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Elon Musk announces Twitter mass layoffs to begin Friday

8 pointsby room271over 2 years ago

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Normilleover 2 years ago
The thing that surprises me most about these stories is that Twitter had 7000 employees.<p>Anyone who&#x27;s ever tried to get hold of a human being at one of these online behemoths and been given the runaround with &#x27;un-monitored&#x27; email addresses, contact forms which submit into black holes and copy&#x2F;paste &#x27;support&#x27; staff, would have been forgiven for thinking the whole thing was run by a couple of dozen people, at most.<p>What the hell did 7000 of them find to do?<p>Mind you, looking at some of those job titles &#x27;Head of Inclusion, Diversity...&#x27; etc. I suspect quite a few of them are just pissed off that the gravy train has finally run into the buffers.
ID1452319over 2 years ago
As a very occasional user Twitter, I have to admit that the glacial pace of functional improvements when I drop in from one month to the next does not suggest a company with 7,000 employees.<p>I guess they could all work in sales and marketing, who knows.