What? The super genius couldn’t turn it into a cash machine? I thought he was the smartest (and funniest) person on the planet!
I think this is the saddest part, at least for him. Before Twitter, a lot of people thought he was relatively intelligent to be a part of a groundbreaking electric car company, a crazy tunnel digging company, and wild space vehicle company doing innovative things. Now since Twitter, we see an insanely rich narcissistic meglomaniac that was kept out of most Tesla big decisions as he just wanted the publicity for himself, the tunnel digging company was nothing more than a way to interfere with green projects, SpaceX did the same thing as Tesla and succeeded despite Musk’s involvement, and a once respected medium of open communication worth a reported $44 billion dollars devolve into a cess pool of bigotry and arbitrary restrictions. Whatever good will he built for himself over the years that saw him even get a cameo in a Marvel movie next to Tony Stark, he’s burned through most of it in the eyes of a lot of people.
It’s great for everyone with imposter syndrome! I used to fear I was too inexperienced, inept, unprofessional… but then this happened 😅
Does your daddy own an emerald mine though? That’s kind of the key here.
SpaceX and Tesla both grew with his continuous involvement. The managers were trained (out of necessity) to keep his “genius” in check without destroying the company or getting themselves fired. In a sense, Musk’s continuous presence gave the companies a form of immunity.
When he infested the bird, the managers didn’t know how to protect it. It was like bringing smallpox to the new world.
Also, there were no managers left after Musk’s big purge
Also, there were no managers left after Musk’s big purge
His new revenue is from oligarchs, not customers.
Buying Twitter was just him getting a fleshlight for his ego.
Glad it’s sinking, most likely will be removing my whole account from the platform very soon and gonna be so glad to do so
Not trying to sound judgemental, but what has kept you on up till now?
I just sometimes browse it, that and I use it when things like Uber Eats and other services seem to not work as companies seem to get back to so much quicker on there than any ‘help service’. I’ve posted way more on Mastodon than ever on Twitter. So not really much keeping me about tbh just want to be able to see things such as Minecraft info or sometimes put out a thought. Also some of my contacts only speak through Twitter as of the moment.
Thanks for replying. Personally I struggle to see what the use of it ever was. But that’s on me and my reality. Thanks for giving me insight :-)
Maybe you should not have fucked up a good thing.
Twitter was good?
Twitter was a great space for breaking news, official alerts like weather, earthquakes and tsunamis, for developing election day tallies.
The “you mean Grimes left the king of SpaceX?” manchild broke all that.She left him for Chelsea Manning, which almost makes me believe in karma.
It was mildly profitable.
Mildly profitable for about 2 years. After 12 years of losses. Then lost money even before the moron bought it.
I think everyone who thought twitter was bad/hated it just really used it the wrong way.
All you had to do was follow specific accounts akin to your interest (and probably avoid reading comments) and it was fab. That was the intended use anyway until they started forcing more algorithmic content you didn’t ask for into a new ‘home’ feed.
It was a fantastic tool for keeping up to date with things you are interested in and there was nothing else like it, still isn’t to that scale.
If you were browsing trending sections and engaging in comment threads, then you were always going to have a bad time and get bullshit shoved into your face.
Well, at least he has the “sink” in…
Too bad the My Pillow guy doesn’t have cash to throw at Twitter ads.
The hundreds of thousands of dollars he’s paying his right-wing buddies to post on Twitter are going to have a great ROI any day now, he’s sure of it!
I never really used Twitter, but I am enjoying dumpster fire.
Now if the government could only get his Muskiness to pay taxes.I’m gonna be honest with you, Elon: that sounds like a “you” problem.
Elon Musk being honest: Twitter numbers and financials are down bc I bought the company and ran it down
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Also, because there seems to be “some kind of moron running it”
Screw around and find out, Elon Musk…That man’s choices lead to this outcome, and I want to see him simmer in the shit stew. Keep the great news rolling in! 😏
Heavy debt, he caused by overpaying for Twitter with loans with high interest rates. And now Twitter needs to somehow “make a profit”.
Good. I hope things get worse for him.
Is it possible this is all an elaborate scam to steal billions from his private investors like The Producers when the entire network collapses?
