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Comment by fwungy | Hacker News Reader

Ooh. I touched a nerve here.

I don't have a study, but Twitter works for me. No tech issues. As for the valuation, it's ancillary.

Large tech companies are filled with various paper pushers. They add nothing to the products, and often interfere with them, just so they can justify themselves.

Guess how I know.

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It’s not a nerve. Using a poorly run company as an example of success is very bizarre.

I mean, he's right. Twitter is just as good as it ever was. In fact outside of the USA probably cant even tell there was a transition. I live in Argentina and literally nobody cared. The alternatives (mastodon, bluesky, etc) are nonexistent here.

The point is that twitter's problems have nothing to do with the fact that it massively reduced it's workforce.

The product is as good as it ever has been.

It's problems stem from a single person and many companies being afraid to be associated with them because of their increasingly toxic behavior.

Heres my anecdote: Its broken beyond all measure, the same tweets keep loading on every refresh, you click back it loses your path and resets to another random selection of tweets you have seen mixed with randos. Video has gotten MUCH WORSE to the point where I can't even finagle the damn player to work, it just randomly crashes(before I was able to get it to play with a refresh or two and clicking on the seek bar quickly), sometimes i'm clicking around and it just flat out fails with that "cannot be displayed" error leaving me in the lurch. Ignoring the fact that a lot of good people have left, it just sucks to use even if you want to see the updates of people who are remaining.

It's always been nearly incomprehensible to me, even pre-EM.

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