The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down

Hotwired · 11 Nov 2022 at 06:21

Werewolf said:
From what I can tell some of those accounts imitating the likes of the pharma company, nintendo etc are still up 12+ hours later, because it seems no one at twitter is looking for them

I'm just guessing here but seeing as Twitter has been transformed into an autocracy revolving around Elons balls...

...that if those offending tweets instead presented themselves as Elon Musk confirming he paid off that woman and NDA'd her regarding his sexual indecency then the 2 people doing the moderating would be more motivated to erase any existence of it being posted.

Sankari · 11 Nov 2022 at 07:08

Third rule change of the day:

Musk is just throwing everything at the wall and hoping it sticks. Astonishing incompetence.

sigma · 11 Nov 2022 at 07:23

Sankari said:
Third rule change of the day:

Musk is just throwing everything at the wall and hoping it sticks. Astonishing incompetence

But muuuuuh, it's all part of the plaaan.

sigma · 11 Nov 2022 at 07:26

Akshully, there are always teething issues when a new person takes over.

Terminal_Boy · 11 Nov 2022 at 07:27

Sankari said:
Third rule change of the day:

Musk is just throwing everything at the wall and hoping it sticks. Astonishing incompetence.

To be fair to Elon, that was a standard Apple Engineering management technique during my time there.

glenimp617 · 11 Nov 2022 at 07:30

Terminal_Boy said:
To be fair to Elon, that was a standard Apple Engineering management technique during my time there.

It's what all big companies do. Google is the worst for this.

Terminal_Boy · 11 Nov 2022 at 07:36

TheOracle said:
It's what all big companies do. Google is the worst for this.

Old colleague of mine living in San Francisco moved from Apple to Google and back again within 18 months.

Said it was an absolute nightmare to get anything meaningful done due to tiers of seagull management.

unwashed potato! · 11 Nov 2022 at 07:58

dowie said:
he doesn't believe in PR

This I 100 percent disagree with

Sankari · 11 Nov 2022 at 08:23

Terminal_Boy said:
To be fair to Elon, that was a standard Apple Engineering management technique during my time there.

I would believe it!

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Nov 2022 at 08:30

Elons just going to make it up as he goes along. Until it’s successful.

As long as there’s enough money to pay wages.

If not it goes bankrupt.

It’s as simple as that.

glenimp617 · 11 Nov 2022 at 08:42

Terminal_Boy said:
Old colleague of mine living in San Francisco moved from Apple to Google and back again within 18 months.

Said it was an absolute nightmare to get anything meaningful done due to tiers of seagull management.

I can believe it. Meta just let 11,000 employees go. That's ridiculous. Why were they even employed in the first place. I can understand a few, but 11,000?

Yaayuh! · 11 Nov 2022 at 08:45

First post in here as I've only just been interested in this whole Twitter hilarity.

It is pretty funny: https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1590942186551803904?s=20&t=-KQbd4-e1NUPg6XSuJzOdA

Deleted member 77746 · 11 Nov 2022 at 08:57

TheOracle said:
I can believe it. Meta just let 11,000 employees go. That's ridiculous. Why were they even employed in the first place. I can understand a few, but 11,000?

They were all probably doing manual checks on posts.

sigma · 11 Nov 2022 at 09:00

TheOracle said:
I can believe it. Meta just let 11,000 employees go. That's ridiculous. Why were they even employed in the first place. I can understand a few, but 11,000?

Have you seen how much they're spending on the metaverse? 100 billion I think

StriderX · 11 Nov 2022 at 09:07

TheOracle said:
I can believe it. Meta just let 11,000 employees go. That's ridiculous. Why were they even employed in the first place. I can understand a few, but 11,000?

Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/whatever else all require moderation and support services which for 2-3 billion people is going to require a fairly hefty staff.

azazl187 · 11 Nov 2022 at 09:08

Hopefully his plan all along is to just shut the thing down. Twitter is one of the worst inventions ever.

sigma · 11 Nov 2022 at 09:11

StriderX said:
Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp/whatever else all require moderation and support services which for 2-3 billion people is going to require a fairly hefty staff.

Tesla's self driving AI will oversee it.

jpaul · 11 Nov 2022 at 09:30

Sankari said:
Musk is just throwing everything at the wall and hoping it sticks. Astonishing incompetence.

or they have realised there is some loop-hole in the identification process. ?

...
bots -

On Wednesday, KFC Germany sent a message to users of its app with the title “Anniversary of the Reich’s pogrom night,” according to reports in the German news media and screen shots of the promotion that circulated widely on Twitter. The message invited customers to enjoy “tender cheese with crispy chicken.”
KFC Germany quickly followed up with an apology within the app for having sent what it called an “incorrect” and “inappropriate” message. But criticism was swift and merciless.

“How wrong can you get on Kristallnacht @KFCDeutschland,” Dalia Grinfeld, the associate director for European affairs at the Anti-Defamation League, wrote on Twitter. “Shame on you!”
KFC Germany apologized again in a statement to news outlets, saying that its “obviously wrong, insensitive and unacceptable” message about Kristallnacht resulted from an automated push notification that had been sent by accident.
The statement added that the company has a “semi-automated content creation process linked to calendars that include national observances.”

FishFluff · 11 Nov 2022 at 09:36

Transcript of daddy Elon's first all staff call: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23452196/elon-musk-twitter-employee-meeting-q-and-a

Seems like he has a plan, but it's a poorly thought out one. The last thing that the world needs is another TikTok clone, especially not one that is integrated with its own payment ecosystem. This is a scammers wet dream.

Mr Jack · 11 Nov 2022 at 09:57

At this point I'm beginning to wonder whether there's some weird financial way in which it works out better for Musk if he forces Twitter rapidly into bankruptcy.