Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "New Awful Twitter Changes" video.

Based on what people are saying, people can only keep their check marks by paying, so in a way they are still all paying for Twitter. Ppl like Lebron James are making it a point to say they're not paying for shit
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@urbanchameleon Fucking yikes
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Musk fired all the moderators and even a lot of the staff that work on the core systems. He even tried to fire people he couldn't legally fire (referring to Halli, which is a crazy story in itself). It's no wonder the platform barely functions as it is.
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@RyuFitzgerald Musk "didn't have a choice" because he overpaid out of the ass for Twitter and took out giant loans for his purchase at a time when interest rates were at a 30 year high. The interest he pays on his purchase is why he's in such a dire position financially, and it's nobody's fault but his own. Those employees didn't ask or want a billionaire to single-handedly buy their company and basically bankrupt the company before new management even arrived, but that's what happened. Musk did have a choice, he could've chose not to feed his own ego and obsession with tweeting by buying a $44 Billion company that's now valued under $20 Billion only months later.
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If you can't give a blue checkmark to the og chocolate rain guy, then who the hell do you give a blue checkmark to
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@RyuFitzgerald It absolutely does matter what Musk paid for it, because those loans automatically became Twitter's own debt, i.e. Musk basically forced the company into massive debt and yearly interest fees that it could not possibly pay off - this is why Musk fired nearly all of Twitter's employees. He's basically pulling out every stop to try to make Twitter turn a profit, or at the very least pay off their interest payments (thus his asinine "Twitter Blue" debacle), all so it doesn't go bankrupt from the interest rates alone. Buying Twitter for $44 Billion was such a terrible decision that it basically doomed the company and all its employees before the business even turned ownership, ensuring the company would spiral and snowball into more debt unless drastic changes were made. In other words, all this shit is 100% Musk's fault. While you're correct tech companies are laying off workers, layoffs of 80-90% of all employees is beyond insane. For perspective, Disney laid off thousands of workers that accounted for 3-4% of its headcount. Facebook (or should I say, "Meta") is one of the most drastic examples considering they also spent upwards of $36 Billion on the failed Metaverse. After spending nearly as much money as Musk on Twitter, it still has only laid off 12% of its workforce so far. There are announcements that this number may rise in the next year, but even their worst projections has a max overall reduction of 25% of their headcount. In other words, what Musk is doing is so unprecedented that even Meta's colossal fuckup with the Metaverse doesn't even come close to the complete mismanagement and dumpster fire that Twitter has unfortunately become - likely why everyone is seeing NSFW, gore and snuff videos on their For You timelines & many of their core systems just stop working suddenly from time to time.
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It's a combination of Twitter being broken from 80% of its employees being fired (many of their core systems don't even function at times) along with Musk apparently boosting a weird mix of Twitter accounts for likely his own personal reasons.
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Surprised the platform is still even worth $20 billion
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More like *billionaires. The only thing that could ever be worse than Zuckerberg's big brain idea to give Meta avatar's legs as his big announcement, is Elon Musk and his giant scheme to fire 80-90% of Twitter staff and watch the company burn away $24 Billion of its value through consecutive acts of sheer incompetence and transparent cash grabs out of financial desperation.
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Musk is somehow not only making the platform infinitely worse with these decisions but also simultaneously making it feel like a giant slap in the face for long-time users.
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