To say he's making it up as he goes along isn't just a heckle, it's a description.
The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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To say he's making it up as he goes along isn't just a heckle, it's a description.
Soldato
Brainstorming in public is fine when you tell everyone your brainstorming and not to think everything you say has been thought out
Elon is doing it just like Trump, its not a bad strategy as such, but when your a public figure its not a wise strategy.
I mean stuff like when Trump talked about injecting stuff that would kill you. Elon is doing his version now.
Soldato
I hadn't thought of it like that but you're right it is very similar
Soldato
Elon owns twitter it is his exclusive plaything. A bit more than being a president of the USA in my opinion. There is no constitution to say he can't crash it in the guise of improving the company.
Caporegime
Elon Musk is clearly very good at what he does in some respects but hes a nutter. He loves the public eye and loves the cult that has built up around him.
I often wonder what Steve Jobs would have been like now if he was still alive. Would he have stayed in the background or been a bit of a Musk-esque fame whore.
Hes like a lot of arrogant people who think that everyone around them isn't operating on their level and are just making stupid decisions for the sake of it rather than for good reason that they might just not understand because they are on the outside looking in.
I often wonder what Steve Jobs would have been like now if he was still alive. Would he have stayed in the background or been a bit of a Musk-esque fame whore.
Hes like a lot of arrogant people who think that everyone around them isn't operating on their level and are just making stupid decisions for the sake of it rather than for good reason that they might just not understand because they are on the outside looking in.
Permabanned
If I don't like a business owner or business model enough, be it a corner shop to a national, I just don't use it and balance any inconvenience against taking my moral stance.
Impotently railing against it seems a bit of a waste of time when there's no other way of directly influencing the operation.
Impotently railing against it seems a bit of a waste of time when there's no other way of directly influencing the operation.
Soldato
Why do you think he bought it for 44 billion
Because of the zero value it has in influencing and being a major part of the conversation?
Come on, use your head. He paid 44 billion for twitter, not because it's the most smartest tech in the world, given how little it actually does, he's over paid in that case as he could pay a company 1 million and get the same result.
So why do you think he's paid 44 billion? I'm sure you can figure it out
well, 1million people have already left Twitter In the first week
Musk says Twitter usage is 'at an all-time high,' but a report shows that more than 1 million accounts have been deactivated or suspended since his takeover
Twitter's daily user growth has reportedly hit "all-time highs" amid Elon Musk's takeover drama, the FT said, citing an email sent to advertisers.
Ive certainly seen a few linkedin posts from people saying that have stopped using Twitter, at least until the level of moderation can be confirmed .
That is the general problem for Musk. There are other platforms users and advertisers can move to
Soldato
Not just that, you can move away to nothing. Once you take a break and get out the cycle, you see that maybe you didn't need it in the first place.
This is the main thing. These social media platforms are very replacable. They do nothing special or different that no one else can do. They are only big because of popularity/the bandwagon effect.
Look at MySpace for example.
Twitter is nothing special and could easily be replaced if enough people jump ship.
Man of Honour
Although I appreciate it's certainly a data point, it's not exactly the best given that it's a progressive, virtue signal riddled hellscape.
Caporegime
This isn't really true. There isn't another platform offering what Twitter offers, each platform is different and offers different strengths and weaknesses. While you might theoretically be able to do the same sort of thing on Facebook, say, in practice it just doesn't work well if you try and do the same thing with it.
But this is key, and it works both to drive growth and drive collapse. A major part of what makes Twitter appealing is the people who are on there, if Elon's changes produce the expected degradation in the quality of the platform, a significant number of people will leave. When those people leave the value of the platform to a proportion of the remaining people will drop below their personal thresholds to continue with Twitter and they'll leave, and so on. This can easily snowball into a collapse of the platform and with Twitter already struggling to make money pre-Musk and Musk's incompetence having driven a lot of advertising away that will lead to major losses for the platform. I can see Twitter going from a major platform, regularly cited in News Articles, to a minor interest in a short space of time.
We shall see.
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thats a lot of bots!
Soldato
Humanity can only gain.
He did, both the blue checkmark and the secondary tag already exist they're simply being expanded and improved upon.
What does it offer that someone else couldn't do (other than it's reputation/user base)?
Soldato
I didn't realise Nintendo were Democrat supporters
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Man of Honour
They're still bitter that they didn't get a NES port of Muskarts smash hit, Blastar.
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Soldato
Network effects is the battle.
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