Twitter New CEO

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1656747082571722753

by eecc • 3 years ago

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jacooper• 3 years ago

Wait, Elon as CTO? I though that this couldn't get worse but somehow it does.

minimaxir3• 3 years ago

He was already de facto CTO, given his experience with requiring employees to print out code and firing them from it.

d232• 3 years ago

And head of product. You know, because of his razor sharp social media product sense.

dragonwriter3• 3 years ago

Elon is focusing more narrowly on the things he is least qualified at, so as to maximize his ability to destroy the firm.

sonotathrowaway• 3 years ago

What’s the point of buying a company and running it into the ground if you can’t cosplay as an engineer

minimaxir3• 3 years ago

The fact that Elon didn't also announce who the CEO will be is very telling.

Given his sense of humor I bet he hired an AI to be CEO.

kwertyoowiyop• 3 years ago

Meet . . . ‘Elona’!

mindcrime• 3 years ago

I saw one article that quoted him as saying 'she' will be starting... my first thought was that it will be Grimes. Doing something like that seems totally in-keeping with Musk's style.

lastofthemojito• 3 years ago

My first thought was Shivon Zilis. Elon seems to like to keep his inner circle tight.

rad_gruchalski• 3 years ago

I saw one article that quoted him as saying 'she' will be starting...

The tweet reads:

Excited to announce that I’ve a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks!

eecc2• 3 years ago

Wasn’t there a child protection activist, somewhat related to the Trump-sphere, that used to court him during the first months of his tenure?

I hope he hasn’t taken that bait…

BulgarianIdiot3• 3 years ago

I think one of the Twitter execs is the CEO. This entire exercise is to allow him to distance himself from the dumpster he set on fire.

It's not him kidding. Also his "humor", stolen memes aside, 9/10 times only used to mask unexpected turn of events behind the scenes (such as being sued about something he said, or something turning out really, really wrong).

retox• 3 years ago

Stolen memes? What an odd concept.

flykespice• 3 years ago

His sense of humour is so cringe, he is trying so hard to be in touch with Gen Z humour.

rvz• 3 years ago

So looking back over the past 6 months of Twitter under Elon Musk, it is safe to say that after all the outrage and senseless screeching over the layoffs, Twitter has still survived with its ~220M+ daily active users (DAU) and there was little to no 'migration' or even a sign of Twitter completely collapsing as that was incorrectly predicted. [0] [1]

How the media has fooled almost everyone here and has taken advantage of basic human psychology to sensationalize headlines and distractions to create hysteria to gather clickbait and eyeballs of its readers since they still rely heavily on getting their online news from Twitter.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33701371

eecc2• 3 years ago

I did notice an increase in UI glitches. I guess the codebase is just as flaky as it has ever been, but they used to canary their changes so gradually that 99% problems were caught at that stage

clipsy• 3 years ago

Twitter has still survived with its ~220M+ daily active users (DAU)

The same figure Elon claimed was mostly bots?

sschueller• 3 years ago

The Twitter android app sometimes manages to freeze my entire phone. It never did this pre Elon and no other app even ones that crash manage to freeze the entire phone.

BulgarianIdiot3• 3 years ago

What the media said is irrelevant.

Those who have experience with such projects predicted very accurately what will happen.

1) The basic service will mostly stay up one way or another. Because otherwise all is lost.

2) Many auxiliary services will start degrading or going away. For example, yesterday search autocomplete was disabled after it started autocompleting everything in obscene ways.

3) We'll experience more frequent outages and glitches (and we do).

4) His velocity will grind to a halt. Meaning, he can't ship new features at depth, only superficial crap, and things that were started long before he bought the company.

He's also deeply in red right now, after losing over half his ad revenue and the 600k or so blue checkmark subscribers are netting him about 1% of what he lost in ads.

terminatornet• 3 years ago

search autocomplete on twitter is currently disabled because as of a few days ago, if you searched "dog" or "cat", the top results apparently would be videos of animals being tortured.

I'm sure advertisers will love having their content next to animals being maimed and mutilated. Guess all those people who got laid off weren't doing much except preventing millions of users from seeing dogs being dismembered.

d232• 3 years ago

Going to predict he’s completely unable to not meddle in the decisions of the CEO, and either the CEO is as erratic as he is and is fine with it or she is not and is no longer in the role within a short amount of time.

weinzierl• 3 years ago

Why did he write "X/Twitter"?

denysvitali• 3 years ago

Because X is now the legal entity behind Twitter, and Twitter is the product now, AFAIK

minimaxir3• 3 years ago

The copyright notice on Twitter now points to X too.

lapcat2• 3 years ago

My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.

What else is there? Sounds like the new CEO may be a figurehead just to satisfy his previous "promise" to step down.

Dudelander2• 3 years ago

Human resources, finance, sales, marketing, legal, customer service...

lapcat2• 3 years ago

Twitter is a tech company. Would you feel like the CEO of a tech company if you weren't overseeing the tech and software? Will Musk answer or defer to the CEO with regard to product decisions? I suspect not...

I think the idea that people had, especially Tesla stockholders, is that Musk would kind of step back from Twitter and re-focus on Tesla.

lolc• 3 years ago

So the CTO reports to the CEO who reports to the chairman. Who is the CTO. That circle just about guarantees that the fireworks will continue.

dragonwriter3• 3 years ago

So the CTO reports to the CEO who reports to the chairman. Who is the CTO.

Also, the chairman reports to the board who report to the single shareholder (the corporate parent of X Corp which is X Holdings Corp) which reports ultimately to X Holding Corps shareholders which are…the same person as the CTO and Chairman of X Corp.

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