Twitter Plans Company Wide Layoffs, Cancels Headquarters Expansion Leader 10/11/15 (Sun) 21:20:10 53b9ea No. 286080
Good news, shitlords, seems Twatter is on the ropes.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/reports-twitter-planning-company-wide-layoffs-next-week-ditching-hq-expansion/
Supposedly, the layoffs will be quite significant. I wonder who will be on the chopping block. Could be good news for us if it includes some of the idiots that promote block bots and organizations named CON that do nothing and ban people to protect pedophiles. If they lose a good portion of those worthless employees, how are they going to be able to stem the onslaught of shitposting?
Leader 10/11/15 (Sun) 22:04:21 14b569 No. 286103
I think this will be ground zero for the social media bubble burst.
Leader 10/11/15 (Sun) 22:08:19 53b9ea No. 286105
Who is Randi's Twitter contact? We should watch to see if he gets shitcanned.
Leader 10/11/15 (Sun) 23:41:18 f0535c No. 286143
>>286080
I guess it all comes down to if Jack Dorsey is sympathetic to SJW ideals anyone know if he is?
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 00:53:02 c59324 No. 286171
>Lets promote block bots so that when there are sponsored tweets, those who are blocked will never see them
Only idiots promote shit that blinds there own user base.
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 01:00:45 130557 No. 286173
>>286143
All I know is that he's supposedly pro-free speech, and he pisses off Arthur Chu.
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 01:11:10 2731e3 No. 286176
Soon they will go the way of the dodo, along with Facebook
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 01:15:56 560c26 No. 286178
>>286173
That doesn't necessarily mean that he is not an SJW.
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 01:20:35 8e68d8 No. 286180
>>286171
you monster. How could you?
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 01:44:52 d70a4d No. 286189
This is crazy. First, things with Facebook start looking bad (the reason they probably bought out the Rift is to get into something new to fall back on for when Facebook completely goes irrelevant), all the shit that happened with reddit, and now this shit is happening with twitter. With this, and all this shit going on with trying to censor the internet, this is basically the nuclear war era of the internet.
Now the question is, whats next? Will we enter into a post apocalyptic era of the internet? Or will the likes of Facebook, twitter and so on fading away be the end of the internet as a communication platform, and then it turns into television 2.0 where you go to read what the media is saying and not what people are saying?
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 02:31:31 eb1eed No. 286216
>>286189
> First, things with Facebook start looking bad (the reason they probably bought out the Rift is to get into something new to fall back on for when Facebook completely goes irrelevant)
you have the most adorable worldview i ever did see
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 02:48:03 5a8931 No. 286232
I guess they'll replace the employees with more bots.
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 02:56:38 0e893d No. 286241
>>286103
>>286176
Nope. Twitter has been spectacularly mismanaged and has only survived because idiots running hedge funds think that 'le social medias' are a money bag and have been pumping cash into this boat like it's going to suck them off.
>We're growing, maybe we should actually make a business plan that will pay for our servers!
>Boy, we're growing, maybe we should hire 3-5 coders to improve the speed of our lower level infrastructure rather than spend millions of man hours rewriting our software that already works!
>We're growing, but costs are going up, maybe we shouldn't be buying out worthless companies that don't improve our profitability!
Their business strategy could be improved by hiring a crack baby with Down's syndrome. The only factor in how long they were going to last was how well they could hide their cluelessness from investors. Luckily for them it seems that they can barely competent either.
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 04:58:34 ec15b8 No. 286361
>>286189
Ever heard of MySpace etc.? Nothing will happen, social networks come and go as users migrate. Facebook isn't that "rad" once the kids realize that they're using same mainstream service as their parents and grandparents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 05:08:30 00ca40 No. 286370
>make successful website with no profit growth potential
>HOW ARE WE GONNA PROFIT FROM THIS?
>go public
>sell stocks ASAP because you'll never get higher than the IPO
>???
>regret not selling out to Facebook for $1 gorillion earlier
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 05:15:30 376ab7 No. 286377
>>286189
What's amazing to me is how the internet emulates real empires, except where real empires typically last 200 years, internet empires typically last 10 years. eBay and steam are two notable exceptions. Otherwise, we've seen the same situation repeat on myspace, somethingawful, halfchan, cracked, the entire game journo industry, and so on.
As for what's next, well Facebook killed MySpace because it did what MySpace did better. People are I'm sure getting pretty sick of the management at facebook, but not even google could unseat them.
I think it won't be unseated until someone comes up with a more attractive interface with some method for building a database of users that's easier and more efficient than Facebook, something that would be able to reasonably claim that it can reconnect anyone with anyone else.
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 05:26:59 53b9ea No. 286391
>>286361
Facebook started jumping the shark when companies began using it as a second permanent resume. Who the fuck wants to use a social media network to be spied on by your boss?
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 06:31:07 1113b7 No. 286458
>>286377
ebay lost popularity over the years.
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 06:45:12 c1cb80 No. 286465
>>286173
What's the story behind Dorsey not being liked by Chu?
Leader 10/12/15 (Mon) 23:44:07 0ab0f9 No. 287053
Maybe twitter's last ditch effort of monetization was selling private info to 3rd parties like Facebook does.
They found people who could dig up private info (helldump) hired them for "abuse prevention" and any time an abuse report comes in there's a fresh target to mine for shekels. If no abuse happens, well the helldump hires are also good at causing it so there's job security and endless amounts of info to get and sell.
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 00:02:17 526eaa No. 287057
>>286216
He's not wrong, though.
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 00:27:52 7b98a7 No. 287063
>>287057
Half-wrong is still wrong.
