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

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Muskbros will do anything to help...

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Chris Wilson said:
Judging by many posts across the internet suggesting Musk is an idiot, a lousy business man, a loser, riding the coat tales of those who are not, can I expect to see him posting in a "Cost of energy" thread somewhere asking how best to eke out his last therm of energy? Or will has rare moments of (no doubt assisted) financial lucidity see him through this crisis...? ;)
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Well, as much as he isn’t going to run out of money exactly, almost all of his reported wealth was tied up in Tesla stock, which is currently worth about a quarter of what us was at the start of the year, mostly due to him liquidating a lot of his stock to finance his forced purchase of twitter and then service the loans. This is despite him saying his money was the first into Tesla (it wasn’t) and would be the last out (it definitely wasn’t). Funnily enough if you look at the times when the stock took the greatest hits, it’s correlates with Musk selling huge chunks of it.

His finances have taken a massive hit this year, but his solar roof panels should help take the sting out of that a bit…
 
Twitter is running like a three legged dog with diarrhoea right now. Can't even log in properly.

Twitter has suffered a major outage, leaving many users unable to access the popular social media platform.

Some users attempting to log on to the microblogging site late on Wednesday were greeted with an error message.

Downdetector, which tracks website outages, said it had received more than 8,700 user reports of problems with the site as of 7:30am EST (12:30 pm GMT).

“User reports indicate Twitter is having problems since 7:13 EST,” Downdetector said in a tweet.

The outage, which appears to be affecting multiple countries, has not brought down the site completely, with many users still able to access the platform. Some users also reported differences in performance between the desktop and mobile versions of the platform.

Elon Musk, who brought Twitter in October for $44bn, tweeted late on Wednesday that the site, “Works for me.”
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Thanks, Musky!
 
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Sankari said:
Twitter is running like a three legged dog with diarrhoea right now. Can't even log in properly.



Thanks, Musky!
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LOL, there is a tweet I saw earlier from the genius that some backend server infrastructure changes would improve performance today.

Its possible its during the switchover, or its possible they messed it up. Place your bets now!
 
I love reading teh comments where people are going "yeah, but it's a performance car and you can't see the issues at a distance" or "it's normal for a car to have scratches when it's delivered new from the dealer" or "well he didn't order the better paint job he's paying for performance". And i'm like "man, a sub £10k Kia doesn't have that issue", doing a reasonable paint job is not something special, it's standard for any car company as part of the basic build and QC.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
That is a £117k car. I'd want it to be perfect. Imagine what its like in the bits you can't see if their quality control lets that past in the parts you can.
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That's my thought.

If a company is letting past obvious defects that are visible to a casual look around, it also speaks very poorly to my non car fanatic mind of the general level of QC and staffing, as a 100k car shouldn't have poorly fitted trim and panels, I wouldn't expect Rolls Royce or Porche levels of QC with people going over every mm of the car with multiple inspection lamps, but i'd hope that they could at least get trim fitted with the same care and attention you get on a Kia Rio or a Vauxhall Corsa.


Stu999 said:
I thought Panasonic made Tesla’s batteries?
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IIRC tesla assemble their own battery packs using commercially available cells* in a housing of their own design and there have been claims that in order to reduce costs and delays they've on occasion used potentially "damaged" cells that were in the disposal bin (because they showed signs of imperfection that could make them unsafe) for some battery packs.


*In much the way the likes of Bosch or Makita will have their battery packs but whilst they'll be their design and assembly they'll use commerically available cells inside it.
 
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