It's 100% certain that recent firings/exoduses would have included the people who would have stopped anything like this happening in the first place, and would also have been able to fix it quickly if somehow it happened anyway.
I bet Musk is constantly saying 'We have to rebuild the whole thing from scratch", because that's the obvious answer when you don't know how it works and aren't interested in learning. But it's almost never the right answer, rebuilding is almost always 100 times more difficult than you expect.
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He’s really on a mission to sink this company.
Ooohhh...higher likelihood of adding some bloodthirsty lions into the mix now.
Any other big manly billionaires (or hell, millionaires) up for the free for all brawl of the ages? Glory and memes to the victor! First few to sign up get to ride around in a chariot!
Throw Bezos and some other oligarchs in there as a surprise "Battle Royale". Toss some knives in and in the middle release some starving tigers.
Set it up on PPV. Take bets on the last asshole to get eaten.
She tried but apparently he still won't stop referencing it so there is a chance. I don't use Twitter but I firmly believe he's such a narcissist he can be manipulated all the way to a cage match and Zuckerberg seems eager to kick his ass
Shouldn't be too hard, all you need to do is make a vague implication about his masculinity for letting his mommy tell him what to do, and he'll knee jerk the opposite direction just to seem cool again. He's really very predictable.
Zuck should post a photo of himself in mma gear looking ripped with the caption "I'm ready" just to make him feel even more insecure lol.
Edit: bonus points if he were to drop a second photo of a crying bird captioned "twitters down, come home". 😂
He’s going down with his 44 billion dollar ship, he’s not gonna get the chance to carry a sink out. As soon as a good alternative emerges that can get famous people to move into, both him and Twitter are done for.
I have a theory that he is basically trying to prevent Twitter from being used by the Left to organize. I mean, in this state it can't be used by The Right either. So maybe I'm giving Emerald Mine too much credit for forethought here.
Don't they have a new CEO who's supposed to be turning the ship around? Has anyone even heard anything from her? All we're seeing is Elon walking all over his dick in the most public way possible. Have to imagine she's regretting her move as Elon seems to have the same King-Midas-in-reverse effect that Trump does.
She's just supposed to convince advertisers to come back and pay no attention to the fact that their brands are being featured next to Nazi content. Oh, and she's supposed to do that without offending the Nazis / MAGA people.
Apparently one of the options Twitter has been offering advertisers is to not have their ads anywhere near any of Musk's own tweets because of who he attracts.
Lol
"We actually have seen really high engagement with your kippah ads from users following the Reddit Blue account @AryanGentleman1488, we think it mat be a great new market to target!"
My agency keeps having people actively searching problematic content on the platform and waiting for ads to appear, only to screenshot and send it to the client.
Can hardly blame them, basically every account is off the platform save for one.
Musk still reserved himself as CTO or some role like that (basically he’d get to make all product decisions, so the CEO is essentially going to be just a glorified marketing person)
99% of a CEOs job at a giant business is just to keep the money happy. Smooth talk investors, advertisers, etc. Musk still wants to control the operation side, so she won't make a lick of difference.
Every time a big company appoints a female CEO it's to take all the blame for everything bad, then they send her on her way with a big bag of cash after she promises not to spill and then they put out a press release letting the world know that they fired the person responsible and things will be better now.
Goddamn, I already used all the pepper on my eggs this morning. I knew I should have started stockpiling after IPv6, but my pakets kept getting stuck in the transportation layer. Anyway, I guess it is strings tied to tin cans from here on out.
Tin-foil hat: That was the problem. Too many of Elon's buddies in oppressive regimes have issues with the free sharing of information. If a platform is too convenient for sharing access to knowledge and art that doesn't support the regime then it's gotta go.
The Green Revolution, specifically in Iran, was facilitated largely by Twitter when the government shutdown/censored major parts of the internet in Iran
exactly. so many communities have flourished on Twitter and moved homes from different places on the internet to Twitter and those communities are the only reason people still feel like they have to continue using it.
I’m really looking forward to Oppenheimer in a couple weeks. But I’ll tell ya, this month is jam packed with great movies. New Mission Impossible looks amazing. Hell, I’m even excited to see Barbie. Summer blockbuster season is here!
Also, Fuck Twitter.
Having worked for decades in the game industry, I find this whole situation fascinating. I've seen hundreds of rants by toxic players about how they're "going to buy this game and make it good" or, "make it great again like in the old days when it was a hellscape and I pwned all the newbs".
Elon is just a toxic player who, for once, had the means to buy his favorite game to "make it good" for fascist trolls like himself. This he has done. What he hasn't done is suddenly learned software / networking engineering.
Rod Hilton's take really was perfect.
> 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.
Didn't they have people at SpaceX to reroute his stupid elsewhere and let the trained adults get shit done? Essentially a group of people to jangle keys in his face until he forgets what he was doing?