Facebook never looked good past the initial IPO hype and its currently going through the phases of being a large internet giant much that google and yahoo did before it. The Oculus buyout is largely irrelevant even in the long term because its growth is tied to the social media site first and foremost (even if the rift takes off i would have to wonder if they can profit from just unit sales alone). I dont think social media is going to fade away its just that silicon valley cucks are now focusing on other trendy shit like subscriber services (uber, spotify etc)
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 01:32:36 e9e978 No. 287099
>>286458
Basically. Paypal was their primary source of income for years until the separation. It is unlikely that eBay will ever vanish but rather that another company will absorb them in the long run.
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 02:46:48 ea37e7 No. 287144
>>286080
>one of the busiest websites in the world
>no real business model
You run out of other people's money at some point.
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 02:56:51 ea37e7 No. 287156
>>286241
>We're growing, but costs are going up, maybe we shouldn't be buying out worthless companies that don't improve our profitability!
It's almost like the real money-making transpires when VCs dump worthless companies.
a dreaming poni 10/13/15 (Tue) 06:06:10 5d166e No. 287277
>>286080
I love to think our tantrum is part of what made this dream come true, which exposed not only the clique that runs @support, but the ridiculous flaws in their report system algorithms and how fucktarded their new "IM BEING HURRAZZ'D" report buttons are.
Just like with vidya sites, advertisers and companies no longer trust them. Especially not to get their hashtags hijacked. ;]
a dreaming poni 10/13/15 (Tue) 06:13:14 5d166e No. 287280
>>286370
dat dere is sum damb fine smuggin'
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 08:08:16 fb6583 No. 287322
Jim Profit !v1qvN3abLY 10/13/15 (Tue) 09:36:14 250ee3 No. 287352
As far as moderators go, Twitter is on the safer end of "social media".
Facebook is the worst contender, hell Myspace was pretty fucking terrible. All in all Tumblr and Twitter respect your rights and the law more than most places Not saying they don't do shit, they just stink up the place a lot less.
Jim Profit !v1qvN3abLY 10/13/15 (Tue) 09:41:53 250ee3 No. 287354
>>286189
>Communication platform
Yes, I'm such a social butterfly basically only having the option to "like" or "ignore" shit posted by CocoCola because the moment I say something rulecucks like you want it gone and Facebook just thinks the law does not fucking apply to them and ritualistically bans me and others which is ILLEGAL.
You're probably too young to remember the 90s kid. Back before moderators were a pervasive entity online. Sure they existed, but it was much easier to DDOS their low brow websites that ran on shitty java scripts. (So basically everywhere was 8chan.)
It was slightly more difficult to dox people cause no one was retarded enough to just plaster their real name and phone number out there, but honestly phishing for IPs was pretty simple too to flood their network and cripple their online activity for as long as you cared enough to pursue doing it.
Basically this is the modern equivalent of the wild west. Not nuclear war. The wild west also had outlaws called moderators with no accountability. Course back then we had this thing called regulators that just fucking shot them and their families. We don't have regulators, (sept me of course) and they're necessary to cooperate with central authorities like the FBI to snuff out moderator criminals.
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 09:58:53 e660f3 No. 287360
>>287354
jim please visit /ints/ as soon as bui has found some sakamoto paws to lick
we want to talk
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 15:20:19 f8209a No. 287439
>>286080
>a site that takes 160 character SMS text messages and ties them to user names in a forum style conversation requires 3000+ employees
the layoffs were INEVITABLE. A crew of 12 buddies playing ping-pong in a 30th floor office suite inbetween hourly checks that the servers are up are more than what twitter needs.
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 19:02:32 c515c3 No. 287503
>>287063
At some point social media ID will be a quasi-governmental ID mechanism, like credit cards.
That's why I have a clean social media account under my real name, and several more (confirmed with burner cellphones) for shitposting.
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 19:04:23 c515c3 No. 287505
>>286377
Online communities have a lifespan of three to five years before abandonment or 100% user turnover. This has always been the case, back to the FidoNet days.
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 19:11:51 c515c3 No. 287507
>>287354
>You're probably too young to remember the 90s kid. Back before moderators were a pervasive entity online.
Usenet had Joel Furr and David Lawrence who would cancel groups they didn't like. But once the net got too big their influence waned.
There are always issue laden control freaks. People like Randwhale are nothing new.
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 19:21:41 bd05d1 No. 287508
>>287507
>People like Randwhale are nothing new.
the funny thing is she doesn't have have the power, it's a butt-buddy that runs inside favors for her. I really do hope whomever it is gets the axe.
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 20:09:17 0eeddf No. 287532
>>286377
>Facebook killed MySpace because it did what MySpace did better.
Bullshit. MySpace was infinitely better than Facebook at the time. Then News Corp bought it and fucked it up.
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 20:42:51 a69ec2 No. 287548
>>286080
Praise Jesus that God awful site will be put in the ground permanently soon,how does that shihole make money?i don't see any ads anywhere.
Leader 10/13/15 (Tue) 22:34:11 1996cf No. 287605
>>287507
>Joel Furr
Fricking Furr-y.
Leader 11/20/15 (Fri) 22:30:52 b61f7c No. 300145
I think this sums up Facebook vs. Twitter pretty well.
Leader 11/20/15 (Fri) 22:31:26 b61f7c No. 300146
Leader 11/20/15 (Fri) 22:34:01 b61f7c No. 300148
either I'm a fucking noob-ass shit or image upload isn't working for me
sage sage 11/20/15 (Fri) 22:38:10 b61f7c No. 300149
TL;DR check Facebook and Twitter's stock prices over the past year.