Musk actually buys Twitter.

[Duke Nukem]

Cry about it

 

[AnimalNoodles]

Cry about it

Who made this asshole the God of the internet? Mark my words, Greenblatt will be the downfall of the ADL. (Not that I actually care.)

 

[Sobek]

Fully in line with the ADL's history as the org founded on the explicit mission of whitewashing a rapist from his crime.

 

[Agent23]

He is Baaaaack!

 

[Husky_Khan]

Oh no...



New Holocaust Imminent

 

[Duke Nukem]

 

[Agent23]

Twatter HQ after Musky took over, colorized.

I will spear you all my opinions on Musk, but does the guy still take money for the Twatter porject in any way?

I am tempted to see if Twatter is selling bonds, but if they do I might cough up some dough, even if the rates aren't that good.

 

[Sergeant Foley]

The crux of the issue is how many people are actually necessary to run Twitter?

And, bluntly put, I have a hard time imagining there's enough work for a thousand people, much less seven and a half.

How many people do you need writing the code?

It's a stripped down forum-board. One person could write the code for something as simple as Twitter; have a team of three or five to make sure you've got all your bases covered, and you're good. Just to be incredibly over-generous, let's multiply that by ten, so we have thirty to fifty people working on code.

How many people do you need maintaining the hardware?

Twitter is primarily (though no longer exclusively) a text message platform. The amount of data you need to send and receive per-tweet is less than a kilobyte. Every Terrabyte of HD space you have should be able to hold a billion tweets, let's call it half a billion for safety's sake. Some people tweet prolifically, but the proportion compared to total account-holders is tiny, and modular blade servers are extremely low-maintenance, so even if we assume you need another one every day to store everything.

Assuming Twitter even uses its own hardware for hosting, my rough guesstimate would be six people, let's say two dozen to be generous and make sure you have people on-call at all times.

What about marketing?

What marketing? Twitter doesn't do marketing, it's the platform that you market on!

What about handling business with advertisers?

Well, now we're starting to get outside my areas of expertise. I'm something of a techie, but I am not a marketing or advertising wonk. Still, assuming a decent employee can handle at least one advertising client per day (I expect the real number is at least four times that high), if you have let's say a hundred people working with those who want to advertise on your platform, that hundred is enough to have over two thousand advertising clients. That can maintain you a business model.

Of course, if the system is mostly automated, which basic ads almost certainly are, it's going to be way faster than that. I'm just deliberately skewing high because it goes against my point.

Let's talk verification process!

Since Elon's new policy makes this such a big deal, let's get super aggressive and have two hundred people whose dedicated job is verifying that whoever is getting their account verified, is who they claim to be. Obviously this isn't what happened so far, because only an automated system (or a lot of malicious employees deliberately verifying things they shouldn't) could get so many impostor accounts so quickly, especially when they need to have their payment information attached to the back end of the account.

Simple process for verifying accounts; look at the application, see if the credit card data corresponds to the name on the account, if yes, approve, if not, deny. If it's a corporate account, look up the corporation's public contact data, call them up, ask if X person applying for an account is actually them, you're done. Because corporations and the like can be a mess, that might take an hour, or even hours, but individual accounts should take minutes. If you're literally just rubber-stamping 'yes this corresponds,' then that should take less than a minute.

Still, let's roughly assume an average of five minutes per verification based on the above, and each of your 200 employees in that department is averaging 12 verifications an hour, or 96 a day, which comes to 19,200 a day for the lot of them. That'd be 5 million a year. Even if I'm off about the average time by an order of magnitude, that's still 500,000 a year, which is pretty big business.


So, then let's hit legal. How many lawyers do you need?

This, in a more ideal world, should be a handful of people, but let's say you've got a hundred lawyers and less-expensive people working as their aides on full time to advise you, fight in court, and manage 'regulatory compliance' crap. Half of their work is probably going to be blocking specific posts in specific countries that don't have a proper attitude towards Free Speech.


All told, this brings us to 474 people. If we assume you need one manager for every ten people, and we don't count those managers as already productive members of their various departments, that brings our total up to 522 employees at Twitter. Let's add another 28 for 'odd jobs,' and we land at 550 total...

Which is about eight percent of the 7500 people that Twitter had on staff.


Obviously, I'm not an expert in running a large corporation. Obviously, there's going to be all kinds of factors that play into exactly how many people you need. That's why I was deliberately generous in each estimate, but even then, I could be substantially wrong in any given category.

The point though, is it is very, very easy to see how Twitter wasn't just bloated, it was horrifically bloated, and what Elon was talking about months before the deal went through, laying off 75% of people...