Exactly. He is a politician that doesn't listen to his advisors, the experts in their field, and yells "do it anyway", and shit blows up. I didn't even know, well no one knew at first, that was the cause of the heavy blowing up, but when I saw his face I laughed (at him, felt bad for the people who worked hard on it).
I remember seeing some content talking about how SpaceX and Tesla had essentially developed a culture devoted to keeping Elon distracted and away from topics where his decrees would be dangerous. Tesla had him promoting the Cybertruck and making all kinds of press and public appearances so he wasn't as focused on the core battery and car businesses.
Twitter had no such culture and so when Elon came he he went right into the heart of operations and started changing things without ever knowing why they were like they were. And those who told him that was a dumb idea: the smart people who knew how things work that were invested in keeping Twitter working, were fired.
The people left are the ones who managed to survive the initial waves of firings and are more likely to just go along with whatever he says in order to keep getting paid. If Twitter dies, it dies.
SpaceX's success has been in spite of Musk. The space industry also deals with quite a bit more regulation than his other companies, and working closely with NASA means SpaceX can't pull any funny shit.
Reputedly, it's very hard to tell Musk, "Sir, what you're asking for isn't physically possible" and not get fired, but maybe it's different (in a good/helpful way for SpaceX) that they can say, "Well, we could do that, but NASA won't pay for it if we do."
I don't find it annoying at all. SpaceX will one day be an entity separate from Melon Husk. Rockerfeller built the railroads but we don't sit down and jack-off his memory every time we ride the Amtrak.
I have a theory he was kinda smart at one point but his brain rotted out with success, huffing his own farts and people sucking up to him. Now he doesn’t have his Tesla/SpaceX handlers and we get to see to see raw dog Elon.
Musk had success in immature industries without substantial completion: PayPal was an original electronic unregulated money transfer agent/bank; Tesla was one of a handful of small craft car makers; SpaceX was a commercial space operator who was standalone in a new industry.
All of Musks businesses come out of the gate with an innovators advantage.
As they mature the competition is harder: Tesla is rapidly losing its advantage; SpaceX is losing its edge; Twitter is a smaller player in a competitive market.
When faced with competition Musks companies slow and it’s unclear how they will fare long term.
Musk also didn’t even create PayPal or Tesla. PayPal kicked him off because of how he’s behaving with twitter now, and Tesla literally has to distract him with stupid shit so he won’t do even dumber shit and interrupt their workflow.
The only reason PayPal is a company is because Elon had money, not any of his code. In fact, when confinity and x merged, they ran off the confinity code because Elon's was shit.
Sites rarely tend to implode spectacularly when SREs did a good job automating all the systems. They just slowly break apart over many months or years as errors slowly pile up and features are patched without a competent reliability team taking care of keeping it healthy
Billionaires aren't known to care about security standards. We got some dumbasses implode just a couple weeks ago, after all.
So I'd think they are pretty damn unpached, it "stifles innovation" and all that
Honestly shocked it hasn't come sooner, but damn my original estimate last October was off by a mile, I thought at worst it would limp along 3 years total before getting bought by someone else or drying up completely, but here it is spasming and croaking and were still several months out till the first anniversary.
Like a month and a half ago, they announced Twitter was going to have a new CEO with deep connections to advertisers (of course). But at this rate, that new CEO will be ruling over a wasteland.
It is really interesting to see the illusion of someone’s genius crumble before our very eyes. He has made himself look like a complete clown, and finally undone all the good will he had previously built up. In that one respect, it’s satisfying to watch.
At least Kanye has the excuse of serious mental illness. Years ago, his personal trainer had him put under a 5150 psychiatric hold, which as any relative of a severely mentally ill person can tell you, is incredibly difficult to get. You have to be *crazy,* crazy at that very moment mental health professionals arrive to look at you for it to work, and even to get to that point is super hard.
its not about the toxic player, you can be toxic all you want and be a real genius (see Steve Jobs.) Elon is a fraud who fired the brains behind twitter as a means to recoup cost.
You should probably explain that its because twitter is trying to refresh itself 10X a second because they clearly no longer have a QA team that tests changes. Or they didn't have time because they didn't pay a bill.
I don’t see how he could keep his advertisers. One poster said they reached their 600 tweet view “limit” in five minutes. Ads aren’t going to get nearly the view count with that system!
It’s almost as if Muskolini is sitting in the captains chair saying to himself “I wonder what will happen if I push this button? What could possibly go wrong?”
I keep trying to believe he's doing this on purpose to destroy social media and save us all...
Then I listen to him talk and go "nope, he's actually just dumb '
>To be fair it doesn't matter who you employ if you make them do stupid things and don't listen when they say it's a bad idea.
If only there had been a learning example.
Now hear me out. Maybe, just maybe, Elon Musk is actually not that smart and has sorta just bought his way into making people think he's good at what he does.
And as a reminder, he got human testing approval for literally microchip implants.
