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These were data engineers at Twitter not janitors. They were likely making 150k+ easily and got a severance package. If they are good at their job they can go find another job in about 5 hours.

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But can they find a job with a 9-hour work week and free latte's?

Musk sent his engineers in yesterday and by noon all twitter employees were locked out from accessing code.

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RedHand said:

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For refence these guys were all getting 2k+ likes per tweet. I haven't checked any of this but the point is that Elon has basically neutered the bias overnight.

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There is no " turn off the bots" button that Elon pressed when he walked in to Twitter hq...

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Odds are the 'bot' stuff is all a sub-program or set of code.

Wouldn't be that hard to turn off, actually.

Or maybe algos that give certain blue checkmarked voices of the party likes automatically when they post?

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It's all data driven content so, any process could conceivably access the DB and alter the data. Just have to identify those processes and shut them down. Probably not that difficult for someone who knows what they're doing.

I can almost guarantee virtually 100% of these employees thought me and my friends and fam should be fired (or worse) for making our own medical decisions. Too bad, so sad!

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Some of these people were just doing their jobs, seems extreme to fire an entire engineering team. Maybe there's culture rot and that was the simplest way to fix it.

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No way I'd work for libtards that were social engineering for a far left anti American agenda.

They deserved to get canned. They knew exactly what they were doing.

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texagbeliever said:

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These were data engineers at Twitter not janitors. They were likely making 150k+ easily and got a severance package. If they are good at their job they can go find another job in about 5 hours.

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But can they find a job with a 9-hour work week and free latte's?

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I get the joke, but I'd bet the data engineers worked more than 40 hours a week. Now the HR and marketing staff I'd agree.

I deleted my Twitter account a long time ago. Created a new one today.

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johnnyblaze36 said:

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CNBC reporting that Twitter's entire data engineering team was fired today >>> https://t.co/rFjAZotlH4

— Anthony DeRosa (@Anthony) October 28, 2022

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Smart.

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They'll be fine, Germany is paying top dollar for coal miners. And there is active mine in Svalsbard that pays well i hear.

I like Matt Walsh's take:

Twitter employees have happily censored, deplatformed, and taken livelihoods away from people who did absolutely nothing wrong. I'm glad they're getting fired now. They get no sympathy from me. You all deserve this. Every bit of it. You've had it coming. Now it's here.

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) October 28, 2022

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For refence these guys were all getting 2k+ likes per tweet. I haven't checked any of this but the point is that Elon has basically neutered the bias overnight.

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go back and check prior to the original announcement in April 2022. Conservatives started getting a boat load more followers and leftists likes started plummeting then.

Brookland Dad defiant has over a million followers and is now getting likes in the hundreds? He has received 100k plus likes on tweets before. Even if he gets 1000 likes now, that is just 0.1% of followers liking him, while he is getting "engagement" well beyond his million followers. Would love to see a graph of his "followers" and "daily likes" from January 2022 through 2023. It is going to be glorious!

People will just retreat more into their corner now, and it will become apparent that all this craziness is coming from under 5% of the population. There is just another 25% of the population that goes along with it to avoid being cancelled.

please go scorched earth Elon.

Every time Twitter lets the clamps off, my follower count spikes -- today, by over 40,000 in just a few hours. That's not a coincidence.

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 28, 2022

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Well this turned out to be fake news. I should have known better when the guy holding the box told the reporter he was going home to tell his husband AND his wife.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/28/pranksters-posing-as-laid-off-twitter-employees-trick-media-outlets/

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A pair of pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees tricked multiple media outlets Friday as the public anxiously awaited news on whether Elon Musk had begun axing staffers.

CNBC's Deirdre Bosa interviewed two people who identified themselves as Twitter employees and were seen near the company's San Francisco headquarters carrying cardboard boxes.

Skepticism immediately emerged on social media. One of the pranksters said his name was "Rahul Ligma" a reference to a popular internet meme and held a copy of Michelle Obama's book "Becoming" aloft while speaking to reporters. The other said his name was "Daniel Johnson."

CNBC, Bloomberg, the Daily Mail and NBC were among the outlets that reported layoffs were underway after the duo spoke to the media.

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Some guys just absolutely trolled local media outside Twitter's headquarters pretending to be a fired software engineer:

"I have to go touch base with my husband and wife." pic.twitter.com/B84ScRUqDk

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 28, 2022

Garrelli 5000 said:

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The question is how pervasive through the code and configuration are the bot algos. Pending the setup Twitter could trash the code to remove the bias before his engineers could review. How deep does their source code archive go?

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It's on Git. Probably 12-14 years

Hardest I've laughed in awhile.

