In the aftermath of IBM, Disney and Apple pausing spending on X, formerly known as Twitter, top advertising executives made a personal appeal to CEO Linda Yaccarino.

  • @radix
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    11 months ago

    Scapegoat. She’s just Elon’s puppet anyway, and he’d replace her with another puppet. The problem is the owner.

    To be clear, she (and lots of other employees) should resign on principle, but not because it would change things at twitter for the better.

    • @[email protected]
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      911 months ago

      Aren’t most of the people left who do actual work at Twitter in the US on work visas? The conditions for them to stay in the country make quitting on principle extremely difficult.

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        11 months ago

        It’s been a year or so. Even in a weaker hiring landscape, software/data/systems engineers are still in high demand. They would have likely been able to leave by now.

        At this point it’s likely true believers, right wingers, billionaire bootlickers and people playing a “twitter will rise again” angle.

    • @[email protected]
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      611 months ago

      If mass resignations made it impossible to function and/or forces him to sell, that could make it better.

      • Flying Squid
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        111 months ago

        All the people with H1-B visas that work at Twitter won’t resign because they don’t want to get deported. Musk knows it too.

        • @IphtashuFitz
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          211 months ago

          They’ve had a year to find new employment if they wanted to. While having an H1B may make it more difficult to find a new job, it in no way requires them to remain employed at X/twitter.

    • @[email protected]
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      511 months ago

      It’s stock value would crash even lower, which would in some ways be changing things for the better

      • Granite
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        511 months ago

        There is no more stock though. It’s a private company.

        • @[email protected]
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          511 months ago

          There are still valuations even if they don’t sell publicly, and those still affect how much they can get in credit, investment, and advertising