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The buzz out of the Code Conference this week is, naturally, all about the disastrous performance of X / Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino, who closed out the two-day affair in spectacular fashion. Vox’s Peter Kafka, who has been going to the conference since it started in 2008, called it “the weirdest session I’ve ever seen.” If I had to sum up the vibe as everyone trickled off to dinner afterward, it would be stunned disbelief. As for Yaccarino, she immediately fled the premises with her six-person security detail.

  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    [2 mins 15 sec] Yaccarino: “I work at X, he worked at Twitter, X is a new company.”
    …
    [3 mins 16 sec] Yaccarino: “The team at Twitter is fantastic”

    At least she lasted 1 whole minute before that embarassing contradiction. I can’t do another 38 minutes of watching that mess though, too painful right from the start.