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

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unwashed potato! said:
Hopefully Elon will sell it soon to another billionaire, Rupert murdoch ideally, and then he can lose his billions too and we can keep repeating this until they are all gone :p
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He paid 42 billion to much for it, 2 mugs in the same lifetime rarely come along.

This is Musks mistake for a long time to come, he will need to take a 44billion hit on this one, as well as the billions he will spend to flog the dead horse.
 
Roar87 said:
I think the difference would be if South America banded together and invaded the Falklands with 20,000 men, likely we'd have to give up that territory. You seem to be confused again though, I don't think Ukraine should give up it's territory, I've simply explained Elon's position to you. He doesn't want Ukraine to give up it's territory, he simply sees that to unfortunately be the likely outcome. He is actively supporting Ukraine with his personal wealth. How much of Joe Biden's personal wealth has been donated to Ukraine do we think?



It's the same platform with some very minor changes. It's also more popular than ever.
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Yes he does want Ukraine to give up territory. He wants it to give up Crimea and the 3 oblasts Russia has taken. If he had his way this war would be over (until Russia rebuilt its military and tried to take the rest) and Russia would now have a 1/4 of Ukraine. It isn't about lives, why does he care about Ukrainians risking their lives for their country, that is their right. He cares about business and this war is hurting business, its pushing up inflation, inflation pushes up interest rates and as he tweeted numerous times now, he blames interest rates for crashing Tesla stock price. Its dropped from $159 to $126 in 5 days. It was $287 on the day he finalised his purchase. His Twitter purchase gets more expensive every day the share price falls.

So no there is no confusion here. You've made your feeling clear on this war in the Ukraine thread.
 
bris said:
He paid 42 billion to much for it, 2 mugs in the same lifetime rarely come along.

This is Musks mistake for a long time to come, he will need to take a 44billion hit on this one, as well as the billions he will spend to flog the dead horse.
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Don't forget the tumbling Tesla stock price, one of the worst performing tech stocks, clearly in part because of Elon and twitter, as Tesla stock increased when the poll ended with him stepping down as ceo as the result.

Elon fans want this to continue because they too can't admit Elon's faults and failures. In my view, the best thing he can do is, as you say, take the hit with twitter, and then go back to what he's great at. Improve Tesla, keep the image as clean as possible, work on spacex, promote himself beautifully. Keep that up. Not this mumbo jumbo with twitter and the right

I'm sure smarter users will explain if that's even possible? Given who he owes to and where the money came from etc.
 
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Colonel_Klinck said:
He really has gone full Republican red meat. They are loving this version of Elon. Why doesn't he build the wall? He can have it patrolled by fully automatous cyber trucks when they arrive in 2032-ish.

They still won't buy your EVs though Elon.

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The issue with this isn't just that it's massively stupidly wrong (which it is) let's ignore thar and pretend he's correct. The issue is that he's taking sides, while being the face of a social media company.

There is a reason Tim Apple doesn't do this, why zuck doesn't publically make stupid biased tweets like this.

Elon runs a worldwide social media company.

Imagine those in Ukraine now and their views when they read that junk. And other countries that America rallies on as allies, rather than them being under Russian control.

It's such a bad PR look. He alienates a side, when he needs to be welcoming all.

To those who love daddy elon. Pretend it was king Charles tweeting that. Wrong or right, you'd know how stupid it would be for the royal family to publically say anything like that. It is the same issue that Elon faces with twitter. He can't just freely do that and not care that he pushes away his customers.

He is creating an enemy that he doesn't need, for what gain?

The day Elon put in his offer to buy twitter wa the day his PR skills went down the toilet.
 
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Dialup said:
Twitter has been inaccessible more times since he took over - that's anecdotal but is my experience.

He took away verification, brought it back, took it away again and then brought it back. Amazing move.

He removed journalists himself which he said he wouldn't do.

This is literally Trump all over again, everyone said he'd be rubbish, he would do dodgy **** and that is exactly what has happened. Elon is literally the most unsuitable man to own Twitter.
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And made it so that it's now virtually impossible for many people with normal visual issues to be able to tell who is verified and who just had a virtual credit card, it turns out the accessibility team maybe did play an important part in helping make sure twitters UI was workable.

Not to forget his graphics for the new feature that looked like it was created for a fly by night 80's VHS distributor that expected to get raided for selling video nasties and shut down at any moment, or that sold cheaply procured titles via Esso forecourts ;)
 
unwashed potato! said:
Don't forget the tumbling Tesla stock price, one of the worst performing tech stocks, clearly in part because of Elon and twitter, as Tesla stock increased when the poll ended with him stepping down as ceo as the result.

Elon fans want this to continue because they too can't admit Elon's faults and failures. In my view, the best thing he can do is, as you say, take the hit with twitter, and then go back to what he's great at. Improve Tesla, keep the image as clean as possible, work on spacex, promote himself beautifully. Keep that up. Not this mumbo jumbo with twitter and the right

I'm sure smarter users will explain if that's even possible? Given who he owes to and where the money came from etc.
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Meh I remain of the view he's got incredibly lucky so far. A business he runs by himself he runs into the ground. It is clear that others are behind Tesla success.
 
Oops.

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/...0036.html?.tsrc=applewf&utm_source=reddit.com


A Twitter post claiming Tesla is recalling every single car from fake Elon Musk account starts chaos

A post by a fake Elon Musk account about a major Tesla recall has once again led to questions about the health of Twitter.

A viral post that looked as if it belonged to the real billionaire announced that all Tesla cars would be taken off the road because of a warning they were dangerous.
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:cry:
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
He really has gone full Republican red meat. They are loving this version of Elon. Why doesn't he build the wall? He can have it patrolled by fully automatous cyber trucks when they arrive in 2032-ish.

They still won't buy your EVs though Elon.

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I think the US already has enough military firepower to protect its borders Elon....

Oh wait he's conflating protecting your borders from a hostile foreign power, to protecting it from people wanting to come and make a better life for themselves and pursue the "American Dream".
 
Jono8 said:
I think the US already has enough military firepower to protect its borders Elon....

Oh wait he's conflating protecting your borders from a hostile foreign power, to protecting it from people wanting to come and make a better life for themselves and pursue the "American Dream".
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Whats the chances he's employed illigals at his companies as gardeners, cleaners, catering, 99 or 100%?
 
unwashed potato! said:
Stupid is as stupid does https://imgur.com/gallery/IQXMSST

Funny listen.

To be fair to Elon, he was right calling that guy a jackass, as the guy was being unhelpful back, however, Elon did also just sound like he has absolutely no clue what he's talking about, to a bunch of workers who really do know and likely worked endless hours to make what it is that Elon just says "we should restart this because of reasons"
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I can guess whats happened here, he's contacted a new software dev/firm, and they have told him what is common, they prefer to rewrite than work on someone else's code.
Multiple bits of software I have used over the years tend to regress post rewrite, usually in performance but also feature regression as rewrites arent easy and shortcuts get made.

Can often tell when a dev is changed on popular software when the new major update has big differences from the old one in performance characteristics.
 
Thats pretty much correct, have you ever asked a dev to try and unpick mistakes and optimise someone elses work? You'll be met with a sigh and a blank stare. It's not easy reverse engineering things, as typically theres no proper documentation....trying to undersand and then re-optimising them. It's oft' easier to just build a new thing.

None of these things are small undertakings though, they are huge projects involving many many dev teams and project managers, and maybe even several programme managers reporting to a senior programme manager to oversee the whole shebang.

Makes me laugh when people say 'a dev' has changed, there's a whole (very complicated) eco-system of build, test, release, involved in large projects.
 
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