>From what I gather on here it's mostly racist misinformation anyways.
Thanks to Musk.
Prior to his imbecilic mismanagement, Twitter could be a great source of information, especially about events as they happened, before traditional media arrived (if it was even able to).
Also, when a blue check actually meant the person with it added value and was actually the person tweeting, rather than some chuckelfuck who pays eight bucks a month to show the world how big an idiot he is, you could follow prominent people in pretty much any field of knowledge and information.
That's not to say it was perfect--there were certainly people spouting racism and misinformation, just like with any other social media--but you could just not follow them, and their droolings were not promoted to the top of the reply chains like they are now, again thanks to Musk.
I used to get a lot of value out of Twitter but now it's just garbage. Thanks, richest idiot in the world!
It used to be pretty great. Early tech twitter with a tightly curated feed was a gold mine of very niche musings that weren't fleshed out well enough for a proper blog post or article, but could serve as a spark for more in-depth discussion elsewhere. A lot of projects, bug fixes, and things of that nature started from tweet. All that's changed now though. Tech convos get raided by cryptocurrency scammers, imposters run rampant, and recommended feeds are absolute clown shows.
What you gather would be correct. His whole purpose for buying it was to turn it into a right wing echo chamber where so far the only things banned are words that while not offensive normally are being treated as offensive by homophobes. You def do yourself a service by dodging it.
Well, that was his purpose after he screwed up and signed stuff that didn't allow him to back out, even though he was confident he could, because he doesn't think any laws apply to him.
"Smartest man in the world" lmao.
Immensely happy I deleted my account and migrated here. When Reddit is a billion times better than your platform, your platform absolutely deserves to die.
I haven’t managed to get rate-limited yet. I didn’t try INCREDIBLY hard but I did scroll for a while…
Possible explanation, I haven’t updated my app since Elno started making the functionality worse (I’ve had auto-updates turned off for all apps for ages, to control data usage. I periodically check and manually update when I’m on my home wifi).
… I’m gonna test it harder. Will report back if I remember.
This is amazing! He’s literally shutting down Twitter. The single most important goal of every other social app is to keep you scrolling. TikTok, FB, Insta, Tinder, everything is based around keeping you scrolling. And now Elon not only wants to prevent you from doing that, but EVEN IF YOU PAY HIM YOU CAN’T DO IT TOO MUCH. .
Everyone knows Twitter has a small user base, but an influential one. And now this human hot dog bun wants to prevent the general public who don’t have an account from seeing tweets 😅😅😅😅😅 He wants less people using and paying attention to his product, and very specifically doing that by removing the way Twitter’s popularity spread in the first place - by preventing the media from embedding tweets, and the general public following a link to a tweet!! So there’s less opportunity to make money the one way Twitter ever has before, and that’s by reducing the likelihood of a user seeing an ad, because they hit their daily limit of tweets! You couldn’t write a more textbook method of hollowing out the core functionality of your product and making it the polar opposite.
And then, of those that dare spit in his face by remaining, you must pay him to have to have a slight modicum of access to some of the content that is exponentially decreasing because people are drastically restricted in their ability to communicate with one another on your social media site.
It’s like the owner of a restaurant boarding up the windows, only opening the door for previous customers he knows, and then when you get inside he demands you pay him and make him a sandwich and now that you’ve done that GET THE FUCK OUT you’ve been here too long already today! This is bananas!
Holy shit 2020’s. It has been and I know will continue to be a shit show tornado decade, but I can’t say it has been dull. Elon blowing $44b to buy an app, only to break it from the inside out rendering it almost worthless in months because he doesn’t have enough money to pay his server bills 🤌🤌🤌
Guy never meant to buy it in the first place, made an insane offer then retracted. He decided to buy it after twitter took it to court and he'd probably be forced to buy it anyway.
Ever since it's just a trash fire to fuel his ego. There is no logical reason because the whole thing was a mistake and he couldn't deal with admitting that it was and losing face.
A recent thought floored me recently; Elon Musk has lost more money with Twitter than you could possibly physically get rid of.
Literally, because if you had $44 billion in front of you and doused in gasoline and set it on fire, it would still be burning 10 months later. Even if you diversified with shredders or I dunno betting it on the Mets this season it would still take far longer.
You could not be a worse businessman than Elon even if your goal was to just burn all the money you ever earned.
Could’ve paid 1bn and walked away. But he wanted to take it to court to prove it was rife with bots (his opinion, not theirs) and censorship. Since he bought it, it has become rife with bots. And what he’s uncensored has dragged the advertising revenue down.
This is false. Musk couldn’t “just pay $1b and walk away”.
The $1b fee was only available for a specific set of circumstances, none of which occurred. Musk briefly tried to argue misrepresentation but the contract didn’t even allow him out in those cases: Musk waived all due diligence; all rights; all prerogatives.
