Musk offers to buy Twitter

[mr_roboto]

@mr_roboto

Outstanding, thanks for that clarification, I didn't even realize what a simple, and problematic (for Musk) contract was executed. That makes sense, it was almost meant at a deterrent, hahaha, I'd imagine most people would've reviewed it, had a moment of introspection about their real intent and walked away.

Or at least negotiated for better terms! He truly did make a Godfather offer, so far above market value that Twitter's board likely would've faced a shareholder lawsuit for turning it down. He had the leverage to insist on revising the contract to provide standard outs for a buyer. For example, it's normal for such contracts to allow due diligence investigations before truly committing to buy, but the contract he signed explicitly waived diligence.

Nobody should come away from this thinking Musk plays 5-D chess; it's more like 1-D checkers. Remember all that noise from him about how he should be able to get out of the contract because of Twitter's bot problem? Before he changed his mind about buying Twitter, he puffed himself up as Twitter's savior on the basis that he was going to swoop in and magically solve Twitter's bot problem. So, even if he hadn't signed away due diligence, Twitter's lawyers had a decent chance of prevailing on that point. He obviously knew about the bot problem before he signed the contract!

I feel sorry for whomever has to represent Musk in court. He's got to be one of the worst clients on the planet.

 

[bwinter88]

Schadenfreude aside, I wonder how much this is pulling him away from his duties at SpaceX. They have had a lot of success and if he’s responsible for any of it I hope Musk getting too big for his britches with Twitter doesn’t impact our ability to accomplish things in space.

 

[Andropov]

Lots of still-at-Twitter engineers started quoting Elon’s tweets after he fired the Twitter for Android engineer yesterday for doing exactly that. Those people are also getting fired now.

This is just one example, but I’ve seen quite a few in my timeline:
https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1592456205511053312/

Critically, this person was also from the infrastructure team, as were many of the other engineers fired.

 

[Eric]

The memes just keep giving and giving.

 

[Andropov]

He’s been firing people over Slack comments too.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1592525923475390464/

 

[Eric]

He’s been firing people over Slack comments too.

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1592525923475390464/

What people say about you in private or any other platform should be strictly off limits, that is their business. If I litigated every person who bad mouthed me outside of this site we wouldn't have any members left lol.

 

[Andropov]

More SREs have been fired (and reportedly there were not many left), at a time when some services are already down (it seems 2FA is not working, people who log out are locked outside their accounts, 2FA code is never received).

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1592537483002404864/

 

[Eric]

More SREs have been fired (and reportedly there were not many left), at a time when some services are already down (it seems 2FA is not working, people who log out are locked outside their accounts, 2FA code is never received).

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1592537483002404864/

Sad for all these really experienced people, hopefully they're able to find other work.

 

[rdrr]

Sad for all these really experienced people, hopefully they're able to find other work.

You know what boggles my mind? Are people from the right (MAGA crowd) that are cheering this. Weren't they just a few years ago, talking about protecting American jobs?

Oh and if you had to ban people for talking crap about you on other platforms... I can't speak for anyone else, but I would be here liking your posts.

 

[Andropov]

Sad for all these really experienced people, hopefully they're able to find other work.

I think it won’t be long…

https://www.twitter.com/i/web/status/1592535480234835968/

You know what boggles my mind? Are people from the right (MAGA crowd) that are cheering this. Weren't they just a few years ago, talking about protecting American jobs?

No but this is clearly different because Twitter employees are “entitled” or something like that so they deserve it /s

 

[Cmaier]

 

[Nycturne]

 

[lizkat]

^^^ Imagine the actual infrastructure of Twitter now a day at a time, heading towards one or another interesting scenario where the next instruction is to eat the next instruction. "Anyway,,,," indeed.

 

[DT]

The whole 2.0 thing is so 10 years ago, and this notion of being "hardcore", I'm surprised he didn't say something about needing "rockstars". He doesn't need to run people into the ground, and he's 51, this isn't some kind of startup full of 18-19 year olds, there's a way a seasoned CEO goes about this, and what I'm seeing ain't it.

 

[shadow puppet]

Wow.

"Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company. Also, they're still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for."

 

[Cmaier]

Wow.

"Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company. Also, they're still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for."

Come to work! But stand outside!

 

[Cmaier]

Supposedly 900 employees remain.

Let’s see if it spirals into the sun this weekend.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Supposedly 900 employees remain.

Let’s see if it spirals into the sun this weekend.

thats a lot of people staring out in the parking lot.

 

[Eric]

Sounds like maybe they lost more employees over the power hungry prick's ultimatum than they thought they would.

 

[Cmaier]

I’ve told the story before (poor @Colstan has probably read it many times), but this reminds me so much of the time when morale was low at AMD, and Dirk (then in charge of the Austin design team) flew up to California to tell us that if we didn’t like everything the way it was, we should quit. And most of them did.