One thing that’s very fascinating is to go to his tweet and see all the blue checkmarks pitching him suggestions about what to do now, but praising him at the same time for the magnificent work he has done so far, like, “excellent job on steps 1, 2 and 3, now he’s what steps 4 and 5 are about-”. They can’t really believe that, but I guess they do it to try to get a “Agreed” from him? I don’t know. Its mystifying.
Maybe he’s just really not good at running a social media company.
His old business partner Peter Thiel failed to start up a rival to Twitter, so Musk came along and saddled Twitter with $13 bn of debt to kill it.
These conspiracy theories are nuts.
Yeah man… It’s not what he’s saying that is losing him money… he’s just completely lost the ability to effectively run a company.
Yeah he needs to get back to taking us to space.
Oh god no, keep him distracted and far far away from SpaceX
Yeah, they’re doing great while he is distracted and shit posting on Twitter.
https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/109572674700288958
He talked about electric cars. I don’t know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Then he talked about rockets. I don’t know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard anyone say, so when people say he’s a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.
Maybe he should cut more checks to right-wing grifters. That should help.
Yes the fact that this is going on apparently should clearly mark everything he says as bullshit. If the platform was really that in trouble and insolvent basically pissed off every single business partner and gotten rid of most of the staff. And yet the apparently has the funds to pay out right-wing parrots. Shit only adds up one way.
Remember y’all - the first allies to Mussolini’s Fascists were industrialists and business owners who used them to attack workers and left wing organisers
Yeah, pay the people that are already being paid to post by right wing think tanks. Genius idea.
This is so true. 80% of the blue marks are right wing bot accounts that post -nothing- but about politics. I hope someone does a study to see how many are Koch brother vs. China vs. Russia. It would make a great thesis for some aspiring master’s student.
Unfortunately hard to do without free/cheap API access. Looks like both Twitter and Reddit want to make it hard for researchers to work out where the biases in moderation really are, while throwing some selective internal documents to some journalists in their camp.
Ooooh, that’s a really interesting read on the situation
Or maybe load billions more in debt onto a company that was just barely treading water
On Thursday, Twitter announced content creators would be able to get a slice of the site’s ad revenue, seemingly to encourage more creators to join the site. To be eligible, the creators must have Twitter Blue and have at least 5 million impressions on their posts in each of the last three months.
Among the creators who now get monetized off Twitter: Andrew Tate, the self-proclaimed “misogynist” online influencer, who was indicted in Romania on charges of human trafficking, rape and setting up a criminal gang.
Why do that when you can structure the platform to do it instead? It was already a cesspool but this is next level.
It’s such a goddamn shame that he’s now some sort of Alt-Right icon in their quest for “free speech” cause I’ll admit that I used to look up to this fuckin guy.
Take us back a few years, before COVID, and when SpaceX was doing their cool shit - I was fucking pumped about the guy. He was pushing forward in the realm of space exploration and I was absolutely fucking jazzed about it! Or at least that was the appearance; I know that SpaceX has a different company structure to Tesla where Musk can’t interfere as much.
Fast forward to now and I gotta ask: dafuq happened?
But I know what happened - he really was always kinda like this. It’s just that now - it’s going to be a really big damn financial mistake for him and good riddance. He’s definitely not some scientific genius - he’s just some emerald mine legacy that wanted to throw money at that sort of image.
You don’t get that sort of money and power by being a good person. The signs were always there for us to see. But so many people were complicit in the whitewashing.
Elon, as a monster. Was born into white supremacist apartheid south Africa. But even among privileged sheltered white children there. He was privileged far beyond. Attending only the better more exclusive private schools. And while his father and their family love to dance around the fact whether or not he had dealings in or was complicit in all the apartheid. Who are we kidding of course he was complicit and dealt in apartheid. Again you don’t get wealthy by being a good person.
If you look into everything Elon has done at every company he’s been involved with. He’s just the money. Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla. He’s contributed nothing of value beyond the money and privilege he was born into. Failing in and ever upward trajectory to this point. Literally at Tesla the one thing he contributed that wasn’t money or his name, was a proprietary charger plug design that he pushed. In hopes of licensing it out to other companies. In a world where those companies had those same funds but No Elon existing. Things would have played out nearly identically. Elon was never any sort of Tony Stark normal should we want a Tony Stark.