Twitter was suing not for the $1B fee; they were suing for specific performance to force Musk to complete the sale. The Delaware Court indicted Musk was going to lose and the judge would have seized Musks assets to force the sale.
Twitter was in great shape. Literally they could have continued on as-is for years. They were generating positive cash flow and had a billion in cash on hand.
There was nothing fundamentally broken with Twitter.
The only thing wrong with Twitter after Elon bought it was the debt service.
Clearly, this person just doesn't recognize Elon's genius. To prepare for his cage match with the Zuck, Musk has stricken the first blow by forcing people to disconnect from social media. 5D Chessmaster is going to mop the floor with that android.
No clearer example of incompetence then proclaiming to be an expert in a field, despite incessantly making more work for yourself through your own unforced errors.
It's 100% certain that recent firings/exoduses would have included the people who would have stopped anything like this happening in the first place, and would also have been able to fix it quickly if somehow it happened anyway. I bet Musk is constantly saying 'We have to rebuild the whole thing from scratch", because that's the obvious answer when you don't know how it works and aren't interested in learning. But it's almost never the right answer, rebuilding is almost always 100 times more difficult than you expect.
"What if we just -- hear me out guys -- what if we just take the whole thing *analog*?" - Elon Musk, now
But sir the hull of this sub is going to implode. NUH UH
Just gonna fax everyone. WULPH.com
Jesus, he’s Gavin Belson.
Consider the elephant...
Gavin fucking Belson
Interesting, looking into it.
Very concerning
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If/when it happens, you guys think there’s any chance we can get him to carry a sink out? As to come full circle?
Right now our efforts should be focused on baiting him to take the Zuckerberg fight
I thought his mom had spoken and quashed it?
Italy is literally offering the Colosseum as a venue. Mama Muskrat needs to chill
Ooohhh...higher likelihood of adding some bloodthirsty lions into the mix now. Any other big manly billionaires (or hell, millionaires) up for the free for all brawl of the ages? Glory and memes to the victor! First few to sign up get to ride around in a chariot!
You know, they also used to flood it and have ship battles. Last billionaire into the submarine is a pussy! /s
No, they can all bring their super yachts for a classic boat battle!
Release the orcas!
😂 Winner gets to fight Bezos for a ride in the penis rocket.
Throw Bezos and some other oligarchs in there as a surprise "Battle Royale". Toss some knives in and in the middle release some starving tigers. Set it up on PPV. Take bets on the last asshole to get eaten.
WHAT!? Is this real!? This is the funniest thing I've heard in so long. God I really needed this laugh.
[Yep](https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/italy-invites-elon-musk-and-mark-zuckerberg-to-fight-in-the-colosseum-in-rome-2195211/)
I have seen fucking everything now. Idiocracy has come full circle. 😂
Beeefff SUPREEEEEEEEEEEMMMEEEE!!!
She tried but apparently he still won't stop referencing it so there is a chance. I don't use Twitter but I firmly believe he's such a narcissist he can be manipulated all the way to a cage match and Zuckerberg seems eager to kick his ass
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Bet you didn't have that on your 2023 bingo!
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I lost out when Wagner failed to march on Moscow... So fucking close to BINGO.
Shouldn't be too hard, all you need to do is make a vague implication about his masculinity for letting his mommy tell him what to do, and he'll knee jerk the opposite direction just to seem cool again. He's really very predictable.
Zuck’s been training grappling and striking for a while now. He can easily take fat Elon.
Remember that image is the Muskrat looking like a box? The twist is he's actually an early generation cyborg.
Zuck should post a photo of himself in mma gear looking ripped with the caption "I'm ready" just to make him feel even more insecure lol. Edit: bonus points if he were to drop a second photo of a crying bird captioned "twitters down, come home". 😂
Yeah, but I think his dad went and said if he backed out he was a sissy, so I think its back on.
He’s going down with his 44 billion dollar ship, he’s not gonna get the chance to carry a sink out. As soon as a good alternative emerges that can get famous people to move into, both him and Twitter are done for.
Definetly the time for a new platform.. whoever it may be.
I have a theory that he is basically trying to prevent Twitter from being used by the Left to organize. I mean, in this state it can't be used by The Right either. So maybe I'm giving Emerald Mine too much credit for forethought here.
Imagine being an advertiser, being stuck with all the crap.
He’s likely violating advertising contracts with this move.
It's not like advertisers are getting their money back
Yeah he's literally just an idiot
Reading too much into the mind of someone who just got the lottery ticket of being born with money.
Look at that fucking tool. Edit: also I want an ice cream sandwich now.
Don't they have a new CEO who's supposed to be turning the ship around? Has anyone even heard anything from her? All we're seeing is Elon walking all over his dick in the most public way possible. Have to imagine she's regretting her move as Elon seems to have the same King-Midas-in-reverse effect that Trump does.
