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

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Tony Edwards said:
Imagine being a Musk fan and being surprised and angry at all the coverage.
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I am a massive SpaceX fan. I love what Musk has done there but SpaceX isn't Twitter. He's his own worse enemy on his handling of this. This new verified accounts roll out has been a laughable yet fully predicted (by posters on here as well) disaster. So many major advertisers getting hit by imposter accounts. The only way he could stop it was by shutting down Twitter Blue. Its like he doesn't actually understand Twitter users at all.
 
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Colonel_Klinck said:
I am a massive SpaceX fan. I love what Musk has done there but SpaceX isn't Twitter. He's his own worse enemy on his handling of this. This new verified accounts roll out has been a laughable yet fully predicted disaster. So many major advertisers getting hit by imposter accounts. The only way he could stop it was by shutting down Twitter Blue. Its like he doesn't actually understand Twitter users at all.
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And I totally get A/B testing things, and failing fast - but what a dumb idea to begin with.
 
Tony Edwards said:
Imagine being a Musk fan and being surprised and angry at all the coverage.
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I'm not sure why you think I'm a musk fan, or angry, Tony.

I like Tesla and SpaceX. I thought he was a major dick for saying that about the diver in Thailand and I never have and never will use twitter.

But hey ho, believe what you want.
 
GordyR said:
Hey… It’s GD after all.

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On a more serious note, in my view this is showing all the signs of someone who only has sycophantic “yes” men around him, stroking his ego, nodding like lap dogs to every thought he has.

I suspect that no one in his inner circle is prepared to criticise him and he appears to have removed most of the expertise who probably would have.
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I read an article from an x space-x employee who said the same thing. Musk had bug visions and ignored claims that doing X was impossible, which can be good to ignore foregone conclusions, but he takes it so extreme he thinks nothing is impossible and everything he thinks of has value. Everyone he works with closely ends up falling in to 2 groups: they either argue and breakdown his visions with facts and logic but end up in endless angry arguments at 2am on a Friday night, months on end until they quit or are fired, or they are just YES men that agree to everything the Messiah says.

Musk, like Trump and Putin is surrounded by Yes men, and took a bunch of Yes men to twitter
 
D.P. said:
I read an article from an x space-x employee who said the same thing. Musk had bug visions and ignored claims that doing X was impossible, which can be good to ignore foregone conclusions, but he takes it so extreme he thinks nothing is impossible and everything he thinks of has value. Everyone he works with closely ends up falling in to 2 groups: they either argue and breakdown his visions with facts and logic but end up in endless angry arguments at 2am on a Friday night, months on end until they quit or are fired, or they are just YES men that agree to everything the Messiah says.

Musk, like Trump and Putin is surrounded by Yes men, and took a bunch of Yes men to twitter
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Every person with power is surrounded by yes men.

But the fact that you deemed it fit to include Putin and Trump says a lot about the hysteria that is happening over Musk.

Musk derangement syndrome really is a thing then.

Wow
 
Housey said:
He is no different from many many CEO’s in large tech and related sectors. On the scale with super strong reality distortion.
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no, quite the opposite.

Most CEOs get to be where they are by carefully balancing their vision/pushing boundaries/not taking impossible as an answer/etc., with thrusting the advice of their senior advisors and confidents to find that right balance.

Musk seemingly ignores all advice and completely lacks any fundamental understanding of how most companies succeed. His successes have come mostly by investing massive amounts of money to engine a solution. And even there people seem to brush off his failures (there are no autonomous Teslas your can buy, Boring company has only produced an underground parking lot) .


Good CEOs have convinced nay-saying advisors with evidence and reasoning, Musk seems to resort to shouting matches and to force submission of dissenting voices.

we see this with Twitter where anyone can see his ideas would instantly fail yet some how they are pushed out there. He just doesn't seem to care about failing. Which is a common trait with entrepreneurs.
 
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