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Elon fired 99.4% of twitter staff and the site is still running so far
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Nick Huber
BREAKING:
Musk is now running Twitter with less than 50 key employees, down for 7,500 at its peak.
“Everything is normal, we may be profitable soon.” He says.
(media.greatawakening.win)
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For a site like Twitter? Probably. You don't need a team of thousands of coders to make and maintain what is essentially a forum where people make posts. Especially not if an "algorithm" is what is handling most bans.
Even game development has a max of like, 3-400 and a lot of those get shifted to other teams after development is complete. That's a group of people creating something from (in some cases) nothing.
Twitter is a forum. I wonder how many people are working on the .wins.
Your number of employees shrinks further if you are contracting out your servers to a farm too.
Yeah if they are not having to maintain servers they don’t need as many employees as they had. I wonder what types of folks didn’t quit? Obviously not afraid to do work.
Server farms are notorious for being staffed by very few people. We have a lot of them out here where electricity is only 2.6 cents per kwh. They consume power, but hardly hire anyone and they usually bring those employees from out of town.
Meanwhile the lib.s are trying to tear down all the damns built by our forefathers, cuz fish or something.
Well yes and no. You may not have to deal woth the physical infrastructure but you still have to manage the operating systems. Patching and OS upgrades, security, install and life cycle management. It can be mostly virtual but you still need people to manage all that. Historically they were the same people that would have managed the hardware.
A lot of that is automatable now, and if not, unfortunately, much can be outsourced to India.
Yeah my company just did the India thing. Whatever man. Tell yourself whatever you need to believe. It's fine. I just know the reality on the ground. Indian folk, some of them, are very good. Mostly those make it to the US and upon getting here demand a salary like those who are already here.
I lived in Silicon Valley in the 1980's and am a software developer. I wanted a family and a life, meaning I wanted mostly 40 hour weeks, whereas SV insisted the minimum was 60 hour weeks and asked for 80.
I left SV for that reason.
And I have no sympathy for the Twitter workers as they were abusers both for suppression of Conservative thought, but also of their employers largesse.
Even with mostly automated systems, you do need people to maintain them, even if they live in the cloud. Things go wrong all the time and someone has to go in and intervene. So that being said I do believe he can operate with a skeleton crew, but that would limit the future as no new things can be added. But new things can be for sometime in the future and not now.
Right? A medium town employer who values your skills and needs them will pay you more and let you be true to your own self (family etc) because everyone needs a website nowadays.
As I said in another post though, he has Tesla employees involved in the transition and a massive pool of talent to draw from, so where he may need more people, he can pull them in and train as needed without importing the old Twitter culture.
I suppose that's the thing I left out of this post; more may end up being needed to maintain systems, but by starting from scratch and getting rid of the meditation room safe space types, he can remove that messed up culture and prevent it from tainting new hires.
I actually listed recent MMO expansion numbers, and that does include management and marketing, and also engine developers, so on.
Additionally, processing data is not exactly a manual job. It's automated and the automation is maintained. As long as you have the processing capacity, required LAN and internet speeds and the baseline code (as well as people who know how to modify, add and subtract) most of the initial work is done.
Maintaining a system is very much different than starting a system from scratch, and while I'm being a bit reductionist here for the sake of post size, they certainly didn't need the meditation room safe space types that taint the work culture for new hires.
I'm not sure why I opened your post and it had a downvote, especially since nothing you said is wrong.