Revenue and user ship are steadily decreasing according to most estimates. Glitches and outages started happening immediately. Third party apps have been exiled. Hate speech and misinformation has surged.
From the outside it seems like the ship is gradually, painfully sinking.
Lean and focused execution, quick iteration, over promise and under deliver (yes, in business it pays as much as engineers hate it), most people are actually a drag to productivity. Specifically with Twitter he drastically cut the head count and cost and all the people swearing how irreplaceable people being fired were and his Twitter is going to collapse any minute now were all wrong.
Unlike most people praising the idea of egoless I don't need to like the guy to learn from him.
> all the people swearing how ... Twitter is going to collapse any minute now were all wrong.
This I agree with you on. I was one of the people thinking that it couldn't last long, and I eat my words. It's remarkable how long a stubborn maniacal captain can keep a sinking ship above the water.
> I don't need to like the guy to learn from him.
This is the bit I don't get. Estimates put total revenue at well under $1b this year, compared with over $3b in 2023 and over $4b in 2022 [0]. Cutting the headcount would mitigate some of this, but surely not that much?
It seems likely that the daily active users are also seeing a big hit, although the company has been very guarded about this figure since Musk's takeover. Instead Musk has given platitudes about being the "number one source of news" in some countries. If the DAU was doing well I think he'd be talking about that instead.
Revenue and user ship are steadily decreasing according to most estimates. Glitches and outages started happening immediately. Third party apps have been exiled. Hate speech and misinformation has surged.
From the outside it seems like the ship is gradually, painfully sinking.