Musk's new idea
Musk's new idea
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Yeah dude, it's the brand that's the problem, you've figured it out.
After this, everyone will love it.
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Yep, just like all of Facebook's problems went away after they renamed to Meta. Turns out it was all just a bad brand image to begin with! Nothing to do with out of touch billionaires running companies into the ground, just slap a new logo on it.
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Dude needs to stop posting every time he tries a new psychedelic.
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Could "Billionaire X's latest stupid remark" not be considered "technology" news?
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It's not "news" either.
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Please welcome the new "Truth Social 2.0"!
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The content is becoming that, but since it’s Musk, the name will probably be ”8008Z 420”
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No, it'll just be shortened to, "Twit" and the bird logo will be replaced with his face.
Well, that'd be the most appropriate new branding anyway.
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Pravdanet
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If not for Elon I wouldn't have gone to Mastodon and in extension to Lemmy.
So, this is kinda nice. :)
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Really wish this was a PSA-type ad campaign, throw in Reddit -> Lemmy and warn the overlords their days and dollars are numbered.
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This makes you wonder what their real plan is. They have everyone data, they know what people do and their preferences, they act after these not before
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Ideas for the new logo? I think he should go with a black-red motif, with lots of right angles.
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We'll call it the Musk-stika!
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Take this upvote and get out!
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I did na - zi that coming.
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A Phoenix perhaps.
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Lol, spend billions to make a brand. Then overhype it, pay inflated price to acquire said brand and now decide to kill the brand. Master genius!
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Buy high sell low. He must have learned from r/wallstreetbets
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Double burn.
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"Quick, our ad revenue is shrinking, what do we do? Restricting people from seeing tweets and defeating the whole purpose of why they're on the platform didn't work (yet)!"
"I've got it, we get rid of the whole name. From now on companies will say to follow them on X! That won't lose them any viewership at all!"
"But if they're going to mention a new name to people anyway, wouldn't this be the perfect opportunity for them to leave for another platform? All they have to do is say to follow on them Mastodon instead of X"
"Fire them, now."
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8D Bingo!
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The poes law on Musk tweet screenshots is through the roof. I have absolutely no idea if this is real.
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Oh it's real. It's part of Musk's whole stupid "X the everything app" bullshit he has been talking about for years. He is a huge moron. I mean the first sentence in the description of the site for his new company xAI is: "xAI is a new company founded by Elon Musk that sets out to understand the universe" ...he is such a fuckin loser.
Imma make a company called yAI and our goal is going to be to solve all the problems everyone has ever had. Don't ask me how yet because that doesn't matter but the solutions will involve AI and my genius ability to solve all the problems. All banks give me money now please thank you.
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Exactly what I thought
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All the employees left are just doing what he says without any questions. It's becoming malicious compliance and I love it.
"You want our recognizable blue bird to be replaced by an X?... You're the boss!!"
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He fired everyone who tried to question him on the spot, sometimes even by public tweets.
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Stop giving these dumb fucks attention, good lord
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Every single tweet is getting attention. It's so weird. These guys have all kinds of disorders and mental issues but the world loves their every comment. I guess we don't have anything better to do than discuss what they are saying. Sad.
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Allowing Elon Musk to run a company is like electing a kid who thinks the government should give everyone free icecream and make crime ok on Thursdays.
Someone needs to find him a role where he can feel like he's helping without getting in everyone else's way.
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Don't insult the kid like that. They are nothing alike!
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I mean that role was SpaceX. Give them lots of money and get cool rockets. It was going great, and it was great for his image as it's not very political. But I guess he got bored.
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When you see what a massive moron he is it makes you wonder all of the people behind the scenes at spacex that had to deal with his stupid and make the company succeed despite him.
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I think the people working at SpaceX are probably glad Elon has his mind and hands preoccupied with other stupid shit so he'll leave them the hell alone.
Can you imagine if he were as convinced that he needed to have his hands in every little piece of that pie?
It would probably be a complete disaster.
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Old mate certainly has birds flying around in his empty head, that's for sure
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The 52 year old cringe-lord ladies and gentlemen...
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Honestly it's better off that he changes the name. It's not really Twitter anymore.
