The great Twitter cleaning has begun

[R011]

10 hours ago, MiloMorai said:

You quietly speard the word there is a fire so there is no panic.

Oh, yes.  I remember being instructed that on discovering fire in a tented camp or one of the wooden fire-trap barracks built in WW2 we were  to whisper "fire, fire, fire" and go to every tent or room and gently wake those inside and suggest they leave.  Or the subtle,  quiet, melodious sound of any building's fire alram when it's been activated.

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

[Tim Sielbeck]

 

[sunday]

https://gab.com/Shazlandia/posts/109287105856906121

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-twitters-content-curation-team-axed-amid-mass-layoffs

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‘’The entire “Content Curation Team” was reportedly fired. Their job was to monitor the trending section and add “context” that fit their narrative. They were also responsible for choosing which news/propaganda to display to you at the top. 

 

 

[Angrybk]

lol Twitter layoffs of 50 percent of the staff is the top headline on The NY Times right now. Meanwhile there’s a massive conventional war going on in Ukraine, US midterms, I cud go on…

[17thfabn]

Musk paid $44 billion for twitter.

Before he bought it I wondered if it was  a good business decision.

It has been thought that many of the accounts were bots. 

Leftist leaning corporations are likely to cut their advertising. 

[Angrybk]

Left wingers have a hilariously inconsistent relationship with Musk. First they wanted him to be forced to buy Twitter when he tried to back out of it, now they’re freaking out that he bought Twitter, they hate his political beliefs but every other car in my upper middle class NorCal neighborhood is a Tesla, etc. And apparently ten or so women, all purportedly left wing (Grimes et al) have borne his children because of his superior gene seed and money and stuff  

Personally I think SpaceX is rad but otherwise he’s a bullshit artist who commits securities fraud on a weekly basis and I think Teslas are stupid, and don’t really care about Twitter and what happens to their employees, but at least I’m consistent!

[MiloMorai]

Elon Musk Loses It Over Twitter Advertiser Exodus, Threatens ‘Thermonuclear Name & Shame’

Because if there’s one thing that makes advertisers willing to spend money, it’s threats

Ross A. Lincoln | November 4, 2022 @ 9:08 PM

Elon Musk is apparently freaking out a little over an exodus of advertisers on Twitter since he took over, because he publicly threatened them on Friday night.

It started Friday morning, when he whined in an extremely Trump-like tweet that advertisers were fleeing because of “activist groups,” which he said was “Extremely messed up!” and an attempt “to destroy free speech in America.” He also insisted “nothing has changed” since he took over.

Among the many replies to this tweet was Federalist Society fellow Mike Davis, a lawyer best known for his involvement with the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Davis had some advice for Musk of fairly dubious legal wisdom:

“Name and shame the advertisers who are succumbing to the advertiser boycotts. So we can counter-boycott them. And get your $8 monthly subscription going asap. So we can start to makeup for lost revenue now,” he said in part.

Musk’s reply: “Thank you. A thermonuclear name & shame is exactly what will happen if this continues.”

Sure. Because one thing we know for certain, threatening advertisers with either a retaliatory boycott or some form of doxxing is a sure-fire way to convince them to give you money.

Musk was, per usual lately, widely mocked on the platform he owns. We won’t get too bogged down on that, but we would like to share a couple of the more cogent responses:

Content moderation has, of course, been the primary concern advertisers have expressed about Twitter now that Musk is in charge. Advertisers don’t want their ads appearing next to disinformation or racist/sexist/harassing/etc tweets, something experts have repeatedly tried to explain to Musk — including one Musk blocked who had participated in a phone meeting Musk held with advertisers on the topic the night before.

Setting aside the hyperbole of his original tweet, plenty has actually changed since he took over. Prior to his buying the company, he repeatedly indicated he wanted to drastically reduce how content is moderated on Twitter. Then when he did take over, there was a sharp and very visible spike in racist and other forms of bigoted speech. And of course, Musk ended his first weekend as Twitter’s new owner by sharing a homophobic conspiracy theory about the attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband.

He’s also announced a plan to replace the site’s current verification system with a subscription service anyone can pay for — which as experts and users alike have explained, utterly defeats the purpose of verification. And that’s not even getting into sudden mass layoffs that appear to have, among other things, killed the company’s human rights team and sharply reduced the content moderation team.

Edited November 5, 2022 by MiloMorai

[Angrybk]

3700 people lost their jobs, basically all of them are skilled tech bros who probably already have new jobs. It’s not like a giant factory being shut down in Ohio or something. 

