In the next 5 years, Musk will hire Pinkertons to blow up Amtrak bridges, and the Supreme Court will say it's unconstitutional for the government to stop him.
Love to not be made aware of some catastrophe bc a billionaire man child is feverishly coming up with Ed edd and eddy schemes to pay back his legendary buyers remorse
Yeah honestly watching Elon repeatedly kneecap Twitter by driving off the people that generate the content that made it valuable is hilarious
I think Twitter might be allowed to fail. He has been going weird about Ukraine and it isn't the only platform in town. You can spread propaganda through facebook and reddit just fine
Facebook and Reddit are by far the most lame social media apps. Celebrities and influences wouldn't be caught dead using them actively
Well either they would or the market would adapt to create a new social media for their demographic. America is willing to let trains and hospitals fail it's willing to lose twitter
Free access to APIs encourages people to come to the site dingus. Opening alerts brings them back on the app to browse YOU COMPLETE BAFFOON. They are you bait, not your hook YOU IMBECILE.
He's shifting the model to more accurately reflect the kind of people he normally does business with.
Tesla owners are more than dumb enough to pay a service fee to access their own vehicle's data. You know NASA is paying an arm and a leg to SpaceX in order to collect its data. Why would Musk assume the MTA behave any differently.
Hell, $600k/year is what? The salary for four cops? A drop in the bucket.
If you are still on Twitter.
You're a loser.
Get off it. It's always been toxic trash
I only started using it in maybe 2016/17 so that I could understand the Twitter-specific jokes being made on the CTH podcast and subreddit, and I found it incredibly grating, even when it was funny. I logged off when Musk bought it and haven't been tempted to log back on since. I should send Elon $8 as a thank you for getting me clean.
I hated twitter as a concept before it even really took off. "Oh boy, rich narcissists get to tell the world their pompous little brief musings." I only underestimated how much those rich narcissists would really get into it.
Whoa, how cool and good that our entire lives are under the thumb of a bunch of psychopathic manchildren, and no one is going to stop them because a solid 80% of the people in the west are clapping seals that are either fellow psychopathic manchildren, or masochists that want to see their lives go to shit because they think it would be funny.
There's a non-zero chance of the subway systems being shut down and gutted in the forseeable future in favor of bazinga car tunnels. :capitalist-laugh:
I'll take that bet. How far do you mean by foreseeable future?
I said non-zero chance. It isn't likely but it is possible. I won't bet on it. :bugs-no:
Dumbass. Even if the alerts were costing Twitter that much they were a cost that guaranteed every single person using the NYC subway was using Twitter.
This just describes why these idiots don't know anything about business. They are so out of touch that they don't realize how any of this works. It's easy to say "let's put this thing on the internet" because the thing being put on the internet already has some sort of human interaction in the chain. What he can't do is actually make this internet product into something that has any tangible value. We haven't learn after the crypto crash. Or Enron before that. Or the dot com bubble. Or the selling of railroad stocks. And so on.
Yes value is the problem.
There are a lot of things that were producing "value" for people to use Twitter for.
The most egregious mistake in my opinion is Twitter Blue though. Social media is a game, it's literally just the internet plus gameification. Twitter Blue is a freemium business model tacked onto a videogame after someone buys that game to milk it. But what's even worse about this model is that all the people not using Twitter Blue are the best up and coming content creators. He's making it impossible for good new content makers to be visible because the people paying for Twitter Blue are the worst posters on the internet (hence why they feel the need to pay to win). This model actively reduces value by filling the feed with the dogshit posts of all these p2w players when the good content is what should be visible if you want people to stick around.
I liked it when it was a lib circle jerk. Now it's a fox news comment section.
:shocked-pikachu: when you charge a random account $600,000/year to keep posting on a free website for no justifiable reason and they say no
$50K a MONTH to send tweets via API, that's highway robbery. Doesn't cost Twitter anything
And people wonder why we aren't ancaps.
Because if a billionaire wanted to charge you for breathing, they would. And all the justification that they need for that price to be 30 bucks a breath is "because I can lol!"
50k a month
600k a year could more than pay a team of programmers to make a bespoke app, wtf is Musk thinking.
Restricting speech with money. He got an (captured) audience, which means he can sell them to companies. It is in line with his philosophy.
Government can't actually do anything good for anyone ever, so private businesses can change whatever they think the market will bare.
I went out to get dinner tonight and had to listen to some dipshit at a table near me rant on and on about how "Elon" gets a bad portrayal in the media and he's actually a bazinga genius then came home to read this
2025 :melon-musk: driving the last remaining poster off of Twitter after an attempt to make them pay $5.99/month
More like 2025 the last non-paying customer leaves and all that's left on twitter are a hundred thousand blue check elon stan dipshit in their own echochamber.
It's basically a subscription version of /r/futurology at that point. :soypoint-1: :reddit-logo: :soypoint-2:
let's be real he will be the last remaining poster on twitter
Just today I was thinking how absurd it is that there’s a startup for testing tap water, and then I realised that this is a play on the fact that with neoliberalism on a long enough timescale, everywhere will become Flint. Why would the state test your water supply? The market solves for that!
Infrastructure folks, it’s going away!
We just need underground Tesla Tunnels, way better than trains :so-true:
And people wonder why China is kicking the US' ass.
Because America is a damn meme country at this point.
Nothing quite like the feeling of knowing that I am living in the second Gilded Age. :D
Gilded Age at least saw significant development of the forces of production.
Yup living in some parasites basement and paying for the privilege.
Love me some privately owned critical infrastructure that the whole world relies on.
