What's going to happen is that we'll find out either of these are true:
1) Elon will run this thing to ground and site will disappear one day, and entirely stop working for days. Elon will call up ex-employees with 2x overtime pay to help fix it. They might not. It will be a major news event since most politicians these days are on Twitter and Elon's reputation will be forever tarnished. Other CEOs and leaders will join the mocking gang.
2) Elon will show to the world that Twitter can just run fine with 75% less work force and all you need is highly motivated, talented (and compensated) employees. It will be a direct testament to the fact that these woke corporations in SF/SV are totally dysfunctional and they've had a good ride so far from the adtech boom.
We'll have to return back to your comment and see how it ages. Stakes are high.
Life isn't usually that spectacle. More likely scenario is that we'll see more frequent small-medium outages from Twitter, Elon frantically tries to bring/borrow engineers from everywhere (likely many from Tesla and SpaceX) to make it barely survive from all the fiasco. Then Elon will finally learn that there probably was a good reason for all the 7500 people in the hard way then finally re-invent the wheel from the scratch.
1) Twitter stays up without a hitch: A testament to how relisilient Twitter architecture is even with someone actively trying to fuck it up. Elon clearly does not want Twitter to survive, but thanks to ex-Twitter employees who built such a great resilient system.
2) Twitter goes down in flames: This is what happens when a megalomanian billionaire takes over a complicated distributed scalable system. These billionaires have no idea how complex systems work.
They will, until the first company actually has serious issues after cutting staffing and then they will get very skiddish and hyper conservative about everything again and it will just be another decade of stock buybacks.
most big tech companies have more than one product that has not meaningfully changed or added competitive features in 10 years. twitter is being run like it's world of warcraft when it is actually ffxi.
1) Elon will run this thing to ground and site will disappear one day, and entirely stop working for days. Elon will call up ex-employees with 2x overtime pay to help fix it. They might not. It will be a major news event since most politicians these days are on Twitter and Elon's reputation will be forever tarnished. Other CEOs and leaders will join the mocking gang.
2) Elon will show to the world that Twitter can just run fine with 75% less work force and all you need is highly motivated, talented (and compensated) employees. It will be a direct testament to the fact that these woke corporations in SF/SV are totally dysfunctional and they've had a good ride so far from the adtech boom.
We'll have to return back to your comment and see how it ages. Stakes are high.