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I'm thinking more of the technical side. I can't imagine much needs to change on the hardware side. I have no idea if it requires major software/database changes. I thought you'd have more of an appreciation of that aspect. It's not like tearing down a casino just so you can build an almost identical casino with different management.

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I thought you'd have more of an appreciation of that aspect.

I am not a believer in reinventing the wheel for no reason. But I do appreciate that often massive technical infrastructure changes are required when there is a change in revenue model / business model.

That being said, I don't think Elon wants to redo the entire tech stack just for the hell of it. I think he's focused on making Twitter profitable, and doing whatever it takes to make that happen.

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I have deep doubt that the changes were for "change in revenue model".

At first I did some hope as Elon did speak about how WeChat had a pay with app feature. Paypal memories?

As to advertisers, it was clear from months ago that if he bought, car makers could jump ship as well, a bit too obvious.

Changes? It's been a dumpster fire and now more dumpsters on fire. Today folk are posting full movies since the auto-moderation system was shutdown. DMCA takedown notices are now in the thousands from a word from a disgruntled employee. All this makes who's left to just manually plug away at the deluge of DMCA requests.

When I wrote a month, it appears this may have been too generous. It's going down in weeks.

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I find it unbelievable that Musk walks in on day one and says the code has faults here, here, and here (realy? is he the greatest coder ever born and can see the errors straight away, in code he is inspecting for the first time? (World's fastest speed reader as well, I take it), you lot over there don't know what you are doing, so I am going to sack you, including managers who just might know who is good at their job and who is bad at it. How does he know instantly who wrote the code? And who got it wrong, who got it right? He's sacking a high percentage of the work force!

It's possible he is trying to destroy Twitter out of spite because he was forced to do what the contract he had signed said - ie buy it at the price you said you'd pay. Perhaps he took out insurance against it going bust within a year, to recover his money. But what insurer would do that given the price he paid.

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commented: Ole Musky didn't buy the whole thing. Look at the other investors/sheep. +0
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It's now a year later, and apparently Twitter ended up in the trash. We only have X now ... ;)

commented: Elon almost had a go with put videos on X. Till someone clued him in. +0
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