“I actually wanted to get laid off.”
… “In general, the culture at Twitter is pretty politically progressive. For the supermajority of people, the sentiment toward Elon is negative—and now this, it’s hellish. The company culture is going to change a lot under Elon. When he brought his own people in, it felt like [how] Obama employees must have felt when they were going through the Trump transition. That sense of intrusion. None of the people coming back are people who Twitter employees would like to work with.
“Twitter occupies an interesting part of the social-media landscape. I don’t think there’s any service I know of that can replace it. Using Twitter is kind of like a Rorschach test: your feed is going to look like the kind of people you follow. I love Twitter, because I think I follow the right kind of people. I don’t think any other platform has the same number of academics, writers, poets, and movie directors who just hang out and post whatever thing they like to post. It’s smart, witty, dumb, funny.
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