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This wasn't as good as that other sitcom with Mark Zuckerberg in it. You know, Small Wonder.
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Oh boy, he’s about to do something stupid.
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Yes, it's ... let me check the calendar ... a day, do obviously he's about to do something stupid.
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Then back off when it proves to be a failure... then come back to that very bad idea when nobody's looking, because he really, really wants it.
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Didn't he say a long time ago it's going to become "X"
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Since his acquisition shenanigans started, I felt like that was like a spoiled billionaire kid who didn't get the reverence he thought he deserved from a waiter, then proceeded to buy the restauran chain just to close it.
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Also, “this restaurant serves people who like food I don’t like. I’ll buy it and then they must order what I prefer from now on”
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Musk is so addicted to Twitter (or whatever they end up calling it) that he bought it to ensure he would never be banned. So it's like he bought the restaurant, fired the staff, put shit on the menu, and none of it matters to him because he still gets to sit at his favorite table and no one can tell him to leave.
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It's a bit annoying how for so long people agreed that Twitter was basically a hellhole
This was the sentiment on Reddit because it's an anti-"every other social media" echo chamber, but it definitely wasn't the overall sentiment of Twitter before Musk took over.
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They're saying adieu to the brand alright.
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Ok, dude has gone sailing off the deep end. He’s been tweeting absolute nonsense for the last two hours, including one that says “ I am become meme, Destroyer of shorts” and seemingly asking for submissions for an X logo to replace Twitter and that one will go live tomorrow, and has said he’s drunk. Hooboy
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This is the guy who's known to manipulate stock prices by doing stupid things, no?
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You can polish a turd, but at the end of the day it'll just be shiny shit.
Rebranding won't save the sinking ship that is Twitter. Making it a better platform might actually save it, but Musk is not interested in that, he just wants to make money.
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The way Musk is leading Twitter he's either a moron or trying to destroy the entire service.
Maybe someone called him a slur in a tweet and now he wants to remove the entire platform? Who knows. Though we was mostly the guy calling others pedos..
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He paid $21 billion of his own money for it. That was like 10% of his wealth at the time. It also had a negative effect on Tesla's stock price. He lost a lot of wealth because of this.
I think it is more likely that he did not intend to purchase it and was initially just trolling. But someone filed the legal paperwork and he had to go through with it.
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Why not both?
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why not? totally worked for
facebookmeta.
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And he wants to replace it with "X"
You know the actual thing he was in "charge" of back in the paypal days? How creative.
The platform Twitter wasn't perfect, but the brand is pretty recognizable and it made sense.
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Fucker is OBSESSED with that letter
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Under screenshots of his tweets it must put also one the source. With him and trump i could never understand if it was a fake edited tweet or a real deranged tweet
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Why is Musk obsessed with the letter X anyway? It's like he saw two lines and said, "this is the pinnacle of mankind!"
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Is this the guy you're talking about?
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Is he threatening birds?
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Yeah, the part after “all the birds” that he forgot to type is “because climate change is going to kill them all and my billionaire ass is headed to Mars, fuck you, got mine!”
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Wait they're rebranding??
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It’ll be branded X™ and be an everything app with chat and mobile payments and fun games… you’ll never want to close it ;-)
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It will fail miserably in the west, i can't wait for him to waste even more money
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Is that code word for running it into the ground?
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Doesn’t sound like a hidden coded message to me. Seems quite blatant and direct.
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Twitter is folding into Truth Social. You hear this here, FIRST!!!
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Official merge announcment comming shortly 😉
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Ya. I also heard Coke was going to fold into RC Cola. Except it's racist RC Cola.
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He's worth $240B.
Him spending $44B on Twitter is similar to someone worth $100k spending $18k on a car or a house remodel or something. Its proportionally a decent amount of money, but it's not gonna break him if he totally loses it all.
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Yeah but he took loans from the billionaire equivalent of loansharks to buy it.
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Elizabeth Holmes was "worth" 4.5B, now I'm worth more than her.
That's the life of frauds. One day you're a billionaire, the next day you're in jail with 0.
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But it will humiliate him, and that's the only way to hurt him.