Special fun fact. Elon’s current stepmother is also his younger step sister. Now in the interest of full disclosure no there is no incest involved there. Just grooming and pedophilia. That’s right every time someone makes a tweet about pedophilia etc to have Elon Musk commenting “concerning” . It is mearly a Freudian totem to his father. Basically the equivalent of Elon saying “papa?”. Elon claims distance and estrangement with his father. Yet emulates him deeply in his sexuality and behavior. Whether or not the two actually are estranged or if this is just yet another lie upon all the other lines that Elon has told. It should be very disquieting and concerning.
I wonder what hurts the guy more, that he was forced to overpay for this dumpster fire, or that everyone can point at him as the reason for the site’s failure.
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“forced to overpay” is a weird, kinda Muskist-flavoured way of putting it. He just overpaid. He decided on a price, made a bid, reached agreement and concluded the deal, all entirely freely and of his own accord.
That he then wasn’t able to bullshit his way out of the contract shouldn’t be more than a footnote, it’s just normal process with court involvement only because he thinks he’s special.
I still don’t understand how they got him to sign that comically one-sided contract. He really should have involved a lawyer on his side. Maybe his ego was too large for that.
Ego, narcism, over confidence, his entourage of Dick riding sycophants… The list goes on. Basically they called his bluff Elon walked right into it.
It’ll be years, if not decades before Elon truly appreciates that he fucked this up.
With narcissists like this I think it’s safe to assume they don’t really factor in what people think of them. At the end of the day he won’t own up to being a failure.
Losing the cash likely hurts more. As much as it can when you’re that ungodly rich.
i thought narcissism is when you ONLY care about what others think?
Ah, looks like you’re right.
“A personality disorder characterized by self-preoccupation, need for admiration, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem”
Is it sociopathy? Whatever disorder that allows someone to become a billionaire.
Why does it need to be a disorder? Being a selfish greedy asshole is not a disorder. It can be a result of some disorders, but it doesn’t have to be.
You’re right. Narcissists are generally very concerned with what other people think - specifically about them.
That’s insecurity. Narcissism is many things, but a big part is oneself focusing on oneself. If others think poorly of the narcissist, those people are simply ignored for being wrong/stupid. Narcissists are brazenly selfish, vain, self-centred, etc. and don’t care what others think unless it’s praising, in their interests at the time, or negativity toward them is very popular.
good. he killed off thirdparty apps and destroys twitter each day more. i hope it burns to the ground so we can finally start using a better plattform without him controling everything.
let’s shoot for 60%!
He’s negative after not paying rent, his server bills, and firing everyone then not paying severance. That leaves $1.2B in interest per year plus whatever salaries he’s actually paying. They made $5.08B in 2021. It’s probably down a shitload more than 50%.
Why stop there? 70% is just right there for the taking.
You guys are thinking too small.
-200% and beyond. Twitter liquidates and Muskyboi needs to pay debts off using his personal wealth.
This is why I’m not a billionaire. I just don’t have that billionaire mindset.
I wonder why…
I mean, who could’ve seen this coming?
He should get better at begging popular YouTubers to share there content on there then.
It’s the best and worst thing to happen to the internet.
Best because - Twitter is a toxic site, with toxic people and a system that encourages ragebaiting means it breeds it.
Worst because - These negative people need somewhere to go… And it will only force them onto alternatives and fester in new places. Potentially here.
I think Zuck will suck them.
thread can be their alternative, but im worried about the outcome
Hopefully, Since thread is the new cool thing I hope it survives long enough to do so
I would rather it be Mastodon. I tried threads and it was a bunch of influencers prostituting themselves for follows and likes.
I’m still not sure whether I’m excited or afraid about the rumours of Threads joining the Fediverse.
Honestly, it should have been called “Threads and Thirst Traps"
sounds like reddit
Get fucked Elon
No shit lmao
Surprised it’s not more
Lol
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