# Why quit Twitter? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 18, 2022, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148 "2022-11-18T15:35:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/41 "2022-11-19T14:24:06Z")
I once worked for a company that banned Dilbert cartoons after someone posted on in a bathroom stall making fun of a recent management decision. The red stapler became a really popular desk accessory shortly thereafter. I don’t think management knew how close they were to the whole placed burning to the ground. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/42 "2022-11-19T14:47:04Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Who goes back to review a tweet from three or six or twelve months ago? People who need to find out if a celebrity made an off-color joke in 2015 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/43 "2022-11-19T14:54:38Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > > [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > > > Who goes back to review a tweet from three or six or twelve months ago? ⁢ > > People who need to find out if a celebrity made an off-color joke in 2015 ⁢ And, well, the news organizations, who use Twitter as a source quite often. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/44 "2022-11-19T18:18:46Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > I once worked for a company that banned Dilbert cartoons after someone posted on in a bathroom stall making fun of a recent management decision. I did too. All cartoons had to come off the cubical walls. Idiotic. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/45 "2022-11-19T19:52:27Z")
Maybe you folks could have taken up a collection to buy enough red swingline staplers to fill the boss’s office to the ceiling. Would have been epic. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/46 "2022-11-19T20:14:08Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > As for why to leave, because working for a company that is swirling the drain—or in this case, heading straight down without circumvolution—is an exhausting, demoralizing, and self-destructive experience, notwithstanding that locking remaining employees out of—or in some cases, inside—Twitter facilities speaks to a paranoia so profound that the next thing Musk is likely to do is start demanding fecal samples and signed pledges to the undying loyalty of Our Lord and Undying Protector Elon Musk, Guardian of the Known Universe and King Twit of all of His Domains, May He Live Forever In A Neurolink Download Box. The Times today had an article giving some of the details. > **[Elon Musk’s Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave (Published...](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/technology/elon-musk-twitter-workers-quit.html)** > > Mr. Musk sent emails on Friday asking to learn about Twitter’s underlying technology as key infrastructure teams have been decimated. The group responsible for their system architecture was 100 people. It is down to 4. Other groups are seeing similar losses. It looks like 1/3 of the remaining employees resigned. Elon appeared to be calling people to come in and tell him about the Twitter software stack. Which he maybe should have understood before laying off all the people responsible for it. I’m unaware of what Elon is promising people to work hardcore. I heard about options, maybe. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/47 "2022-11-19T21:04:25Z")
Rough numbers indicate that Twitter is down to 2,000 employees or less now. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/48 "2022-11-19T21:17:57Z")
Expenses slashed, payroll minimized! It’s all profit herein, guys! Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/49 "2022-11-19T21:20:05Z")
Profit all the way down! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/50 "2022-11-19T21:22:17Z")
Something’s trickling down, but it ain’t economolics. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/51 "2022-11-19T21:36:50Z")
With 2000 employees left, pretty soon they’ll be able to slash their power bills, their network bandwidth bills, and assuming much of it is cloud-hosted on somebody else’s cloud, their cloud bills. As in “Somebody slap the big red button and let it go dark.” ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/52 "2022-11-19T22:27:14Z")
So, is it time to create a death pool for twitter? Everyone throw in their guess as to what day it will go dark for good? If so, I’m taking December 7th 2022, at 3:00 PM. (But maybe I’m just optimistic that it’ll last that long) ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/53 "2022-11-19T23:49:45Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > With 2000 employees left, pretty soon they’ll be able to slash their power bills, their network bandwidth bills, and assuming much of it is cloud-hosted on somebody else’s cloud, their cloud bills. He is already talking about closing their SF data center. Every new revelation confirms that he understands nothing about tech, let alone social media. > [@k9bfriender](#): > > I’m taking December 7th 2022, at 3:00 PM. Pearl Harbor Day. I like the symbolism. I think it will die a lingering, miserable death. I’ll take August 19, 2023, 12 am Pacific Time. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/54 "2022-11-20T00:22:51Z")
I think it’s going out with a whimper, not a bang. It’ll keep moving along, possibly limping at times, keep running through bankruptcy and then it depends on who picks up the pieces. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/55 "2022-11-20T01:09:36Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Like Steve Miller sings, Take The Money And Fly Like An Eagle Right Into The Future, OK, now THIS is funny. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/56 "2022-11-21T17:40:31Z")
> [@naita](#): > > I think it’s going out with a whimper, not a bang. It’ll keep moving along, possibly limping at times, keep running through bankruptcy and then it depends on who picks up the pieces. God? Crow here! If you’d be so kind arrange it so that Trump buys Twitter . . . I just want to see the look on Musk’s face when he gets a check that can be cashed in ‘two weeks’! ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/57 "2022-11-21T22:15:12Z")
> [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Rough numbers indicate that Twitter is down to 2,000 employees or less now. From how many? (Seriously - I have no idea.) j ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/58 "2022-11-21T22:17:21Z")
7,500 is what I keep reading. Cite: > **[With over 7,500 employees, Twitter is expected to see large layoffs in coming...](https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/11/04/how-many-employees-does-twitter-have/)** > > Here's a look at how many employees Twitter has as several people are said to be losing their jobs in the coming days. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/59 "2022-11-21T22:18:23Z")
That’s impressive. j ETA - thanks for the link. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148/60 "2022-11-21T22:29:04Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > I agree with the thread drift here - life is too short for a seriously toxic work environment, like when the boss comes around to tell you “I’m gonna have to ask you to come in Saturday, and Sunday, too. Mmkay.” I would be among those taking the severance. I agree, but there’s not always an obvious exit from a situation like that; some people hang on in there because they fear the potential adverse outcomes of just quitting - eg: what if you can’t find another job in time; what if you can’t make the mortgage payments; what if you lose the house? Not everyone is equally risk averse and so I suppose in addition to the people who have just up-and-quit from Twitter, there are going to be further people very intensively seeking alternative employment, and likely to quit in the coming weeks and months. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-quit-twitter/975148.md?page=4)