{"id":8791,"date":"2023-01-29T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/29\/tears-blunders-and-chaos-inside-elon-musks-twitter\/"},"modified":"2023-01-29T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T06:39:00","slug":"tears-blunders-and-chaos-inside-elon-musks-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/29\/tears-blunders-and-chaos-inside-elon-musks-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears, blunders and chaos: inside Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the three months since Musk bought Twitter for \u00a344bn, thousands have been sacked and the company has nosedived. Here, staff tell of a firm in disarray and an owner whose reputation is also plummeting <\/p>\n

In April 2022, Elon Musk acquired a 9.2% stake<\/a> in Twitter, making him the company\u2019s largest shareholder, and was offered a seat on the board. Luke Simon, a senior engineering director at Twitter, was ecstatic. \u201cElon Musk is a brilliant engineer and scientist, and he has a track record of having a Midas touch when it comes to growing the companies he\u2019s helped lead,\u201d he wrote on the workplace messaging platform Slack.<\/p>\n

Twitter had been defined by the leadership of Jack Dorsey<\/a> \u2013 a co-founder who was known for going on long meditation retreats<\/a>, fasting 22 hours a day, and walking five miles to the office \u2013 who was seen by some as an absentee landlord<\/a>, leaving Twitter\u2019s strategy and daily operations to a handful of trusted deputies. To Simon and those like him, it was hard to see Twitter as anything other than wasted potential.<\/p>\n

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\nIn the three months since Musk bought Twitter for \u00a344bn, thousands have been sacked and the company has nosedived. Here, staff tell of a firm in disarray and an owner whose reputation is also plummeting
\nIn April 2022, Elon Musk acquired a 9.2% stake in Twitter, making him the company\u2019s largest shareholder, and was offered a seat on the board. Luke Simon, a senior engineering director at Twitter, was ecstatic. \u201cElon Musk is a brilliant engineer and scientist, and he has a track record of having a Midas touch when it comes to growing the companies he\u2019s helped lead,\u201d he wrote on the workplace messaging platform Slack.
\nTwitter had been defined by the leadership of Jack Dorsey \u2013 a co-founder who was known for going on long meditation retreats, fasting 22 hours a day, and walking five miles to the office \u2013 who was seen by some as an absentee landlord, leaving Twitter\u2019s strategy and daily operations to a handful of trusted deputies. To Simon and those like him, it was hard to see Twitter as anything other than wasted potential. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the three months since Musk bought Twitter for \u00a344bn, thousands have been sacked and the company has nosedived. Here, staff tell of a firm in disarray and an owner whose reputation is also plummeting In April 2022, Elon Musk acquired a 9.2% stake in Twitter, making him the company\u2019s largest shareholder, and was offered …<\/p>\n

Tears, blunders and chaos: inside Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}