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After reading the Elon biography, can’t unsee how many of these boil down to “who came up with this requirement?”and “delete”.

After reading the Elon biography, can’t unsee how many of these boil down to “who came up with this requirement?”and “delete”. 

https://x.com/XEng/status/1717754398410240018?s=20

It's all impressive, but you still have to make a product that people want to use. Most independent sources say X has lost ~10% of its DAU QoQ. D1, D7, D30 retention all down. If engineering efficiency is their north star, then kudos; but business metrics are suffering.

Blockchain, spatial computing, and 3D recreations PM @ NBA. History and philosophy of technology @ CUNY-GC. 

There are too many variables to be able to attribute this shift in metrics to a specific thing such as product quality, feed quality, performance, Elon's popularity, bot crackdown, etc. etc.

Also a metric trending downward for a while doesn't mean that it can't shift back up.

The open web is dead, long live the open web. ⌐◨-◨

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So many fundamental changes, including ones to save the business and a polarizing figure at the helm is bound to lead to this decrease in users at least in the short term. 

Think the media is going to over blow this. 

Personally, the product ux has degraded for me, but it can definitely become better.