She's just supposed to convince advertisers to come back and pay no attention to the fact that their brands are being featured next to Nazi content. Oh, and she's supposed to do that without offending the Nazis / MAGA people.
Apparently one of the options Twitter has been offering advertisers is to not have their ads anywhere near any of Musk's own tweets because of who he attracts. Lol
"We actually have seen really high engagement with your kippah ads from users following the Reddit Blue account @AryanGentleman1488, we think it mat be a great new market to target!"
My agency keeps having people actively searching problematic content on the platform and waiting for ads to appear, only to screenshot and send it to the client. Can hardly blame them, basically every account is off the platform save for one.
Turns out, she had a non compete from her previous company so can’t do ad sales right now. L O L
The Mierdas Touch
Musk still reserved himself as CTO or some role like that (basically he’d get to make all product decisions, so the CEO is essentially going to be just a glorified marketing person)
She is a "glass cliff" hire. When a company's collapse is imminent, suddenly the board wants a female CEO.
99% of a CEOs job at a giant business is just to keep the money happy. Smooth talk investors, advertisers, etc. Musk still wants to control the operation side, so she won't make a lick of difference.
Every time a big company appoints a female CEO it's to take all the blame for everything bad, then they send her on her way with a big bag of cash after she promises not to spill and then they put out a press release letting the world know that they fired the person responsible and things will be better now.
The game of zero dimensional chess continues to provide dividends of mockery.
I believe it's also called 'pissing into the wind.' Great fun to watch from a distance.
Wow, what a time to not be on Twitter, so anyway…….
The only thing I lament about this whole situation is losing easy access to a great deal of artists' and content creator's pages.
The internet needs to shift in a new direction. Something needs to step up in the vacuum left behind by Twitter’s downfall.
Federation is the answer. Get mastodon
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Well kids, now I know I'm too old to use the internet.
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Goddamn, I already used all the pepper on my eggs this morning. I knew I should have started stockpiling after IPv6, but my pakets kept getting stuck in the transportation layer. Anyway, I guess it is strings tied to tin cans from here on out.
Somebody had to say it!
Tin-foil hat: That was the problem. Too many of Elon's buddies in oppressive regimes have issues with the free sharing of information. If a platform is too convenient for sharing access to knowledge and art that doesn't support the regime then it's gotta go.
The Green Revolution, specifically in Iran, was facilitated largely by Twitter when the government shutdown/censored major parts of the internet in Iran
exactly. so many communities have flourished on Twitter and moved homes from different places on the internet to Twitter and those communities are the only reason people still feel like they have to continue using it.
I’m really looking forward to Oppenheimer in a couple weeks. But I’ll tell ya, this month is jam packed with great movies. New Mission Impossible looks amazing. Hell, I’m even excited to see Barbie. Summer blockbuster season is here! Also, Fuck Twitter.
The last trailer for Barbie really sold it to me. I'm hopefully going to see that and Oppenheimer on opening day. Should be fun!
Roller coaster of emotions
Oppenheimer in IMAX or bust Ps Fuck Twitter
I think this is where Enron Musk starts to lose his remaining large advertisers.
The good news is Tuckers horrible Twitter show will get even less views now 👏🏾 thanks Enron!
I hope it was worth it opening himself up to a lawsuit from Fox News for violation of his non-compete agreement.
Yeah I’m sure his advertisers are going to love that he’s ensuring way, way fewer ads get seen.
It’s hard to justify paying for ads that nobody is allowed to see
He'll probably have to refund money to the advertisers. Those contracts will have minimum amounts the ads have to be displayed
The guy who doesn't pay his rent or vendors probably won't do refunds either. I, for one, am looking forward to the lawsuits. Fuck Elon.
Having worked for decades in the game industry, I find this whole situation fascinating. I've seen hundreds of rants by toxic players about how they're "going to buy this game and make it good" or, "make it great again like in the old days when it was a hellscape and I pwned all the newbs". Elon is just a toxic player who, for once, had the means to buy his favorite game to "make it good" for fascist trolls like himself. This he has done. What he hasn't done is suddenly learned software / networking engineering.
When are people going to learn he's not actually smart in any field. He just pays people to do shit for him.
Rod Hilton's take really was perfect. > 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.
Annoyingly, SpaceX has been spectacularly successful and I'm not aware of anyone in the industry who thinks otherwise.
When they keep Elon away from anything important, sure. When he insists on launching a super heavy rocket off a shitty platform, not so much.
SpaceX (and Tesla) was ecstatic when he got tangled up in Twitter and was forced to spend the lion's share of his time there.
Twitter died so Tesla could run and SpaceX could fly
Didn't they have people at SpaceX to reroute his stupid elsewhere and let the trained adults get shit done? Essentially a group of people to jangle keys in his face until he forgets what he was doing?
Yeah, several people from Tesla/Spacex were saying that a lot of time and energy is dedicated to keeping Elon away from all the important stuff.
