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

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Begbie said:
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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Unless it's a dramatic fall, it may take longer to determine how much damage has been done to twitter. He's cut a lot of costs by sacking staff, and it may take a while before those lost staff start to bite. Twitter can coast with the technical deficit for a while.
 
The chaos continues!

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I don't think Elons personal brand hangs on whether Twitter succeeds or fails/declines. We've got an insight into how he operates, not just his tweets but his personal texts and the whole scenario around how he was essentially forced to buy Twitter in the first place.

I just really hope SpaceX continues and they do land something significant on Mars. He can't be that committed to doing this (given all the BS he's up to currently) so I hope that those running it are.
 
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unwashed potato! said:
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.
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I think you are right. I wonder what happened at the WC final and if it forced this move.

Who is he going to get to run it unless he agrees he has no input on the running of it? That would be your first demand as an incoming CEO.
 
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VincentHanna said:
To be fair to Elon, that guy does sound ******* unhinged though.

"Grimes is sending him coded messages" and "Elon is stopping Uber eats sending him orders"?!

But yes, it's more that he is hanging around where Grimes lives than anything to do with plane tracking.
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He doesn't know that though and so much for speculation that it was an orchestrated stunt or nonsense about how the police weren't called (which was based on some story where the LAPD mentioned a report hadn't been filed with them). Not having filed an official report with LAPD (yet) != police weren't called.

Werewolf said:
So either the police are hiding the fact a complaint was made, or musk is lying on twitter but not quite willing to commit a felony by filing a false police report.
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JRS said:
The answer being we know he didn't because the police statement from Thursday said that he hadn't. Because if he'd called the police he'd have filed a report, no? What would be the point in calling the police if not to file a report?
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The incident occurred in South Pasadena, a Los Angeles suburb, on Tuesday at about 9:45 p.m. South Pasadena police were called to the gas station, according to the business’s manager, but made no arrests.

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Shortly after the incident, officers with the South Pasadena police arrived at the gas station, questioned Collado and told him they’d file a report, Collado said.
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So it wasn't just some manufactured incident, it clearly did occur, some lunatic stalker who is a bit obsessed with Musk and Grimes was present it doesn't seem to have been random either - this guy who believes Grimes is communicating with him just happened to turn up by sheer chance in his antifa/black block style outfit?
mattx4 said:
I'm suggesting it was probably some kind of road range incident and Elons son in the car had nothing to do with it and it was a random crazy person.
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I think it's pretty apparent why Musk would be bothered by that and be worried about being tracked thus the decision to crack down on real-time location sharing as these lunatics are out there and real-time location sharing is a security issue that people should control themselves.
 
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dowie said:
So it wasn't just some manufactured incident, it clearly did occur, some lunatic stalker who is a bit obsessed with Musk and Grimes was present it doesn't seem to have been random either - this guy who believes Grimes is communicating with him just happened to turn up by sheer chance in his antifa/black block style outfit?
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That's right dowie, keep banging that drum :p
 
Break Things Fast - he's cleared out a shed load of dead wood at the company taken a ton of pain for chaotically being less censorius than his predecessors and will now leave the company CEO role to someone else. Might not be a terrible outcome for him or twitter, he carries away the baggage of all the changes he's made and someone else can rebuild a leaner platform. He's still a major owner and will have a huge voice in the company direction even if he's not CEO.
I doubt it was the plan but it might have been a philosophy.
 
PlacidCasual said:
Break Things Fast - he's cleared out a shed load of dead wood at the company taken a ton of pain for chaotically being less censorius than his predecessors and will now leave the company CEO role to someone else. Might not be a terrible outcome for him or twitter, he carries away the baggage of all the changes he's made and someone else can rebuild a leaner platform. He's still a major owner and will have a huge voice in the company direction even if he's not CEO.
I doubt it was the plan but it might have been a philosophy.
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If only he hadn't also scared away all the advertisers and saddled it with huge debts. The first thing any new ceo is going to have to do is find the billions of dollars required to service the debt. And I don't think the money is there to be found right now... also can't imagine the people he met with last night are going to just forget about the whole thing if he does try to declare bankruptcy.
 
PlacidCasual said:
Break Things Fast - he's cleared out a shed load of dead wood at the company taken a ton of pain for chaotically being less censorius than his predecessors and will now leave the company CEO role to someone else. Might not be a terrible outcome for him or twitter, he carries away the baggage of all the changes he's made and someone else can rebuild a leaner platform. He's still a major owner and will have a huge voice in the company direction even if he's not CEO.
I doubt it was the plan but it might have been a philosophy.
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Twitter would have been in a much better position if Elon had left the existing CEO in place (who was going to cut staff numbers anyway). Advertisers would have stuck with the platform and whoever the new CEO is will now have to re-hire a bunch of departments as there was a reason they existed in the first place.

He's behaved like a really shoddy consultant who has come in, ****** everything up royally, then fled to their next gig asap. Except in this case he still owns the company which is now worth far less than he paid, entirely because of his own actions.
 
Begbie said:
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.
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Change “antifa” to “stalker” and the main message of that post still stands. It doesn’t require that much changing of perspective.
 
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