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Comment by InterviewFrog

10 hours ago

That’s what they said about Elon firing 80% of Twitter’s staff. But X is doing pretty well.

For some definition of pretty well which doesn't include human user numbers, revenue, profit, or ratio of humans to bots

  • Pretty well from an engineering perspective. But they've lost so many advertisers because it's intentionally not very moderated.

    • The site is currently running, yes. Don't forget it went down quite often immediately following the mass firing though. They seem to have fixed that.

      There was certainly a ton of bloat to trim, but the haphazard "just pick 80% of the people and fire them" was incredibly stupid. Should have chosen whoever was producing the bloat, at least.

    • Pretty well if you don't mind some features being built twice or three times and appearing inconsistently at different screens, or users being able to bypass usage limits by pressing the back button on the usage limit sign...

Twitter was never a profitable business. You actually renforce his point.

(Maybe that was intended I might have missed some irony here)

  • I'm not sure why people keep repeating this when Twitter was profitable at the point that Elon bought it.