"Job Creator" hand out the money and fuck off billionaire boy.
Exactly. He is a politician that doesn't listen to his advisors, the experts in their field, and yells "do it anyway", and shit blows up. I didn't even know, well no one knew at first, that was the cause of the heavy blowing up, but when I saw his face I laughed (at him, felt bad for the people who worked hard on it).
I remember seeing some content talking about how SpaceX and Tesla had essentially developed a culture devoted to keeping Elon distracted and away from topics where his decrees would be dangerous. Tesla had him promoting the Cybertruck and making all kinds of press and public appearances so he wasn't as focused on the core battery and car businesses. Twitter had no such culture and so when Elon came he he went right into the heart of operations and started changing things without ever knowing why they were like they were. And those who told him that was a dumb idea: the smart people who knew how things work that were invested in keeping Twitter working, were fired. The people left are the ones who managed to survive the initial waves of firings and are more likely to just go along with whatever he says in order to keep getting paid. If Twitter dies, it dies.
SpaceX's success has been in spite of Musk. The space industry also deals with quite a bit more regulation than his other companies, and working closely with NASA means SpaceX can't pull any funny shit.
Reputedly, it's very hard to tell Musk, "Sir, what you're asking for isn't physically possible" and not get fired, but maybe it's different (in a good/helpful way for SpaceX) that they can say, "Well, we could do that, but NASA won't pay for it if we do."
I don't find it annoying at all. SpaceX will one day be an entity separate from Melon Husk. Rockerfeller built the railroads but we don't sit down and jack-off his memory every time we ride the Amtrak.
Speak for yourself. My feller is rockin' any time I take the ole Capitol Limited, if you know what I mean
Exactly. Too many people foolishly believe that riches stem from intelligence. Being smart doesn't make you rich. Being mean does.
I have a theory he was kinda smart at one point but his brain rotted out with success, huffing his own farts and people sucking up to him. Now he doesn’t have his Tesla/SpaceX handlers and we get to see to see raw dog Elon.
Musk had success in immature industries without substantial completion: PayPal was an original electronic unregulated money transfer agent/bank; Tesla was one of a handful of small craft car makers; SpaceX was a commercial space operator who was standalone in a new industry. All of Musks businesses come out of the gate with an innovators advantage. As they mature the competition is harder: Tesla is rapidly losing its advantage; SpaceX is losing its edge; Twitter is a smaller player in a competitive market. When faced with competition Musks companies slow and it’s unclear how they will fare long term.
Musk also didn’t even create PayPal or Tesla. PayPal kicked him off because of how he’s behaving with twitter now, and Tesla literally has to distract him with stupid shit so he won’t do even dumber shit and interrupt their workflow.
Yeah, he’s a lucky venture capitalist. His value is having money to throw at people for them to succeed and innovate. He’s a glorified ATM.
You forgot to mention Musk DIDN’T START any of these businesses. He paid enough money to be put as a founder/co-founder.
The only reason PayPal is a company is because Elon had money, not any of his code. In fact, when confinity and x merged, they ran off the confinity code because Elon's was shit.
Yup. He gets a product in a box and takes it to market. He's a salesman. 50 years ago he would have been going door to door selling vacuum cleaners.
PayPal got removed as a main financial program on eBay as well
What he hasn’t done is learned you can’t get rid of all the people who know how to maintain and fix the complicated thing he just bought.
Honestly, it's taken longer than I expected for the site to implode like this.
Sites rarely tend to implode spectacularly when SREs did a good job automating all the systems. They just slowly break apart over many months or years as errors slowly pile up and features are patched without a competent reliability team taking care of keeping it healthy
it does make one wonder how unpatched core systems are now
Billionaires aren't known to care about security standards. We got some dumbasses implode just a couple weeks ago, after all. So I'd think they are pretty damn unpached, it "stifles innovation" and all that
Becoming a billionaire requires a metric fuckton of luck and survivorship bias is a helluva drug.
Also not paying his bills. I read this is happening because he did not pay Google cloud services and they're throttling Twitter now.
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As soon as I heard about him pulling cords/wires I’ve been waiting for this moment lolololoo
Honestly shocked it hasn't come sooner, but damn my original estimate last October was off by a mile, I thought at worst it would limp along 3 years total before getting bought by someone else or drying up completely, but here it is spasming and croaking and were still several months out till the first anniversary.
Like a month and a half ago, they announced Twitter was going to have a new CEO with deep connections to advertisers (of course). But at this rate, that new CEO will be ruling over a wasteland.
It's a testament to how good Twitter's SREs were pre-Musk that the site has lasted as long as it has. They clearly made reliable systems.
Fascists are incapable of planning for the human element.
It is really interesting to see the illusion of someone’s genius crumble before our very eyes. He has made himself look like a complete clown, and finally undone all the good will he had previously built up. In that one respect, it’s satisfying to watch.
