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The site was seriously broken for a long time. And that attracted all kinds of bots, and 'List of 10 Machiavellian things to learn' kind of bots, not to forgot all sorts of other evil bots.

For a long time, the search and trending section was broken. Many times you could not hear anything in a space, empty tweets would show up, tweets would come up with Unix timestamp and therefore sorting was broken. Site would be down a lot of times. Even till date you don't see an ad for a thing you want to buy.

Perhaps the biggest damage is there seems to a significant increase in toxicity platform wide.

>>They have released ton's more features including AI - grok

Compared to most AI products out there, you can't even try their AI product and see if you want to buy subscription.

>>In tech companies, it's not just about headcount, one needs a strong leader to drive company towards greater success like Elon.

Note, code and features are not all there is to a business. Its only natural for us developers to assume the world revolves around us. The reality is actually very different. You need lots of other people to keep a company running.

At this rate Mr Musk won't see return on his investments anytime soon.



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