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[ - ] yesiknow 5 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 04:47:09 ago (+5/-0)

That's an insane and arrogant group of tyrant nutballs I'd like to see freak out.

[ - ] Prairie 4 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 07:05:33 ago (+4/-0)

His mention of this will help get them to clear themselves out ahead of time.

[ - ] ModernGuilt 3 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 06:22:16 ago (+3/-0)

Twitter is a cia font. I can't imagine them letting go of it

[ - ] RedBarchetta 2 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 11:01:22 ago (+2/-0)

They have AT&T and had it for years.

[ - ] Thyhorrorcosmic103 3 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 06:16:43 ago (+3/-0)

Not to defend Musk, but I imagine he knows what he's doing more than some douchebag at techcrunch.

[ - ] Master_Foo 3 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 04:11:06 ago (+3/-0)

Jurrassic Park had, like, 5 employees. That turned out OK. Just make sure the fat engineer isn't the only one with the password.

[ - ] Crackinjokes 1 point 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 06:04:55 ago (+1/-0)

Password manager would seriously be a problem a company like twitter. I mean you've got to pass out the password for back and database access and editing to a certain number of people but then again you've got to constantly be changing it when people are fired and whatever and could act inappropriately but you've also got to protect against the nightmare scenario where everyone loses the password and suddenly your whole company is lost because no one can access the actual database.

[ - ] RedBarchetta 1 point 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 11:00:23 ago (+1/-0)

Active security tokens and multi-factor authentication. You have a keyfob that is updated with random characters every few minutes with 'your' password. Its generated at the source with your access. Its never the same and constantly changes. This is done in the financial and high security world. Im sure Twatter already has it in place.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 15:24:31 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] Master_Foo 1 point 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 13:31:40 ago (+1/-0)

Just write the password on a post-it and put it on Elon's monitor. If anyone needs it they can just come over and copy it. Problem solved!

[ - ] totes_magotes 1 point 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 07:47:37 ago (+1/-0)

That was a fuckin' movie. Come on, now.

[ - ] Stonkmar 2 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 13:26:25 ago (+2/-0)

He really just needs to cut it down to 140 characters.

[ - ] AmazingFlightLizard 0 points 1.5 yearsOct 22, 2022 07:21:05 ago (+0/-0)

I don’t think Musk is necessarily one of the good guys, but he’s a ball of chaos. Right now that chaos is giving the Left a really hard time, and eating up a lot of their mental real estate.

Course, soon as he makes his legitimate turn against us, he needs to be put down like a rabid dog, but in the meantime, let’s just enjoy the destruction he is sowing.

[ - ] Empire_of_the_Mind 0 points 1.5 yearsOct 22, 2022 01:34:49 ago (+0/-0)

this should no surprise anyone as there is no reason for twitter to have so many staff. he probably looked at the technical operations requirements and then any revenue-generating teams. everythign else got the ax.

[ - ] RedBarchetta 0 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 10:52:04 ago (+0/-0)

I suspect he is being generous. Its fucking Twitter.
Man to run the shit.
4 Sysadmins make one the boss.
10-12 local moderators to make sure child porn isnt posted
Customer Service - outsource
1 Facilities guy
Security guard.

What the fuck else do you need? You DONT need endless cunts censoring shit they have no business doing.

[ - ] RobertJHarsh 0 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 08:31:01 ago (+0/-0)

There's way more woke mother fuckers that 75%. He has to get well into 90% cuts but then again he needs people to keep the service running.

[ - ] Dread_Pirate_Johnson 0 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 06:39:07 ago (+0/-0)

Twitter is a front end for Tyler AI, allegedly.

[ - ] Crackinjokes 0 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 06:01:17 ago (+0/-0)

Seems to me that kind of a platform would largely be software automated anyway and I can't imagine why that kind of a company would need more than about a hundred people unless there were a large number of personnel that need to be involved in ad sales or something. But it seems like ad sales should also be an automated system as well.

I mean if you look at the code which is public for websites like Reddit and if you've done any database coding at all you know that you just provide someone with a button to push which loads their comment into a database and your web server displays the data in the format of answers and replies etc and a voting system none of which is complicated or new and hasn't been around for 20 years. I think the only reason you would need people is if you need a whole bunch of humans to go through and censor stuff. I mean you could definitely have some word triggers that would prevent certain words if you wanted to although I suppose the problem of keeping child pornography off the website is a little more difficult unless there is some AI that can recognize it now and I imagine there would be. I mean it seems like a simple algorithm that would look at posted photos and detect a lot of skin coloration might serve as a simple screening process to avoid too much nudity in photographs.

So I just can't imagine why anyone would need 7,500 employees for such a website unless they viewed the website company as their own personal fiefdom where they could employ their own personal blue haired friends at stockholder expense which I'm guessing is probably what was going on with Twitter.

[ - ] autotic 2 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 17:47:36 ago (+2/-0)

Most of the employees don't develop or maintain the core app. They are maintaining the internal bot farms and working on various "campaign tools" or working on sentiment analysis and de-anonymizing tools.

[ - ] lord_nougat 0 points 1.5 yearsOct 21, 2022 03:43:08 ago (+0/-0)

That's a good start.