@NickHeinonen Should the close date be end of 2024? It seems like a couple days into 2024 at latest would be more appropriate.
Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.
Hard to imagine it won't be reversed, but Paul Graham got suspended from Twitter for mentioning he has a Mastodon account: https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/109537017200425834
Seems like many more will follow
Shaking out all the weak people there
https://www.barrons.com/amp/articles/elon-musk-bankrupt-warning-twitter-tesla-51668176077
Instagram had hundreds of millions of users with a dozen people, and frankly Twitter could be better run with a few dozen and an ad team than it has been for years.
Elon is shaking out all the rot of teams that never ship, the majority of staff being hall monitors and commissars, and something between user count fraud and incompetence by the anti-spam teams.
Wouldn’t be surprised if >90% turnover occurs, and even on 2b revenue (50% haircut) it’s trivial to get back to cash flow positivity after cleaning house.