Well. Laying off half, and another half quitting, sounds like it's just gotten to what he was talking about in the first place. And it's entirely possible he could still trim more people, and not lose what's important. All of this before we even get into the Pareto Distribution.

Heard Musk brought Trump back on Twitter

 

[Sergeant Foley]

Triggered by Musk, CBS News announces it’s suspending all Twitter activity out of ‘abundance of caution’

CBS Evening News reported that the network is suspending all of its Twitter activity due to "caution" over the "uncertainty" caused by Elon Musk's management.

www.foxnews.com

CBS News got triggered that badly by Musk? 😕

 

[PsihoKekec]

It's not much of a secret that Twatter was an extremely pedophilia friendly place, but there is talk that some of the most known child porn trade hashtags have been purged, a process that will certainly continue for some time, but with pedophilia protecting moderators gone or in hiding it is at least finally happening. It also gives the progressives another impetus for destroying twitter and Musk

 

[Doomsought]

It's not much of a secret that Twatter was an extremely pedophilia friendly place, but there is talk that some of the most known child porn trade hashtags have been purged, a process that will certainly continue for some time, but with pedophilia protecting moderators gone or in hiding it is at least finally happening. It also gives the progressives another impetus for destroying twitter and Musk

I wonder how much of this info is being passed on the the local authorities. I'm not confident that the FBI is clean enough to deal with all of it.

 

[Husky_Khan]

CBS News got triggered that badly by Musk? 😕

They came crawling back.



Just in Case Its Deleted...

 

[edgeworthy]

Fully in line with the ADL's history as the org founded on the explicit mission of whitewashing a rapist from his crime.

So, you are fully in line with Public Lynching then?

 

[Cherico]

So, you are fully in line with Public Lynching then?

Depends on the subject.

 

[Sobek]

So, you are fully in line with Public Lynching then?

You know what? Sure, I am. Cry about it.

 

[LordSunhawk]

The original case there was one of two gross injustices colliding. It is perfectly reasonable to both believe that the ADL was founded purely to whitewash a rapist piece of scum, and to regret the fact that he was lynched rather than dealt with appropriately by law enforcement. Claiming otherwise is a false dichotomy.

 

[Zachowon]

The original case there was one of two gross injustices colliding. It is perfectly reasonable to both believe that the ADL was founded purely to whitewash a rapist piece of scum, and to regret the fact that he was lynched rather than dealt with appropriately by law enforcement. Claiming otherwise is a false dichotomy.

What amd who are we talking about?

 

[Sobek]

Leo Frank case.

Tl;dr 1913 deep south, white girl found dead. Black guy suspected first, police don't buy it. Secons black guy and factory owner, said Leo Frank, become suspect. Massive campaign by jews to protect him crying "antisemitism". It fails hard and the evidence is pretty solid against him (worth noting 5 of the jury were jews too, and the jury unanimously agreed he was guilty) and he gets arrested. Then the ADL is founded and they manage to pressure government to let him go. So the southerners lynch him. ADL then spends the next 100 years "correcting the record" that Leo Crank was a gud boi he dindu nuffing and the black guy he had as a number 2 on the factory did it and managed to somehow flip the jury on Frank.

 

[Cherico]

Leo Frank case.

Tl;dr 1913 deep south, white girl found dead. Black guy suspected first, police don't buy it. Secons black guy and factory owner, said Leo Frank, become suspect. Massive campaign by jews to protect him crying "antisemitism". It fails hard and the evidence is pretty solid against him (worth noting 5 of the jury were jews too, and the jury unanimously agreed he was guilty) and he gets arrested. Then the ADL is founded and they manage to pressure government to let him go. So the southerners lynch him. ADL then spends the next 100 years "correcting the record" that Leo Crank was a gud boi he dindu nuffing and the black guy he had as a number 2 on the factory did it and managed to somehow flip the jury on Frank.

If an all white jury in 1913 believes a black man over you chances are your guilty as hell.

 

[bintananth]

Leo Frank case.

Tl;dr 1913 deep south, white girl found dead. Black guy suspected first, police don't buy it. Secons black guy and factory owner, said Leo Frank, become suspect. Massive campaign by jews to protect him crying "antisemitism". It fails hard and the evidence is pretty solid against him (worth noting 5 of the jury were jews too, and the jury unanimously agreed he was guilty) and he gets arrested. Then the ADL is founded and they manage to pressure government to let him go. So the southerners lynch him. ADL then spends the next 100 years "correcting the record" that Leo Crank was a gud boi he dindu nuffing and the black guy he had as a number 2 on the factory did it and managed to somehow flip the jury on Frank.

What's really interesting about that is the all-white juries, police, and prosecution in pre-WWI Georgia going "Nope, the black guy didn't do it. The jewish guy with an Ivy League college education did."