https://www.axios.com/2023/05/16/twitter-elon-musk-acquisition

Twitter makes first acquisition of Elon Musk era

The transaction helps fulfill the billionaire’s aspirations to turn Twitter into a “super-app.”

Seems like Twitter is still firing people:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/elon-musk-has-fired-almost-everyone-at-twitter-report-states/news-story/150ff8b7235f114f2c382fcc3b717cfd

They are struggling to even retain the ones they have left

@Odoacre You mean they are still firing some of them. That's not the same thing, and also retention is not the same as hiring.

@RobinGreen they are tying to entice them to stay by promising "significant" stock grants to whoever sticks around. But yes, they are still firing people too. I don't think that's very encouraging for potential talent.

@Odoacre Note that the signaling value of being hired at a company that fired more than half of it's previous engineers is very high.

@Shai Also people understand that it's "old twitter" engineers getting fired. No reason to expect the job security for new hires will be as bad (probably still worse than other companies, I admit!)

Personally it sounds like a nightmare job, the company has pretty bad prospects, and you could work for something cool like AI instead which is the next big thing.

Would it count if they are struggling specifically trying to hire back engineers they previously fired, even if they can easily hire other engineers?

@fleventy I don't think it should count. That's a very different thing. Burned bridges and all that.

@fleventy No, that’s another question.

Is Twitter going to aggressively hire engineers after a massive round of layoffs last year?

The mainstream media hate Elon Musk, Big Tech (although Twitter isn't that big), and the Elon Musk version of Twitter, so even "reliable sources" aren't necessarily going to reliable if they report this, so I won't be participating in this market.

@RobinGreen https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-media-very-rarely-lies

@ersatz This is the second time I've seen this article being misinterpreted here. The article in fact in fact draws parallels between the misrepresentation seen in Infowars and NY Times.

We are now in January, any claim from a reliable media would resolve this market from now on until the last day of June.

Note the weasel words condition: A sentence like "Twitter, which has had trouble hiring developers..." would resolve the market positively. A sentence like "Twitter, which has been said to have difficulty hiring developers...", would not resolve the market positively. It should be stated as fact by the media and not reported as someone else's opinion.