Anyone who was paying attention the first week he took over could tell he was an incompetent moron. Unending sympathy to the tweeps he didn't immediately fire, I can't imagine
If he had any sauce at all the line for that stunt would have been "mods are asleep post sinks"
I say just the way he was forced by legal action to go through with the purchase because he couldn't stop himself from shit talking was a red flag.
The whole thing was a mess, dumb ass tried to weasel his way out so many times
It was that or face the SEC for swvurities fraud. He was trying to blatantly pump and dump twitter, got caught red handed, and dogured he could pretend to want to buy it, pay a $1 billion fine for reneging, and moving on with his life.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
comments like this make me grateful of living in a country with free healthcare. i hope for you all that one day you'll be able to overthrow that shitshow of a country that is the USA
God that was a beautiful moment, if only a couple more major fake accounts of other major companies made similar tweets and the damn stock market would have seen a crash
It feels kind of weird that folks are putting out a book about the failure of twitter given that there's still lots of failure left in the failure tank. Books take a little while to write and publish, for sure it won't cover the lawsuit against advertisers for no longer advertising, making likes private, failing to do a livestream with Trump, etc. Musk will also probably have to sell billions more in Tesla stock to keep the thing afloat. It's the train that keeps on wrecking. Then again, there's certainly enough material for a book, so maybe this is the start of a series.
In any case, it's nice that the whole thing has gone as badly as we all said it would from the beginning.
I truly don't understand why have verification without... Actually verifying the identity of the poster?? Like, sure, 8 bucks and you can pretend you're special but then you need to actually do the work to confirm this person is who they say they are and keep other accounts from impersonating them.
He genuinely thought people would pay him for the privilege of being on his website because he surrounds himself with sycophants both on-and-offline. Musk fan boys prove this to be true because they'll buy a shitty $3,374,892.55 aluminum death trap and thank him when it doesn't work.
Of course, there's the problem of everyone who was already on Twitter isn't a muskrat. He thought celebrities and news outlets would fall in line like so many valley techbros, which is something anyone who isn't a dipshit realized was a terrible idea.
I get that part, it's the not actually verifying people when they pay for the verification that I don't understand.
Musk is the second coming of lowtax. Instead of $20 to get into the forum he wants you to pay $8/mo
Everyday he lives, I understand less about the right bare arms.
I'm so happy I never got a Twitter account. I never have and I never well. I get to hear horror stories and comedies from folks like from our beloved UlyssesT power poster extraordinaire (and annoying podcasters of various stripes and backgrounds, it's crazy how every podcast I listen into has a Twitter report section of some sort these days). It's also deeply not funny and genuinely upsetting how tech companies and platforms have so much unearned and undue sway on global communications. It's cliche to say but it's straight out of a 90's cyberpunk graphic novel how these companies just loudly and increasingly stupid ways control how we talk online.
I make sure never to directly link to Le Epic X Dot Com The Everything App Of Free Speech (but don't you dare say "cis!") and borrow screenshots instead whenever possible from a third party.
Truly the hero this site needs. Thank you for your service.
. Also excellent use of Elrond.Also holup, you can't say CIS? like cisgendered? For real?
Social networks were astroturfed into both importance and mandatory performative presence, with loaded articles in newsrags saying stuff like "WE ALL ARE ON FACEBOOK NOW. ISN'T THAT SOMETHING?!".... "Sometimes astroturfing feels so blatant that I can smell the petrochemicals... complete with SEO faces of awe and wonder presented on every fucking image tied to such propaganda."
Exactly dude. Fuckin' exactly!!! You can waft in that fresh manufactured consent. Some days I feel like a geezer but the NET (not just social media which people often confuse with the internet as a whole) has been radically astroturfed
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Elon has always been like this. He's just a really good conman.
Can you guys please not mess with the spelling of the name of this idiot, this stop my blocklist from working as intended.
k thanks, bye
I'm honestly surprised Twitter still generates content for us. I was honestly expecting it to implode in terms of both users and the ability to service what users remained.
banger title
