Only 1.6% of people who threatened to quit Twitter have actually left

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[–]IX-Hispana[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

There's been some differences:

  • 5000 fewer employees. Turns out most of those jobs were pure bloat since the service runs fine without them.
  • Advertisers leaving. This one made people prophetize the end. We all saw the "final" tweets, people doing retrospectives and so on. And now advertisers are quietly crawling back, the pricks.
  • A lot less child porn. This is obviously the most important one and it was worth $44b if you ask me.

You have seen no difference because the doomsaying was wrong. It was motivated reasoning by what people who hate Elon Musk wanted to happen more than any objective assessment. Don't expect the service to degrade in 90 days.

[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Turns out most of those jobs were pure bloat

They were propaganda editors. The site literally runs better without them.

[–]Schwarzenigga 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

5000 fewer employees. Turns out most of those jobs were pure bloat since the service runs fine without them.

This is your opinion, not evidence of a site-wide assessment by Twitter, nor would there be an immediate change in the system. We'll know in 30-90 days.

And now advertisers are quietly crawling back, the pricks.

This is also your opinion, and unrelated to what in general has happened. Apple and Amazon resumed advertising, per the article, whereas "Many companies from General Mills Inc (GIS.N) to luxury automaker Audi of America stopped or paused advertising." If advertisers return, we'll know in 30-90 days, not right away.

A lot less child porn.

This is also just your opinion. You're linking to the claims of a few people on Twitter, which may or may not be accurate, and do not specifically claim to address child porn, in the 44.000 suspicious accounts. That's a person or several people claiming that he/they suspended suspicious accounts in a 24-hour period. They are required to do this (re. child porn) by many nations. We will not know if they have been effective until 30-90 days have passed.

[–]IX-Hispana[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sure mate. See you in a couple months.