The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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Of course Twitter usage is at an all time high, Elon and Twitter are front page news everyday, it's the hot topic. He probably closed the office for a headline because it's free PR
I think you will find Musk doesnt do PR.
I think you will find Musk doesnt do PR.
He doesn't, he quite famously sacked the PR team at Tesla and seems to have ditched them at Twitter too... apparently, he's against manipulating public opinion or something. He absolutely loves publicity though
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He'll be trying to find out who's leaking, which is probably 90% of employees who receive an email from him.
He has form for this sort of behaviour.
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There are so many blaggers in corporations stealing a living this is not new news.
Yes there are but this is still quite drastic, if it had been a few months later then it would have been Parag doing the initial layoffs and then Elon coming in at a lower price with less debt and more breathing room. Instead, he's taken on a lot of risk and he's making a big gamble.
The issue at the moment is that it isn't just the teams he was happy to ditch but there seem to have been whole teams that haven't signed up to his new Twitter 2.0, we're all going to work our asses off manifesto and some of them are a bit more important. While it perhaps doesn't matter too much in the immediate future if the accessibility team is no longer around to update alt text descriptions of pictures for blind users on android etc. it does matter if the SRE types have gone and some random hard drives are filling up etc..
Yup true, he's done that before at Tesla too, sent out an e-mail with minor differences for each recipient and the caught the leaker.
Soldato
Please put trump back on. I want to see how Elon deals with when trump causes another jan6th, or someone dies due to a tweet trump sent out, saying "take arms, x person that is mean to me needs to pay with everything they have, 2nd amendment etc"
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Except for the fact that those companies can be pushing the boundaries of various technologies and developing stuff that is used elswhere...
Not everyone wants to work at NASA or SPACEX.
As has been said above, Musk may well have contacts with some very good programmers etc, but even if they know the programming language it'll take time for them to learn the actual code base enough to start fault finding, and more importantly know how it interacts with all the other systems. Someone who is already familiar with the system will likely know where to look for a problem/know what the problem is from what's happening, someone who is new to it will first need to find it.*
There are reasons why in a sensibly run company before you let someone go for anything other than gross misconduct or because they've been arrested for something serious, you'll try and make sure you have someone else (preferably many others) who can do their job.
If the reports are true then some of the truly critical systems at Twitter are now running without any of the humans who understood them left, and that's before you even get into things like the "non technical" side of the business where Musk seems to have got rid of most/all of the people whose job is to ensure that Twitter doesn't fall foul of the laws in countries it operates in.
The fun thing is that the way Musk has done all this means he's running on a timer he basically has no control over anymore as if something starts to go wrong (and it invariably will) and he doesn't have enough/any staff who are really familiar with the systems he's not going to have time to find replacements and for them to have time to learn the oddities of the Twitter systems.
this also ignores that the way Musk has behaved over Twitter is going to mean that an awful lot of really good people are at the minimum going to have reservations about going to work for a man who will sack huge numbers of staff without even bothering to know what they do, and try to change the terms of employment and the conditions at zero notice.
He's also going to find that whilst people might be willing to put up with a lot of his nonsense because they're dedicated to getting people into space/learning about space, that isn't because they're loyal to him.
*The old "I charged you £5k to fix that machine with a £5 part because you're paying for 25 years of experience to get it up and running today, not in a week after you've lost £10k in production."
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I think you will find Musk doesnt do PR.
Yeah, one of the most followed men on Twitter, front page news every day, "doesn't do PR". I think I assume people are smarter than they are because Elon Musk obviously knows that him being such a high profile public figure boosts his companies public presence more than a "PR team" or an advert on TV, do you not think that?
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yup.
Twitter wasn't "left" because it's creators wanted it that way (you just have to pay attention to how slowly they dealt with death threats and the overt nazi types), but because it was what advertisers demaned and even then it wasn't "left leaning" it was more or less "this is the position the law, and our source of funding requires".
yea he never sent a Tesla into space for PRI think you will find Musk doesnt do PR.
Also the blanket term of anything 'negative' is surely a big red flag? So lets say if someone posts criticism of a company's product online are they effectively shut up? I guess that would please the advertisers to no end, but it's not quite freedom of anything.
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So you don't understand the difference between publicity and PR, that comes as no surprise.
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probably the way we are heading and with all the fake reviews... real reviews from angry customers considered "trolls" already get removed..
like if some crap movie gets review bombed "omg they all trolls" and google etc delete them.
if it can apply to movies why not products?
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He is definitely going to put Trump back on and it is going to be glorious.
The more platforms he has to embarrass himself on, the better.
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That sounds like an invitation for a free for all. I don't see how that puts advertisers concerns to rest.
Trump back is going to be amazing. Non MAGA Republicans will be begging Musk not to do it.
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Yes he needs to be as a Republican candidate everyone needs to see all the dirt he's going to sling around about the others
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