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Its networth, not cash. $240B in stonks can fluctuate very often
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No, the reason it’s not going to break him is that Twitter took on the loan, not himself.
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he has that much in stock, he doesn't have that much cash. he also has to make huge payments on what he borrowed to buy twitter so that may affect cashflow and then value of his other companies..
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With the difference that a car is not the second most popular social network in the world and a big business
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Tweeting will now be called x'ing I guess. Let him ruin his little garbage patch. Meh.
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That sounded a little dark; "Go X about it" "X'ing this because I think this is controversial" "Go create an X of yourself"
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The new brand is alt.conspiracy.black.helicopters. Elon bought that too so he could fold it into “X,” the app for barking lunatics.
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A future Twitter documentary is going to blow Fire Festival’s out of the water.
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Mastodon's gonna get a lot of traffic
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He should have stuck with cars and rockets
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"The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos." - Elon Musk
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It can be Messtodon. Like mastodon but far worse.
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I would pay nothing for it.
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Sold!
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Muskodon
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I don't know nothing about mastadon, but the name is awful. It's like a mix of mastrubate, hardon, mast, and don.
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Or, you know, a type of ancient elephant...
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Assuming birds = users
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So all Twitter users are going to be ex-users very soon.
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I think it might also be accurate if he's talking about actual birds. This extinction event isn't limited to social media platforms.
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Honestly I don't know how relevant he is any more. He seems just like banging his head around and acting nonsense these days.
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Get rid of all the birds? Sure, why not. As soon as we're done with the bees.
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How apt the twitter logo will be a close sign.
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Hey leave NON-TWITTER birds alone you a$$hat! 🤣
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...the birds that make the tweets? So.... the userbase?
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Well we definitely did that when he entered the story. Not that before Twitter was more than a venom riddled shouting platform but all hope was lost when this conman bought it ...
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May I suggest Covfefe as the new name?
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Ah yes, from Twitter to Shitter.
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Is this intentionally vaque to stir curiosity/anticipation? Because I still couldn't care less
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I'm ready for muskonet
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You mean the brain implants? Soon, Musk will be able to beam pretentious statements directly into your thoughts
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Old mate can't stop copping Ls, first being forced to buy Twitter and then trying to force Twitters old legal council to pay back the money they were paid. These weird tweets are just the next step in his sad saga
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I mean, it's worth a try... what else could have possibly caused such a steep downturn in Twitter's fortunes since Musk took over and started enacting his policies?
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Space Jews. Obviously!
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It's not a new idea really. He is talking about his stupid X brand he has been moving Twitter to for a while.
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My favorite parks are car parks Grass is something you smoke Birds are something you shag
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Has he deleted all his tweets since 2022 or is twitter just more broken than usual?
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I can see recent stuff here
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Musk, you dingus! We already know the birds aren’t real!
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This man has the strangest thoughts
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I think he's finally figure out The Thing this time, guys.
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When can we say goodbye to this cuckoo?
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"The bird is freed" ...
9 months later:
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He will call it shitter or something.
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I'm a big fan of all his changes, as I hate Twitter and I want to see its users suffer! :D
You can do it Elon! Jack the price of a blue check up while you're at it! It should be $18... no $80 a month!
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I hope he replaces the bird with a checkmark.
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Whenever I click on an Elon Musk post, it's to guess which household cleaning product he's huffing this week. I'm never disappointed.
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Pretty sure this one is the result of mixing cleaning products...
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Twitter was in big trouble before he bought it. Stop acting like did all of the harm ! he did little of the chaos . They had huge amounts of people getting paid for doing nothing ! Thats why they pushed so hard to sell
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They wanted to sell because he stupidly offered a huge amount in a binding agreement. Musk had already bought a portion of Twitter. He wanted to drive up the price with a fake offer, then find a "problem" so he could sell at the higher price. It was just a pump and dump scheme.
The problem is, it's very hard (and illegal) to do that with someone else's company. Twitter's lawyers wrote the purchase agreement pretty well. They basically forced Musk to either buy the company 100% or go to jail, courtesy of the SEC.
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After he bought twitter shares he only had to disclose that he did so with the SEC that was it. He did that late.
