you're half right, twitter was overvalued but they did have a lot of core staff keeping it running smoothly. the months following musk's takeover were a constant shitshow of stuff constantly breaking, data leaks, just endless shit. a brief overview; > musk buys twitter (is forced to in the end) and claims he's gonna end its corruption/wokeness/destroy boys > musk gets rid of the verified system (famous people/businesses get blue ticks) > replaces it with "pay to get a blue tick" > people immediately start impersonating celebrities and businesses > musk bans anyone who does this to him specifically > he then makes it so that impersonating someone without having "parody" in your name gets you banned > mass staff layoffs; 50% of staff are gone > random banned people are re-added (including trump) > name change to x (to this day most call it twitter, or "formerly twitter" because everyone either doesn't know what x is or remembers musk fucking up paypal > musk runs into problems with the digital service act in the eu, when it's revealed that x is a breeding ground for scam accounts or for blatant disinformation camapigns from foreign nations > musk adds the verification system back in-but keeps the paying for blue ticks-by creating like 5 other types of "official" verifications > a lot of shit on twitter breaks; blocking breaks, messages break, 2 factor authentication breaks (and is then locked behind a paywall), the site regularly goes down for days at at time > turns out many of those fired were literally just code jobbers keeping shit running > musk "gets rid of the bots" by charging a fuckload of money for people to use the api stuff that accounts such as "a cool shark every day!" use > most of these (very popular) gimmick accounts die instantly > but there are in fact far more porn bots, ai bots, pajeet bots > because you can now "get paid" for engagement if you pay for a blue tick, every popular tweet has dozens of pajeet burner accounts spamming underneath 1/2
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