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

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I'm going to hazard a guess the official communications went to the last registered contact that Twitter gave the German government. and it was probably one of the offices that Musk closed and sacked all the staff at, either that of it was sent in German and no one left at Twitter could speak German or recognised that it was from the government.

As has been said many times, there are very good reasons why you don't get rid of Admin and "local" staff (or really anyone) at random, especially if you don't know what they do.
 
Werewolf said:
I'm going to hazard a guess the official communications went to the last registered contact that Twitter gave the German government. and it was probably one of the offices that Musk closed and sacked all the staff at, either that of it was sent in German and no one left at Twitter could speak German or recognised that it was from the government.

As has been said many times, there are very good reasons why you don't get rid of Admin and "local" staff (or really anyone) at random, especially if you don't know what they do.
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or employees are just too scared to bring bad news to elon, given he seems to surround himself with yes men and fires those who don't give him the news/answers he wants, there's a very real chance that someone has seen something come in from the german government, knew there is only one solution, which elon wouldn't like, and to tell him otherwise would cost them their job, so they deleted/archived/put in spam folder and moved on.
 
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mattx4 said:

As always Elon is on top of everything going on at Twitter

Imagine if the response back from the German authorities is we sent a note to your press email for comment but all we got back was a poop emoji
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Musk's go to for every problem is 'First I've heard of it' as if this means it's not really a problem or at least not his fault.

In other news, he's going down the Trump path of refusing to pay his bills:

Several more companies are suing Twitter, alleging that it has failed to pay some of its bills.

In the proposed class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, the companies accused Twitter of not paying around $230,000 in bills.

It's not the first time Twitter has been sued by companies claiming that their bills have gone unpaid. The allegations range from unpaid invoices to marketing companies for branded merchandise to rent for Twitter's offices. Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in late November, he's been on a cost-cutting spree. As well as laying off the majority of the social-media company's workforce, cutting back on free food, and auctioning off Twitter merchandise.
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Colonel_Klinck said:
Why people think this guy is a journalist or at least an impartial one is beyond me. He is an opinion writer at best as he has an agenda in all his work. Crystal clear why Elon picked him.

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Matt used to be a great journalist. Now he's reduced to this:


RIP Twitter files. We never even got to see the mythical 'Fauci files' Musk promised to release 'in a couple of weeks' several months ago!
 
unwashed potato! said:
What is substack and why would he go out the way to block it?
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Substack is a website that many journalists use to publish freelance work. As to why he would block engagement of tweets containing Substack links, there are several possibilities as I see it.

1) a journalist used their Substack to pass comment on Musk once, he didn't like it and threw a manchild strop.
2) he doesn't like links away from Twitter being promoted and has thrown a manchild strop.
3) he's a manchild having a strop, and there's no rhyme or reason to said manchild strop.

:)
 
Sankari said:
Matt used to be a great journalist. Now he's reduced to this:


RIP Twitter files. We never even got to see the mythical 'Fauci files' Musk promised to release 'in a couple of weeks' several months ago!
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What a car crash of an interview. Ironically the posts by JRS suggest Twitter has blocked Substack links, which is the main place where Taibbi publishes his "journalism" / earns a living.
 
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JRS said:
Ah, so that's what the Substack thing is about - a Musk fit of pique over a (potential, sort-of, maybe) competitor.

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To be fair to Elon, what he's doing makes sense.

Imagine yourself in his position, you own Twitter, you've over paid by more than 100 percent, you've personally scared away all the best advertisers, you've had to go begging to apple for them to allow the app to still exist on the app store, you have a user base that every day you make them more and more hungry for an alternative app, you're booed off stages now. Imagine to be in that position. Of course he has to ban links to better alternatives.
 
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