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Mabel@taylorlorenz I guess he spent $44 billion dollars to close a platform where someone hurt his feelings.
@mabelthecat @taylorlorenz You know this is how trump became president, right? Frontline on #PBS did a whole exposé on how that whole thing started bc Obama told a joke about him at the correspond’s dinner. It’s all it takes I guess.
B.E.
yasmin v ♿@mabelthecat @taylorlorenz My thoughts exactly. He bought Twitter to destroy it. Although, it is a pretty expensive way to deal with something you don't like.
turbomandoll@taylorlorenz lmao Musk speedrunning his way from $44B leveraged buyout to full-on bankruptcy in record time. I can't see any scenario where this will work.
boojit@taylorlorenz it's my understanding that "if you don't show up to work, resignation accepted" is just not how things work? Like there is no implicit resigning based on behavior. You either explicitly resign or they gotta terminate your employment, right? This matters for things like severance and unemployment I think (not an expert at all in this area).
Emma Byrne@boojit interesting thread saying that that this policy announcement constitutes a change of contract and that it can't be enforced like this (legally, anyway)
https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1590744874483339264?t=0KD4CpzWkKKN3gUSl1ThGg&s=19
Zoë Schiffer on Twitter
“NEW: A senior member of Twitter’s legal team just posted this message in Slack:“Everyone should know that our CISO, Chief Privacy Officer and Chief Compliance Officer ALL resigned last night. This news will be buried in the return-to-office drama. I believe that is intentional.””
Alan Twigz@boojit @taylorlorenz the thing about Musk is, he lies constantly and doesn't care if you know he's lying. He could take two seconds to say things in a non insane way but he'd get less engagement
Michael@taylorlorenz I can't believe it's only been two weeks
Freya the Ferret@taylorlorenz It feels somehow cosy reading this from a distance, rather than on twitter itself. Like being inside, warm & dry, watching the rain lashing the window outside
ML2@taylorlorenz I wonder if Musk will make the world record for fastest time taking a company from publicly traded to bankruptcy...
Vito Botta@taylorlorenz How is the actual source? Does that person work for Twitter?
MrTChace 
@taylorlorenz Do people actually believe that it's his money that he spent vs a larger entity (country/cabal) that would like to obfuscate a primary news source for many who have abandoned the corporate monopolized and corrupted traditional news outlets? If you shut down the free flow of intelligence and news, that serves a lot of purposes for the oligarchy.
Alicia Celeste@taylorlorenz Ya gotta wonder if he would have said this if the mid-terms had delivered the red wave.
Joseph Ottinger@taylorlorenz @talios I like how Ms. Lorenz still says all this on Twitter because otherwise she gets no clicks.
I think Twitter'll be fine in the long run, just because of that.
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lorddimwit is now @@taylorlorenz How are the SpaceX and Tesla boards not looking at this and thinking (a) he’s not actually a very good CEO and (b) why are we paying him to work at Twitter and not devote his time to Tesla/SpaceX?
Steve James@lorddimwit @taylorlorenz I should think SpaceX and Tesla are quite relieved that he's left them alone to go do his thing somewhere else for a while.
Rich 🌈 🟥 🍁 🟥@taylorlorenz this may be the funniest thing I’ve seen all week.
Jake Savin@rich @taylorlorenz The week isn’t over yet 😉
@jsavin @taylorlorenz just one more day to burn his $44bn!
IamAlyosha@taylorlorenz he did the same re working from the office with Tesla. I don’t know how well that’s gone, but the obsession with getting people into a physical office really is yesterday’s approach to today’s problems.
I genuinely don’t know what he thinks he’s getting? Higher productivity? Better morale?
It’s unlikely.
secretlyextrovert@IamAlyosha @taylorlorenz control. It’s always about control with these guys.
@secretlyextrovert @taylorlorenz
I fear you're right.
Yet the prevailing thinking in every successful Product and Tech org I've ever been in is about empowerment and autonomy (with some guardrails around it, obvs).
It might be gratifying for a CEO to walk into an office and see "their people" lined up like Victorians in a workhouse (probably looking quite miserable by now), but operating a 4k company from the top is a HUGELY inefficient and ineffective way to go.
Productivity will plummet.
@IamAlyosha @taylorlorenz you’re right and we’ve been here before when Marissa Mayer tried to turn Yahoo around. Ironically enough, she was another CEO who lionised sleeping in the office.
The press at the time interestingly handled it much the same as currently, some outlets saying it’s the right call.
https://www.wired.com/2013/02/yahoo-no-work-from-home/amp
A few years later, Yahoo sold to Verizon for less than 5bn - less than 5x what they paid for Tumblr.
@secretlyextrovert @taylorlorenz I guess the one consolation is Yahoo! survived.
I'm not 100% certain that will be the case for Twitter. Nothing is too big to fail!
@IamAlyosha @taylorlorenz did it though? I think Yahoo at its peak was worth over $100bn - to be sold for less than 5% of that is essentially death as they obviously still had _some_ assets.
I'm probably being kind. It's never recovered, but it DOES still operate.
Listening to the radio this morning, there seem to be (some I must say wild) concerns that Twitter won't make it to Christmas!
Meg Maker@taylorlorenz "Everything is fine."
@taylorlorenz @gossithedog The lettuce is looking safe today 🥬
flexghost.@taylorlorenz he did the same at Tesla giving a close friend Covid not long after his physical return to the office.
I’m waiting patiently to see if karma is still a thing.
Mike Cohen@taylorlorenz maybe he shouldn’t have thrown away $44B of someone else’s money to buy it.
@taylorlorenz if he’s the best hope of getting man to Mars, it’s very safe to say we are NEVER going to Mars.
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