Imagine what this must look like on the inside.
You're a software engineer at Twitter. You keep getting these weird tasks that you know are stupid, but you keep doing them just to see where the hell this bullshit will end up.
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And you haven't already quit because you're on an H1B/GC visa, and so your residence in the US is tied to your employment, effectively making you a corporate owned slave.
TIL people deported their slaves when they were unruly.
Bro what is elon doing????
At this point, I'd say: Providing entertainment to the internet while also helping grow the fediverse
Having never been on twitter myself I'm especially entertained, watching and laughing from a far corner of the internet
Twitter has a bad reputation from the "buzzworthy" people. It was nowhere near as bad as the terminally online would have you believe. I'd even say it was a GREAT site before 2016.
It's a social media platform. You (used to) choose whose tweets you saw. As such, it was easy to curate your account to stick to one kind of content. I never saw politics or sports, I only followed funny people. And I had every major brand straight up blocked
The 140 character days were like text Vine where you made a joke through constraints and I loved it
I wasn't really involved with social media back then sadly, but yes I did get that general impression. Before all the toxicity really overtook it around 2020 it did seem quite pleasant.
Shame really, corporate greed taking something quite nice and milking it so hard it's absolutely ruined. Then again, it gives way to things like bluesky so i guess it has its upsides!
See that's the thing ...toxicity DIDN'T take over, you just heard about it more.
This internet hate machine loves to pretend that the angry tweet screenshots they see reposted over and over are representative of the site as a whole while all the funny tweet screenshots they've laughed at are one in a million. But if you look at the usernames on the political ones it's usually the same handful of people...like that guy who starts every other tweet with "Holy fucking shit, Trump just..." Or the Brooklyn dad guy
I mean you know better than me (I'm not even on twitter so everything i see is just the internet perspective of it). I'll take your word for it as you're probably right!
I think the combination of sheer incompetence and his overlord bosses wanting to kill Twitter. Which is wild to me, since it could have been used as a propaganda tool for him ultimately worth more than the money he paid for it, despite the ‘worth’ of the company. The guy lives in a bubble with yes men surrounding him. He is the epitome of the meme “is it me that’s wrong? - no everyone else is out of touch”.
A right-wing propaganda tool needs people outside of the right wing to look at it. He’s far too embedded into that space to be able to appeal to other groups.
Since he started his act about buying Twitter I saw that as a personal vendetta to harm it - the ultimate tantrum for being mocked at there and not being under his control. He said he'd buy then backed off just to hurt Twitter's value, but then when he was forced to buy it for the first offer value, he got even more butthurt.
It's pretty clear that everything he's done since is to get revenge and destroy it. It's insane that some people keep praising his decisions towards Twitter as anything but ridiculous.
He's the rich brat who doesn't get brown nosed by the waiter in front of his date, then proceed to buy the restaurant just to fire the guy.
Didn't he offer to buy it so he could sell a bunch of tesla shares without sinking the value? And then he tried to back out, but was forced to buy it.
This look more and more like a speedrun on how to bring down a well established platform in under a year.
Wait, wait, wait, lemme get this right.
Problem: They were low or revenue.
Response: Increase API costs
Problem: API costs are too high
Response: People started scrapping Twitter
Problem: People are scrapping the site
Response: Make users sign in to view tweets
Problem: People have to sign in to see any ads too
Response: Tell companies that if they don't spend enough on ads they will lose verification.
I mean, what's next?
Problem: Brands start leaving Twitter
Solution: Increase the price of Twitter Blue
Problem: Decrease of Twitter Blue subscribers
Solution: Sue every other competitor for alleged infringing Twitter's trade secrets
People wanting a blue checkmark must own a Tesla.
I mean I would but they’re all getting recalled :(. Jk. I’d never buy one of those shit boxes.
Just a few more failed businesses and in about 50 years he'll be all set to run for POTUS as the Republican nominee.
I'm not American but I confess I'm relieved that he can't do that. Just try to imagine someone like him being able to fire nukes.
What makes you think he can't, and won't, do that?
He's not a natural born citizen of the United States of America.
Aha yeah I forgot about that weird rule
What makes it weird? What countries allow naturalized citizens run for president? (Genuinely curious)
What a shame he was born in South Africa and isn't eligible.
for some reason, i don't think that would stop him from trying anyway and then throwing a tantrum for being ineligible.
I'm not convinced the GOP wouldn't nominate him, and that the current SCOTUS wouldn't rule he was eligible to run.
Yeah, I get the feeling that he'd get nominated anyway and the stance would be "well we can't do the whole election over again, so let them run".
Sooo... blackmail/coercion then...?
"Be a shame if you lost control of your brand on my platform, be a damn shame..."
Stop using twitter. They don’t get to have the brand recognition anymore.
Stop calling it twitter as well, twitter is dead and X marks its grave
How to shut down a well established business under an year.
Getting low on popcorn...
Send a tweet out to Orville Redenbacher.
Speedrunning the collapse of the Corponet
Elon is fishing for suckers.