Ligma Johnson had it coming 🍆 💦 pic.twitter.com/CgjrOV5eM2

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022

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Go Elon

Twitter's operation to prop up left-wing 'influencers' is starting to get exposed. 👀 pic.twitter.com/zO7MsvHVrC

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 28, 2022

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Oh sh*t, they got Biden too pic.twitter.com/De2GskFZmP

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 28, 2022

After five years of dedicated service at @twitter , I was personally fired by @elonmusk today at 10:15 am Pacific. No severance, no insurance nothing.#ELONMUSK #TwitterTakeover

— Rahul Ligma (@rahulLlgma) October 28, 2022

The first shot in the war for #freespeech began today with my firing by @elonmusk ! Let’s assemble #TwitterTakeover

— Rahul Ligma (@rahulLlgma) October 28, 2022

LOL

Looks like the reach of my account is being severely limited

— Rahul Ligma (@rahulLlgma) October 28, 2022

EDIT to add the final tweet

Under my predecessor, the country lost over 180,000 manufacturing jobs.

On my watch, we’ve created 700,000 manufacturing jobs – adding manufacturing jobs at the fastest rate in nearly 40 years. pic.twitter.com/0DsmZHY430

— President Biden (@POTUS) October 28, 2022

It's true

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For the uninitiated -- we're looking at you, Deirde -- Ligma sets up a joke for "Ligma Balls." Lick. My. Balls. In addition to CNBC, Bloomberg ran headlines Friday saying laid off Twitter employees were leaving corporate with boxes in hand.

Source TMZ

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Britney Spears was also name-dropped ... the pranksters claimed they were worried about the future of democracy and "celebrity conservatorship" with Elon owning Twitter. They also told reporters they drove Tesla cars and didn't know if they would be able to make any more payments.

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Source TMZ

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nvm

All those poor cats!

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Zarathustra said:

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johnnyblaze36 said:

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Smart.

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They'll be fine, Germany is paying top dollar for coal miners. And there is active mine in Svalsbard that pays well i hear.

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learn to coal mine!

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captkirk said:

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Go Elon

Twitter's operation to prop up left-wing 'influencers' is starting to get exposed. 👀 pic.twitter.com/zO7MsvHVrC

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 28, 2022

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Oh sh*t, they got Biden too pic.twitter.com/De2GskFZmP

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 28, 2022

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Imagine if he started donating to the campaigns for candidates for Secretaries of State. Perhaps Elon would like to buy Dominion Voting.

Explain the red circles

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Maroon Dawn said:

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And he's fired the CEO, CFO and CLA

the purge has begun and it's glorious

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Its what a first hours of a DeSantis presidency should look like.

Or a GOP Hill if they have the clout.

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Or the stones to do it.

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Explain the red circles

2022, the Year Jimbo kicks the door down

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The door into the SEC's NCAAF's cellar?

Red circles are showing lower than usual numbers of likes for posts of left-leaning accounts. Hundreds of likes instead of the thousands they usually get, some folks are claiming it's evidence that Musk is "fixing" Twitter's liberal bias.

#PelosiGayLover is trending on Twitter. They'd have suppressed this before and kept it from showing up on the trending list. Leftists are losing their minds over this on Twitter. Heaven forbid the playing field be remotely even.

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Go Elon

Twitter's operation to prop up left-wing 'influencers' is starting to get exposed. 👀 pic.twitter.com/zO7MsvHVrC

— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 28, 2022

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Excellent thread that goes into this a bit.

Twitter has tried to make itself unsellable, but Musk is calling their bluff. If you have less than 44 billion they'll tell you to take a hike, and if you have more than 44 billion they'll put you under federal investigation. Let's talk about why: 🧵 pic.twitter.com/3dH0Gibc6b

— Samuel Johnson (@Samuel_Reads) October 19, 2022

Now do 2020 election votes!

Eso si, Que es said:

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RedHand said:

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For refence these guys were all getting 2k+ likes per tweet. I haven't checked any of this but the point is that Elon has basically neutered the bias overnight.

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go back and check prior to the original announcement in April 2022. Conservatives started getting a boat load more followers and leftists likes started plummeting then.

Brookland Dad defiant has over a million followers and is now getting likes in the hundreds? He has received 100k plus likes on tweets before. Even if he gets 1000 likes now, that is just 0.1% of followers liking him, while he is getting "engagement" well beyond his million followers. Would love to see a graph of his "followers" and "daily likes" from January 2022 through 2023. It is going to be glorious!

People will just retreat more into their corner now, and it will become apparent that all this craziness is coming from under 5% of the population. There is just another 25% of the population that goes along with it to avoid being cancelled.

please go scorched earth Elon.

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At some point not too long ago, it was theorized that the total number of users actively posting content was super small after you factored out the ads and bots. From what I recall, even looking at the gross total of users on there it's pretty small because most people just follow others and don't post much so you had a small number of actual users + bots driving the narrative.

Your 5% number is probably not far off.

Thanks for that info. Its why I don't understand those that claim Twitter is some massively important means of communication that society can't function without and people will never be heard if they can't be on Twitter.

When you really look at the numbers, its not used by that many people. I'd guess even of those that do use it, its for entertainment more than anything else.

On the subject of the OP, looking at Joy Reid's tweet shown, it now has over 500 likes. Which is less than half of what she appeared to previously average. That's a drastic reduction.

A lot of the bots have blue or pink or purple hair, and or a humanities degree.