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

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VincentHanna said:
You said he doesn't believe in PR.

He believes in it, by announcing everything himself.

What he doesn't necessarily believe in, is having a department to handle those things for him.

I'm sure Tesla got rid of theirs a few years ago as well.
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Vincent try to read more carefully please, what do you think is being referred to here? I'm literally referring to the teams he's getting rid of in reply to someone talking about sacking half the staff:
dowie said:
It's not like they're all equal, he's getting rid of a lot of the more periphery stuff as part of this (though still slimming down the rest too) - he doesn't believe in PR, he's not exactly going to prioritize the accessibility team or the team responsible for the trending topics and explore tab etc.. so they've been axed.
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Public relations - Wikipedia

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Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception. Public relations and publicity differ in that PR is controlled internally, whereas publicity is not controlled and contributed by external parties.
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I know he got rid of Tesla's PR a while back, thus the comment on him ditching twitter's PR team too because he doesn't believe in it, his view is that PR exists to manipulate public opinion:

electrek.co

Elon Musk says no to a new Tesla PR department, doesn't believe 'manipulating public opinion'

Elon Musk rejected the idea of Tesla going back to having a PR department, and his reasoning behind it is...
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Elon Musk rejected the idea of Tesla going back to having a PR department, and his reasoning behind it is quite revealing: He doesn’t believe in “manipulating public opinion.”
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IF we want to talk in general terms though, not just specifically to him ditching the team then I think it would be more accurate to say that what he does love is publicity... as people have seen (and perhaps complained about) he's rather unfiltered on the time line, he's literally been iterating product changes out loud which seems to have caused plenty of discussions.
 
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public opinion is irrelevant to Elon, only thing that matters is senators opinions and government subsidies lol



He's probably already wondering how he can turn twitter into a public service the state has to pay for
 
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arknor said:
public opinion is irrelevant to Elon, only thing that matters is senators opinions and government subsidies lol



He's probably already wondering how he can turn twitter into a public service the state has to pay for
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That is a bit of an Achilles heel though in this case as, unlike his other businesses where he's just looking at driving innovation and creating great products, he needs to be mindful of advertisers - that is where there is plenty of risk.
 
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dowie said:
Vincent try to read more carefully please, what do you think is being referred to here? I'm literally referring to the teams he's getting rid of in reply to someone talking about sacking half the staff:
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? he knew and referred to the absence/dismissal of the team, because Musk wants to do it himself.
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Elon impacts - The upcoming Internet harms law/legislation does, like car design legislation impacts tesla. ... the $8 can help finance upcoming moderation needs
 
TBF he does believe in it, he just doesn't believe in having a staff do it. He does it himself. I'm fairly sure Tesla still doesn't spend any money on advertising, he does it all and handles the PR. Sending Starlink into Ukraine was a genius move for both PR and advertising, hardly anyone had heard of Starlink before he did that, now everyone who watches the news has likely heard of it. Threatening to turn it off was a terrible bit of PR and he had to backtrack. He's likely regretting sacking all the PR with the kicking Twitter is taking right now and advertisers have walked away.
 
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dowie said:
That is a bit of an Achilles heel though in this case as, unlike his other businesses where he's just looking at driving innovation and creating great products, he needs to be mindful of advertisers - that is where there is plenty of risk.
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He could claim American influence is greatly reduced if China ends up with the platform that takes twitters place.

now hand me the billions
 
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Colonel_Klinck said:
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Needing iOS to subscribe didn't mean spit for verification

Got $8? have a badge.

Whatever assumptions there were in piggybacking on another companys systems for "verification" they should have actually bothered to talk to said company about it.

Or done the verification themselves instead of this BS.

I'm waiting for them to crawl back to doing their own verification again, crawl back to badges for notable verified persons and implement their "premium account" in a less moronic fashion.
 
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Colonel_Klinck said:
TBF he does believe in it, he just doesn't believe in having a staff do it. He does it himself. I'm fairly sure Tesla still doesn't spend any money on advertising, he does it all and handles the PR. Sending Starlink into Ukraine was a genius move for both PR and advertising, hardly anyone had heard of Starlink before he did that, now everyone who watches the news has likely heard of it. Threatening to turn it off was a terrible bit of PR and he had to backtrack. He's likely regretting sacking all the PR with the kicking Twitter is taking right now and advertisers have walked away.
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I mean, it's hardly 4D chess, but he probably was never going to turn it off and was simply saying it to make a point about his company not receiving funding to do the work
 
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Get humans to Mars lul. You are so far up it must be nearly daylight.



Oh dear.
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You must be quite difficult to impress if you don't think what he's actually accomplished is worth any sort of respect or admiration. What does actually impress you? Who do you look at and think "wow they've really gone above and beyond"?
 
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