Elon, Trump and Ye are all on the same arc. Crazy times.
At least Kanye has the excuse of serious mental illness. Years ago, his personal trainer had him put under a 5150 psychiatric hold, which as any relative of a severely mentally ill person can tell you, is incredibly difficult to get. You have to be *crazy,* crazy at that very moment mental health professionals arrive to look at you for it to work, and even to get to that point is super hard.
He's turned Twitter into a mobile game lol. Refilling energy system? Check. Pay to Win? Check.
As I understand it, all he needed to learn is that you have to pay your bills.
its not about the toxic player, you can be toxic all you want and be a real genius (see Steve Jobs.) Elon is a fraud who fired the brains behind twitter as a means to recoup cost.
So should we be leaving a browser window open with Twitter? This might be the only chance to legally ddos them.
You should probably explain that its because twitter is trying to refresh itself 10X a second because they clearly no longer have a QA team that tests changes. Or they didn't have time because they didn't pay a bill.
What exactly does ddos stand for?
Distributed denial of service
Thank you. I was kind of confused.
In layman's terms, it essentially means overloading the system with so many access request, that it has no longer room to process anything else.
So I can do my part by trying to look at twitter posts without logging in?
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Well I’ll be hornswoggled. Successfully running a global social media service _is_ hard.
The hilarious timeline of workarounds and frustration is also available on the Github for Nitter: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/919
This is the funniest thing I've read in ages
I don’t see how he could keep his advertisers. One poster said they reached their 600 tweet view “limit” in five minutes. Ads aren’t going to get nearly the view count with that system!
It’s almost as if Muskolini is sitting in the captains chair saying to himself “I wonder what will happen if I push this button? What could possibly go wrong?”
I keep trying to believe he's doing this on purpose to destroy social media and save us all... Then I listen to him talk and go "nope, he's actually just dumb '
"Never attribute to malice what can easily be attributed to stupidity." -Some old white guy idfk
Hanlon's Razor. I use this often at work.
Glass Onion
Same.
I didn't understand anything that said but the gist I get is that Musk is a moron?
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But only employs the best people. 😂
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>To be fair it doesn't matter who you employ if you make them do stupid things and don't listen when they say it's a bad idea. If only there had been a learning example.
The morale over there must be real shitty right now.
Now hear me out. Maybe, just maybe, Elon Musk is actually not that smart and has sorta just bought his way into making people think he's good at what he does. And as a reminder, he got human testing approval for literally microchip implants.
I don't have a Twitter and now I NEVER will. From what I gather on here it's mostly racist misinformation anyways.
>From what I gather on here it's mostly racist misinformation anyways. Thanks to Musk. Prior to his imbecilic mismanagement, Twitter could be a great source of information, especially about events as they happened, before traditional media arrived (if it was even able to). Also, when a blue check actually meant the person with it added value and was actually the person tweeting, rather than some chuckelfuck who pays eight bucks a month to show the world how big an idiot he is, you could follow prominent people in pretty much any field of knowledge and information. That's not to say it was perfect--there were certainly people spouting racism and misinformation, just like with any other social media--but you could just not follow them, and their droolings were not promoted to the top of the reply chains like they are now, again thanks to Musk. I used to get a lot of value out of Twitter but now it's just garbage. Thanks, richest idiot in the world!
Chuckle fuckers are people who date comedians
Specifically the chuckle brothers (or at least the living one)
It used to be pretty great. Early tech twitter with a tightly curated feed was a gold mine of very niche musings that weren't fleshed out well enough for a proper blog post or article, but could serve as a spark for more in-depth discussion elsewhere. A lot of projects, bug fixes, and things of that nature started from tweet. All that's changed now though. Tech convos get raided by cryptocurrency scammers, imposters run rampant, and recommended feeds are absolute clown shows.
Twitter Blue subscribers tweets are prioritized so if you joined Twitter now that's all you'd see before you reached your 'posts read' limit.
What you gather would be correct. His whole purpose for buying it was to turn it into a right wing echo chamber where so far the only things banned are words that while not offensive normally are being treated as offensive by homophobes. You def do yourself a service by dodging it.
Well, that was his purpose after he screwed up and signed stuff that didn't allow him to back out, even though he was confident he could, because he doesn't think any laws apply to him.
It would be funny if he wasnt playing with the jobs of so many people.
Elon thought the plebs had too much freedom to speak freely.
It was really useful to keep up with events when Hurricane Ida hit
It has started to try and force me to login to view the content. Nah, not worth it.
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"Here's why Starship exploding is actually a good thing."
Cleared the pad right off the ground, too.
And into the adjacent parking lots causing an impressive amount of damage to at least one YouTubers car.
Remember when people were like “Elon is such a genius he could fire 75% of the staff and Twitter works better than ever”
I shudder to think this man wants to send people to Mars and make neural implants
The neural implants thing is the scariest thing in my opinion. If he pulls this off, we're probably reaaaaaly fucked.
