What Twitter employees are saying about Elon Musk
In the moments before Elon Musk bought Twitter, the company’s Slack channels were lit up with nervous anticipation. It had been days since Twitter leadership had shared anything with them, and after a weekend’s worth of reports that a sale was imminent, employees were looking for answers.
For the first few hours of the morning, none came. Work all but came to a halt, employees told me. Like a classroom where the teacher is late and students are attempting to self-govern, one said. A “hellhole,” said another. One thread, in which an employee asked good-naturedly whether anyone was excited about the prospect of working for Musk, drew dozens of responses, many of them quite ugly.
Then, just before the markets closed, the news arrived: the…
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May 23, 2022 @ 12:09 pm
I don’t know what to make of it.
Their “writers” (or the names attached to their articles) don’t seem to exist for one thing. And the articles themselves are never original and are instead just lifted almost verbatim from legitimate websites.
I know a company that outsourced some promotional writing work to them and the result has been catastrophic; abysmal bot-level writing that I guess they have an assembly line of third world labour working on.
My feeling is that it’s run by one or two wheeler dealers who don’t know the first thing about journalism and are getting very rich somehow, but it’s just a hunch.
Anyone else know what’s going on with this place?