None of this requires making an offer for acquiring twitter. But that's what he did he made an offer to the Twitter board for 44B$, after the Twitter board realised it didn't appear to be a joke they accepted the deal.
At this point nothing was signed, this was the time before confirming the merge deal to do his DUE DILIGENCE which he didn't do, he was in his right to back out at this point.
Instead he signed the contract and only afterwards realised he didn't want to pay 44B$ for twitter after all. This was already too late and nearly impossible to do, the deal was signed...
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I think you might be missing the $44 billion issue here.
Yes, Twitter was in trouble and was having issues staying anywhere this side of the black line. With free flowing capital and threats of ever increasing interest rates, the fire was absoultely in the building, no doubt.
What this donkey called Elon Musk thought would be a great idea is to build a fucking oil refinery, jet fuel distribution hub, and solid rocket fuel production plant beside the building that was on fire. Like when you burn $44B, whatever fucking debt and issues was the matter, all of that ceased being THE PROBLEM. They stayed problems no doubt, but they were no longer THE PROBLEM.
Like if I paid some person $100k/yr, 100 of those people is just $10M, a thousand of them is just $100M. That's just 0.2% of the crater that Elon just created. You could literally have a thousand people getting $100k/yr doing absolutely fuck-it-all, and you could pay them for a century, and that's just 20% of what Elon just did.
Yes, Twitter had problems. None of those problems are within the same galaxy as the problem Elon just made.
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Twitter had a great thing going on. It was not perfect but I never thought it would get absolutely ruined in such a short amount of time
Just like a year ago it was considered an essential part of modern discourse and society. The media was heavily dependent on Twitter. Now, Twitter has lost a lot of influence.
If Elon had simply kept his stupid mouth shut, he wouldn’t have been forced to buy the company, let alone for such a high price. Once purchased, if he had been less of a maniac and just managed Twitter in a boring way that maintained the status quo, then it would still be better off today than it currently is. Everything Elon has done has made the company less valuable and driven away users.
on purpose. by design. with intent.
If Musk just shut his face and kept doing his thing, he would have been a historic figure. Not Edison or Tesla famous, but like an Alexander Bell tier name sure. Especially if his Mars plans panned out. But dude wanted to be Tony Stark and forgot that Stark was charming and likable (in the movies at least) and he… is not.
The problem is Twitter has almost never been profitable. Changing nothing would have ensured that trend. Especially in this economy.
No, once purchased, the problems were already insurmountable. The company was bought on company debt, meaning that it was in deep shit on day 1 of him owning it. It wasn’t profitable before that move, and adding a ton of debt didn’t improve the situation.
All moves Musk did are essentially cost-cutting measures (except for the ones where he's trying to establish it as a social network for Nazis).
He's one of the richest men in the world, you are not even a billionare. Can you really point out that his business is off?
The guy is doing exactly what they want to do, if they are letting the platform fall off like that is because that's what their goal is. They build monopolies.
I dont understand this sentiment. When Jack Dorsey sold twitter he wanted it delisted so someone could make it more publicly owned. He thought Elon could do that and so it was sold. Its essentially the opposite of what Reddit is trying to do.
If Elon comes in amd says "this company needs to change or else it wont survive" i would believe that. People are essentially mad that the company doesnt have investor funding.
Companies change hands. Governments change parties. People seem to forget that, and they want to hand absolute power over to their buddies in companies or in the government, with no regard for those facts.
Remember what happened here, and know that it can happen again at any time.
It’s probably because all the pictures of Elon and this lain would post. I’m sure he’s destroying it out of ego
It's interesting how everyone keeps saying it's ruined while I personally don't notice any difference. If I didn't read posts about it on reddit/lemmy I wouldn't know any changes have been made
Edit: I wonder what the downvotes are for?
Pushing blue checks to the top of every comment thread has amplified the worst voices on the platform.
Can you describe how it's been absolutely ruined?
No way to verify accounts, weird paywalling, pay for views, losing tons of money, mostly just that
Sorting Elon stans to the top of reply chains is a negative change. Hate speech is now only regulated for Liberals. Also, they ruined the entire concept of verification.
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