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.
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.
Not if you have no account and are not in US. Before, when I clicked on twitter link it worked 99.9% of the time. Now it is lottery. Sometimes it loads without comments, most of the time it does not load at all.
I used to hardly ever see spam, except when looking at replies to famous huge accounts, now I get 2-5 follows/likes/mentions a day from fake accounts mostly of semi-naked girls with a link to a website.
And any reasonably active thread of replies to a tweet now surfaces the idiotic nonsense of blue tick subscribers to the top, rather than ranking by tweet quality/relevance.
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.
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.