Twitter was ‘absurdly’ overstaffed: Elon Musk

so the headline here so far is that before Elon Musk bought it Twitter wasn't so much a social media site as a Honey Trap operated by global intelligence agencies including our own one of the very first things Elon Musk did was fire all the spies who worked at Twitter then he fired a lot of other people too including the entire PR department the HR department and a lot of other useless baggage who weren't helping the company do anything worth doing and what happened next we asked him [Music] met a shrinking pie obviously for most of the traditional media companies and made them more desperate to get clicks to get to get you know get attention um and he has made them when you know when they were when they were in a sort of desperate State they will then tend to really push uh headlines that get the most clicks whether those headlines are accurate or not so it's resulted in my view I think probably I think most people would agree a less truthful less accurate news so uh because they just got to get a rise out of people and I think it's also increased the negativity of the news because uh I think we humans instinctually uh respond more to that I think we have an instinctual negative bias which which kind of makes sense in that like uh if um like let's say you're uh like it's more important to remember where we where was the lion or where was the tribe that wants to kill my tribe then where is the bush with berries yes like one's like a permanent negative outcome and the other is like well I might go hungry so meaning that there's an asymmetry in um sort of involved asymmetry in negative versus positive stuff um and and also historically the negative stuff would have been quite proximate like it would have been near represented a real danger to you as a person um if you heard negative news you because historically you know like a few hundred years ago we're not hearing about what negative things are happening on the other side of the world or on the other side of the country we're only we're hearing about negative things in our village um things that could actually have a a bad effect on you whereas now we're hearing about we mean the news very often seems to attempt to uh answer the question what is the worst thing that happened on Earth today any wonder why you said after reading that you know do you read any Legacy Media Outlets I mean I really get most of my news from Twitter at this point it is the number one music news source I think uh only in the world at this point what percentage of your staff did you fire at Twitter one of the great business stories of the year I think we're about we're about uh 20 of the original size so 80 left uh yes so I mean a lot of people voluntarily sure sure but but it's 80 are gone from the day that's correct yes so how do you run the company with only 20 of the staff uh turns out uh you don't need uh well that many people to run Twitter but 80 that's a lot um yes uh over I mean if you're not trying to run some sort of uh glorified activist organization uh with with it and you don't care that much about censorship then you can really let go of a lot of people turns out how many others without naming names but how many I had dinner with somebody who runs a big company recently said I'm really inspired by Elon and I said you the Free Speech stuff he goes no the firing the staff stuff um how many how many other CEOs have come to you um to talk about this I I spent a lot of time at work uh so it's not like I'm meeting with lots of people this is what I what actions I've taken um and um but I think we just had a situation at Twitter where it was absurdly overstaffed you know so it wasn't uh you know like you could say like what does it really take to operate Twitter um you know most of what we're talking about here is a group text service at scale um like how many people are really needed for that you know um and if you look at the you say like uh what has been the product development uh over time with Twitter and you're like so like you know years versus product improvements and it's like a pretty flat line so what are they doing you know it took a year to add an edit button that doesn't work most of the time I mean this is I feel like if it was a comedy situation here you know um you're not making cars you know uh it was very difficult to make cars um or get Rockets to orbit so um you know the real question is like how did it get so absurdly overstaffed this is insane um so anyway that's and it's clearly working um in fact I think it's working better than ever it's about we've increased the uh responsiveness of the system by in some cases over 80 percent we're trying to make make sure the most trusted place on the internet the least untrustworthy place on the internet I don't think anyone should trust the internet but maybe we can make Twitter the least untrustworthy like I said try to get uh the truth to the people um as as best we can when Elon Musk took over Twitter the company had something called a human rights team there was no measurable increase in human rights around the world in fact Twitter was doing its best to crush human rights starting with the most basic which is the right to say what you really think Elon Musk in his spare time runs the world's biggest rocket company couldn't resist asking him if he ever sees anything out there in space that's not human so we did subscribe to the Fox News YouTube channel to catch our nightly opens stories that are changing the world and changing your life from Tucker Carlson tonight

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Length: 6min 17sec (377 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 18 2023