other than Musk courting fascist and other kind of undesirables, twitter as a product is doing fine. It might go under though, but if that happens isn't going to happen because lack of employees.

>>mrtksn+5t1
It's absolutely full of spam, and the only ads left are crypto airdrops coming from what look like hacked accounts.

>>astran+kb2
Have you used twitter before the musk takeover? That's exactly what you are describing. At worst, nothing changed. At best, in my experience, the spam problem has somehow gotten better. Much less spam accounts below every single post like how it used to be.

I still think layoffs are bad because I don't care about corporate profit or efficiency to be honest, but in this case it's a bit surprising how nothing concrete has actually changed even with 80% reduction in staffing. 80% sounds apocalyptical to me but again, twitter just works like it did before. With the same annoying, never fixed bugs (occasional "something went wrong" on clicking tweets, etc) . But again, nothing close to the (technical) train wreck I would expect.

>>mardif+hh2
> Have you used twitter before the musk takeover?

Yes.

> Much less spam accounts below every single post like how it used to be.

No, they're still there. They're even more there on popular posts.

A strange thing is that they never seem to ban the onlyfans bots, but they do hide them under "more replies" - so if you habitually expand that, you just keep seeing the same ones everywhere.

> but in this case it's a bit surprising how nothing concrete has actually changed even with 80% reduction in staffing

That's not too surprising, because what the other people were doing was changing stuff. So now they're gone, things won't change, ever.