I think someone wants Elon's **** on their face for sure.
The ongoing Elon Twitter saga: "insert demographic" melts down
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I think someone wants Elon's **** on their face for sure.
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What I don't understand is just how bad Elon has got at PR since he announced his stake in twitter.
He's famously not had PR depertmants, and famously gotten so rich from his own clever PR over the years. And that appears to be a significant amount of what Elon has done. PR rather than actual results.
But lately he's just terrible at it.
I for the most part agree with the 1 day delay of posting real time information that can track someone's location. 1 day old makes no difference to the point of the sharing of that information so fine it can be done.
However, Elon had to Elon it and do it in such a stupid way.
If he had only come out and said "we are continuing to let elonjet and like share this information, however had decided to require 1 day delay for safety reasons. We want to keep the ability to freely share information on twitter while balancing the safety of the individuals location."
Then that would be accepted. However he didn't. He comes out with this" antifa are trying to get me and my baby, I have to block the location of my jet to protect my baby. Someone hunt this attempted murdered down"
It's the same with pretty much every change he's ever done. The optics just look terrible. A billionaire firing half the work force just before Christmas in such a heartless cold cut throat way?
Blue tick that's paid for, price changes at a whim, retracted, start a public fight with apple, goes and grovels for forgiveness, brings it back. People still don't understand it.
He's just a mess and it is amazing the change of how he used to do things. The cyber truck being a great example, even with the breaking window at the announcement event, he still got great PR from that because thars what Elon was good at.
Not any more.
Is it just a case of realising the emperor has no clothes? Or has he lost it, money and yes men have got to him and he's now got that idea of "I'm always right so go with it" rather than thinking how it will be perceived.
He's famously not had PR depertmants, and famously gotten so rich from his own clever PR over the years. And that appears to be a significant amount of what Elon has done. PR rather than actual results.
But lately he's just terrible at it.
I for the most part agree with the 1 day delay of posting real time information that can track someone's location. 1 day old makes no difference to the point of the sharing of that information so fine it can be done.
However, Elon had to Elon it and do it in such a stupid way.
If he had only come out and said "we are continuing to let elonjet and like share this information, however had decided to require 1 day delay for safety reasons. We want to keep the ability to freely share information on twitter while balancing the safety of the individuals location."
Then that would be accepted. However he didn't. He comes out with this" antifa are trying to get me and my baby, I have to block the location of my jet to protect my baby. Someone hunt this attempted murdered down"
It's the same with pretty much every change he's ever done. The optics just look terrible. A billionaire firing half the work force just before Christmas in such a heartless cold cut throat way?
Blue tick that's paid for, price changes at a whim, retracted, start a public fight with apple, goes and grovels for forgiveness, brings it back. People still don't understand it.
He's just a mess and it is amazing the change of how he used to do things. The cyber truck being a great example, even with the breaking window at the announcement event, he still got great PR from that because thars what Elon was good at.
Not any more.
Is it just a case of realising the emperor has no clothes? Or has he lost it, money and yes men have got to him and he's now got that idea of "I'm always right so go with it" rather than thinking how it will be perceived.
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You misquote elon a lot, did he once mention antifia? I've never seen him do it?
It's quite easy to change the perspective of someone when you change what they say.
Agreed. The whole thing just comes across as him flailing around without any thought or plan of what he is doing, or even what he wants to do.
We are basically just watching a man literally wing it.
When he was only running SpaceX and Tesla, his audience was engineering and space nerds who appreciated his achievements with those companies. I think since the 'pedo guy' comments during the cave rescue, more of the mainstream population became aware of him and they didn't particularly like what they saw. Buying Twitter and then running it in such a chaotic manner has tanked his image even further with all but the hardcore Elon faithful.
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Absolutely delusional:
This woman seems to make the same mistake that a lot of Americans make - To forget there are countries other than the USA out there.
This woman seems to make the same mistake that a lot of Americans make - To forget there are countries other than the USA out there.
LOL sure enough... he's either going to walk it back or tweak it so that it's something about the sole purpose of the account not just people sharing links to other platforms etc.
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Oh absolutely. The guy is nuts and who knows what he is capable of. Sadly it’s a price of being rich and famous.
I love it that you tagged him again
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so the poll has finished and he’s voted out. What did he expect to happen? Didn’t the poll on reinstating the journalists tell him anything? I actually voted remain as it’s just so damned entertaining.
Direct democracy, very rarely a great idea!
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All part of the 9D chess he's playing
I wonder who he will put in charge.
But it isn't even that. I mean it is just a stupid meaningless snapshot of who might have been on Twitter for the few hours it was live and even saw it/bothered to vote.
As a vote/gauge of any sort of opinion, it is entirely worthless.
He was clearly changing ceos anyway, nice way to get the people to think they have a say in the matter.
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Exactly what happened.
This was one of the smarter moves from Elon of late.
He can step back and not look like he was forced by tesla/Saudi shareholders to find someone better.
I guess the issue is working out how much of the silly stuff he posts is genuine or not. The issue is felt by his investors because he's broadcasting to the world. This twitter stuff has definitely damaged his personal brand to some degree.
Maybe.
It's really hard to determine until Twitter has been running for a while under Elon, so we can see actual numbers and figures rather than stabbing in the dark and shouting and screaming like mental people.
I'm sure this years final quarter numbers/next years first will give a better analysis of whats really going on rather than the poor journalism and Elons tweets.
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