All Twitter Offices Closed as Hundreds of Employees Resign. Is #RIPTwitter time?

Q) How do you make a small fortune in the social media business ?

A) Start with a large fortune !

People are tired of the rich doing as they please to control us

Why does every good business taken over by a right-wing twat like Musk or Trump turn into a Chernobyl meltdown of epic proportions?

Think about it carefully, MAGA-Tards.

No one outside of the right wing extremist subculture believes in shit like that. Normal people resist. The magatards are the anomaly

^ Normal people don't use words like "magatards" and don't spend hours fussing over a company's politics before using their product. Normal leftist trolls do.

Lefties getting all sad that at least one platform isn't letting their bullshit go untouched while censoring the other side. Cry more.

Tetraplop sucking white cock won't make you white

You're a fan boy for billionaire exploiters

^ "Sucking white cock," gee, must have taken you hours to come up with that one.

Pretty hilarious to hear Icee, the pimping, pandering, woman-beating, woman-manipulating, lying, thieving piece of shit act like a champion of the working class for defending rich Bay Area tech bros.

"Lefties getting all sad that at least one platform isn't letting their bullshit go untouched while censoring the other side. Cry more."

Righties going suicidal because their rightie propaganda platforms like Twatter and Lying Social are going down the shitter faster than a burrito colonic.

Leftwing wesbites run by powerful Dems like Bezos and Zuckerberg are making them richer than God.

I wasn't referring to his politics just the fact that, damn, that man has so much money, damn of course we all feel a little Schadenfreude when we hear about a guy like that's troubles'

^ Hahaha! I'm sorry, Meta and Microsoft stock are down how much this year?

I'd rather see Twitter completely die than go back to being the place for center-left normies to cancel anyone who hurts their feelings. Hey, if AOC and Taylor Lorenz miss that, there's always Truth Social! Lulz.

Speaking of which, I guarantee you think about that platform more than any three conservatives here.

"MAGA-Tards" lol! I've only heard libtard up to now.

The pew political typology quiz www.pewresearch.org says I am an establishment liberal, which sounds about right. With that credential in hand, I will say that Twitter is a cesspit, I hate it, and never use it. I thought it sounded like a very stupid idea when it came out, and thought that my dingbat friend who first told me about it was the perfect user for a service whose name started with the word "twit". Now a psychopath billionaire narcissist autism case buys it for $44B and runs it into the ground with 1980's style authoritarian management style applied to hypersensitive bitch ass bay area tech princesses ? This is a dream come true for me. Twitter's infrastructure collapsing while Elon blows his fortune would make my day!

@Drew, that's interesting. I'm somewhere between "ambivalent right" and "committed conservative."

Like the former, I'm pro-same sex marriage, pro-choice (close to the median American, no further), and pro-marijuana legalization, see several places I'd raise taxes, and never voted for Trump. I'm also not one of the "what's good for big business is good for America" types. I also don't believe (most) Democrats and liberals are evil (only misguided). But I believe in a strong national defense and American identity, and as a consequence am pretty extreme on the first amendment.

Unlike some others, Musk's fortune appears to be earned (yeah, I know there's that quote about a great crime behind every great fortune, it's opinion not fact). He's done more to "green" the world than all the DC muckety-mucks. And Twitter, while a vanity project, seems to draw the most haters because he's taken away the stick the Extremely Online left uses to bully people. I'd rather it go bankrupt than go back to its old state.

But his ambitions for the platform aren't 280 characters. Shit, if it was just money, he could have paid the penalty and backed out of the deal. That's standard M&A language. He wants to turn the current base into the "everything" app. People are declaring he's lost that game when it hasn't even started yet.

"Now a psychopath billionaire narcissist autism case buys it for $44B and runs it into the ground with 1980's style authoritarian management style applied to hypersensitive bitch ass bay area tech princesses ? This is a dream come true for me. Twitter's infrastructure collapsing while Elon blows his fortune would make my day!"

You really have to wonder if Musk is suffering the same level of paranoia and psychoses that a Trump cocksucker like Kanye is going through?

It would the same thing as Bezos buying Fox Fake News and promptly firing Lying Hannity and Fucker Carlson even though those two propagandists bring in the ad revenue. Anf then Bezos tells all the Fox viewers to vote for Mighty Joe in 2024. How do you think righties would comment on Bezos then? Would they call him a "genius" like they are calling Musk for flushing Twatter down the toilet like a burrito blowout?

Elon is reconsidering his decision to end remote work for his employees. I approve of that. With new technology available, many people could work from home. There are ways to monitor them to see they are actually working. I've worked from home for two years and thoroughly enjoy it, especially on those cold winter days where I now no longer have to go out in the cold and drive into work.

Never got into Twitter either. It only seems to be a thing due to people dumb enough to shit-post using their real name.

Till now, Musk had a history of starting companies, not making acquisitions. His companies have a rep of making employees work lots of unpaid overtime. Looks like he tried to impose that situation on a company where people were not use to it. I can't believe it's about moderation, as founder has demonstrated an easy way to resolve that issue. Not withstanding those who would nonetheless whine about their self-inflicted "problems" due to not using the ignore button. But it did make sense for social media companies to ban Trump, since he was involved in organizing crimes (those of January 6th).

Is he destroying it on purpose?

I got this: www.pewresearch.org . Interesting quiz.

"But it did make sense for social media companies to ban Trump, since he was involved in organizing crimes (those of January 6th)"

Musk better be careful about allowing all the postings from violent hate groups like Oath Keepers and Proud Boys to show up on Twatter. The Feds can easily charge him with "aiding and abetting" acts of terrorism. Ole Musky can hire all the expensive lawyers he wants but he'll be in deep shit if he sides with rightie extremist losers instead of sensible lefties that make other social media platforms a shitload of money pushing their agenda.

Musk is going to let all kinds of people say whatever they want on Twitter. In other words, it's going to end up like this place.

@james: “ Is he destroying it on purpose”

It sure sure looks like it sometimes. What I think is happening is he’s applying a tone that doesn’t work in the super sensitive world of Bay Area big tech 2022. Twitter employees are used to having their asses kissed while they work 38 hours a week from home and drone on about gender identity politics. He is being a hard core dick about straightening out (in his mind) a company that needs straightening out. At the end he could have a lean mean hardworking tech money making machine, or he could very easily end up with no company at all.

For my money twitter is a piece of shit and so is Elon, so I’ll be glad to watch them fail. Anyone working at twitter has the tech and professional skills to make a good living elsewhere, so it’s not like anyone is going to end up on the street from this.

@doc: “ Musk is going to let all kinds of people say whatever they want on Twitter. In other words, it's going to end up like this place.”

Who will be the icee, sjg, and Dave Anderson of the new twitter?

"Musk is going to let all kinds of people say whatever they want on Twitter. In other words, it's going to end up like this place."

If the phrase "FRMOS" appears once on Twitter, then the campus and all servers should be burned in a thermite fire.

^hahahahahaha!!!!!!!

Musk has added censorship of what people say about Musk.

Icee you and the lil monkeys may have to resort to tumblr and reddit now that twitter won’t be as biased in your favor.

50 solid engineers should be plenty to keep the site running. When tech companies over-hire, they pick up a lot of incompetent dead weight, but they also make it impossible for anyone to rise up the ranks if they’re not the middle manager’s buddy.

I don’t think I would wanna be there right now, but if you’re an ambitious young guy who was never 100% on board with the woke stuff in the company, this is your chance to be a hero and get noticed by Elon.

The main risk at this point is straight up active sabotage from insiders or just running out of money.