In other use, a bunch more Twitter employees could soon be ex-employees…
Ever since Meta launched its competitor to Twitter last week, Elon Musk has been attempting to tear it down, denouncing Threads’ approach to content moderation, threatening to sue for the supposed theft of “trade secrets,” and even challenging Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to a penis-measuring competition.
Some of his employees, however, are thoroughly enjoying the new app.
“I’m going to get fired for this, but I work at Twitter right now and have never really used it. Threads is just better,” a current staffer wrote on Threads last week. “Here’s to a new world!”
“[Not gonna lie] the signup flow was really nice,” another Twitter employee posted, referring to the process by which users register for an account.
The Daily Beast took a random sample of 133 current Twitter employees, identified by their LinkedIn accounts, and found that 31 of them—nearly a quarter—appeared to already be on Threads. Musk said in April that Twitter employed roughly 1,500 people, suggesting that hundreds of its workers may be using its rival.
Yeah, “random samples” like this always get blown up to produce a spurious number, and I suspect this “hundreds” is really as bullshit as all these other reports you see in media about how 64% of Inner West residents believe in land rights for gay whales, that sort of thing. Still, I suspect that those 31 Twitter staff are indeed not the only ones, and Oolong will use this information to find out who they all are and sack the lot of them, cos if there’s one thing Twitter really needs it’s even less people working there…
