Twitter laying off 9% of global work force

Smug IT workers during the recession gloating in their cushy jobs.

A Bitter Mars Bar would be more appropriate.

Twitters been flagging for a long time. Huge overheads and very poor profits (if any) for a company valued in the billions.

Over time it's been having difficulty gaining new users as it's largely become a platform for loud people to be loud and angry at eachother and marketing companies to gather data on you.

Unlike facebook, there's no personal aspect to twitter, the "social" aspect involves getting into arguments and the nature of what it does has remained largely unchanged.

Other platforms have diversified not only the nature of the platform, but also the nature of the business; facebook is building enormous datacentres and will likely enter the cloud computing market against AWS.

Twitter hasn't, and now it's a dead duck (pun intended).

Twitter was banking on being taken over. The last serious suitor was Salesforce and they said around two weeks ago that they weren't interested. Afaik Twitter has never made money so it was inevitable that they would downsize. Even if they were taken over there would have been a bloodbath.

If technical staff are let go they will find a job almost immediately. The "soft skills" people may have a tougher struggle. Whatever happens I wish them good luck, it's not a nice trait to revel in anothers misfortune OP :rolleyes:

I thought a Mars bar helped you to work, not just rest and play?