[sunday]

 

Edited November 5, 2022 by sunday

[Ivanhoe]

I believe we are now seeing why Musk bought twitter; he simply wants to troll everyone, with near-governmental powers.

Should be quite fun to watch.

 

[rmgill]

11 hours ago, Angrybk said:

Left wingers have a hilariously inconsistent relationship with Musk. First they wanted him to be forced to buy Twitter when he tried to back out of it, now they’re freaking out that he bought Twitter, they hate his political beliefs but every other car in my upper middle class NorCal neighborhood is a Tesla, etc. And apparently ten or so women, all purportedly left wing (Grimes et al) have borne his children because of his superior gene seed and money and stuff  

Personally I think SpaceX is rad but otherwise he’s a bullshit artist who commits securities fraud on a weekly basis and I think Teslas are stupid, and don’t really care about Twitter and what happens to their employees, but at least I’m consistent!

You want consistency from the left? 
 

 

Edited November 5, 2022 by rmgill

[sunday]

[Angrybk]

6 hours ago, rmgill said:

You want consistency from the left? 
 

 

Obviously the Right has been completely consistent in how they approach Elon! I guess we'll have lots of Teslas in Dallas sometime soon...

[Ivanhoe]

Dallas is a rather blue city...

 

[Tim Sielbeck]

5 hours ago, Angrybk said:

Obviously the Right has been completely consistent in how they approach Elon! I guess we'll have lots of Teslas in Dallas sometime soon...

Uh, yes.  More and more each day.  But then Dallas is largely liberal anyway.

[sunday]

[DB]

If Dorsey is saying that Twitter grew too fast, then it should be an obvious corollary that it will have excess personnel once it's targets are revised (by new management).

This round of firings probably has little to do with the specific merit of the developers and managers who are gone - it will be much more a root-and-branch culling of projects that have little short to mid-term benefit to the bottom line. Having dropped $44 billion onto the company, he absolutely needs to see profits as soon as possible.

As for protection for those made redundant, in the UK if they've been in for less than 2 years, they're entitled to remuneration pro-rata for untaken leave and their last paycheck, with one to three month's notice depending on contract. If they've been employed for more than 2 years, they get a nominal 1 week salary (capped) for each full year of employment, plus the above. If more than 100 workers at a single site are made redundant, then there is a mandatory 3 month consultation period, with the company also required to foot the bill for training for job hunting, making time available for interviews and counselling services.

Presumably with everyone being sent home, Twitter will have to compensate the employees for this consultation period (see, though P&O Ferries, which broke just about every employment law in the book to fire local and hire foreign labour and seems to have gotten away with it by sucking up a fine instead, but I'm not current on the outcome).

[BansheeOne]

Ol' Elon definitely has the ability to make people's brains melt. The website of German flagship evening news "Tagesschau " just caused a shitstorm over a commentary by their US West Coast correspondent about Musk allowing "racist and conspiratory rats" to crawl out of their holes, whence they should be beaten back into. I'm not so much surprised by one guy losing it like that (incidentally, on some sites parading this as an example of elitist Nazi speak, every comment ever posted sounds like that), but that nobody caught it before it was posted up. This ain't Twitter, where no filter between your brain and the world is a feature, not a bug. 😁

As it is, they edited the language with an appropriate note also making the usual milquetoast non-apology that it was never intended to de-humanize anyone (again incidentally, the same "I didn't mean it like that" defense frequently criticized by media commentary when rightwingers run their mouth off like that). Wonder what the intention was then?

[DB]

Mass hysteria, transmission vector: social media.

I've seen claims such as "the use of the 'N-word' has increase by 500 times since Musk took over."

Maybe so, but how many of those are people playing games to see if the censorship engine is switched off?

[MiloMorai]

29 minutes ago, DB said:

Mass hysteria, transmission vector: social media.

I've seen claims such as "the use of the 'N-word' has increase by 500 times since Musk took over."

Maybe so, but how many of those are people playing games to see if the censorship engine is switched off?

Probably a few but not the rest of them.

[Murph]

I suspect that Twitter HQ will end up being moved to Austin, Texas.  Just a feeling.

[NickM]

2 hours ago, Murph said:

I suspect that Twitter HQ will end up being moved to Austin, Texas.  Just a feeling.

Since you have a feeling, should I post a linky to "That" song by 'Boston', just in case?

[DB]

3 hours ago, MiloMorai said:

Probably a few but not the rest of them.

Well, duh.

[Stuart Galbraith]

2 hours ago, Murph said:

I suspect that Twitter HQ will end up being moved to Austin, Texas.  Just a feeling.

Probably an orbiting Space station where musk strokes a White Persian and practices giggling insanely.