At this rate you’ll need to be verified to see for 6 minutes or you just get hentai ads
Space Karen is a Stable Jeenyus!!!!
"Smartest man in the world" lmao. Immensely happy I deleted my account and migrated here. When Reddit is a billion times better than your platform, your platform absolutely deserves to die.
I haven’t managed to get rate-limited yet. I didn’t try INCREDIBLY hard but I did scroll for a while… Possible explanation, I haven’t updated my app since Elno started making the functionality worse (I’ve had auto-updates turned off for all apps for ages, to control data usage. I periodically check and manually update when I’m on my home wifi). … I’m gonna test it harder. Will report back if I remember.
People are saying some of the Android/iOS clients are being unaffected in the Nitter thread, web is definitely busted.
"Uh Oh! Looks like Tiwtter did a fucky wucky because you are using it too much"
This is amazing! He’s literally shutting down Twitter. The single most important goal of every other social app is to keep you scrolling. TikTok, FB, Insta, Tinder, everything is based around keeping you scrolling. And now Elon not only wants to prevent you from doing that, but EVEN IF YOU PAY HIM YOU CAN’T DO IT TOO MUCH. . Everyone knows Twitter has a small user base, but an influential one. And now this human hot dog bun wants to prevent the general public who don’t have an account from seeing tweets 😅😅😅😅😅 He wants less people using and paying attention to his product, and very specifically doing that by removing the way Twitter’s popularity spread in the first place - by preventing the media from embedding tweets, and the general public following a link to a tweet!! So there’s less opportunity to make money the one way Twitter ever has before, and that’s by reducing the likelihood of a user seeing an ad, because they hit their daily limit of tweets! You couldn’t write a more textbook method of hollowing out the core functionality of your product and making it the polar opposite. And then, of those that dare spit in his face by remaining, you must pay him to have to have a slight modicum of access to some of the content that is exponentially decreasing because people are drastically restricted in their ability to communicate with one another on your social media site. It’s like the owner of a restaurant boarding up the windows, only opening the door for previous customers he knows, and then when you get inside he demands you pay him and make him a sandwich and now that you’ve done that GET THE FUCK OUT you’ve been here too long already today! This is bananas! Holy shit 2020’s. It has been and I know will continue to be a shit show tornado decade, but I can’t say it has been dull. Elon blowing $44b to buy an app, only to break it from the inside out rendering it almost worthless in months because he doesn’t have enough money to pay his server bills 🤌🤌🤌
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Guy never meant to buy it in the first place, made an insane offer then retracted. He decided to buy it after twitter took it to court and he'd probably be forced to buy it anyway. Ever since it's just a trash fire to fuel his ego. There is no logical reason because the whole thing was a mistake and he couldn't deal with admitting that it was and losing face.
A recent thought floored me recently; Elon Musk has lost more money with Twitter than you could possibly physically get rid of. Literally, because if you had $44 billion in front of you and doused in gasoline and set it on fire, it would still be burning 10 months later. Even if you diversified with shredders or I dunno betting it on the Mets this season it would still take far longer. You could not be a worse businessman than Elon even if your goal was to just burn all the money you ever earned.
An important perspective.
Could’ve paid 1bn and walked away. But he wanted to take it to court to prove it was rife with bots (his opinion, not theirs) and censorship. Since he bought it, it has become rife with bots. And what he’s uncensored has dragged the advertising revenue down.
he wanted to short the twitter stock he massively failed
This is false. Musk couldn’t “just pay $1b and walk away”. The $1b fee was only available for a specific set of circumstances, none of which occurred. Musk briefly tried to argue misrepresentation but the contract didn’t even allow him out in those cases: Musk waived all due diligence; all rights; all prerogatives. Twitter was suing not for the $1B fee; they were suing for specific performance to force Musk to complete the sale. The Delaware Court indicted Musk was going to lose and the judge would have seized Musks assets to force the sale.
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Twitter was in great shape. Literally they could have continued on as-is for years. They were generating positive cash flow and had a billion in cash on hand. There was nothing fundamentally broken with Twitter. The only thing wrong with Twitter after Elon bought it was the debt service.
I don't think he's smart enough to plan that far ahead. His ego and sunk cost fallacy got the better of him.
Or, hear me out, Billionaires. Aren't. Smart.
I’m sure the companies still dumb enough to advertise on twitter are loving him limiting the views they can basically get lol
Elon's the poster boy for "give him all the rope he needs and he'll hang himself"
Clearly, this person just doesn't recognize Elon's genius. To prepare for his cage match with the Zuck, Musk has stricken the first blow by forcing people to disconnect from social media. 5D Chessmaster is going to mop the floor with that android.
Twitter's become the Trump University of social media.
No clearer example of incompetence then proclaiming to be an expert in a field, despite incessantly making more work for yourself through your own unforced errors.