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Seek counseling for your twitter addiction. Delete it. You don't need it. You will be better for it in every way, Mr. Musk.

by cronix 8y ago

rchaud 8y ago
Your comment is slowly graying out, but this is the simplest and most obvious solution. Of course, once Twitter is eliminated I think we'll discover that it was the symptom and not the cause.
- mrguyorama 8y ago
  Narcissism is a hell of a drug
- dylan604 8y ago
  I feel that way about all social media, not just isolating Twitter. Social seemed to make narcissism accepted as the norm, and encouraged it.
gpm 8y ago
I think you vastly underestimate the amount of value Musk's twitter account produces for him. Tesla is in the business of selling luxury products. They live or die by people wanting to buy them. Musk's twitter account appears to be one of the primary marketing channels. SpaceX is in the business of - Getting regulatory approvals - Acquiring engineering talent cheep. - Selling things to taxpayers and rich people They live or die by politicians and potential hires liking them - billionaires who want a trip to the moon help too. Like with Tesla Musk's twitter account is one of the primary marketing channels. Don't think he's the only one doing this, here is Tory Bruno (ULA CEO)'s reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/ToryBruno/comments/ https://www.reddit.com/user/ToryBruno/comments/
- cronix 8y ago
  I've also listened to him in numerous interviews basically stating he is addicted to it. He's tried to control it in various ways. He can't. I'm not blaming him or saying he's weak, just that he himself realizes he has a problem and should take the next logical step since self-censoring doesn't seem to work for him. The stakes are pretty high for not complying. I understand your points. I don't think any of his companies would suffer if he wasn't the one making announcements. Stop talking about production. Hype all of the cool revolutionary tech you create all you want - just don't attribute it or mention the business side of things, especially when they are speculative. State facts, after they are facts..."we said it would be x production for 2019, and well, here we are at the end of the year we blew that away!!" or something factual. If he doesn't get a handle on it, he will lose it. That won't be good for anyone, except for competitors. I don't think Elon's use of Twitter is as useful of a tool for him in 2019 compared to when he started. There is plenty of buzz about his companies. I have tremendous respect for him. I absolutely don't want to see him fail, or see it fail because of something trivial like not being able to stop yourself from tweeting certain things that are off limits. There's too much on the line.

Seek counseling for your twitter addiction. Delete it. You don't need it. You will be better for it in every way, Mr. Musk.

by cronix 8y ago

Seek counseling for your twitter addiction. Delete it. You don't need it. You will be better for it in every way, Mr. Musk.

rchaud 8y ago

Your comment is slowly graying out, but this is the simplest and most obvious solution. Of course, once Twitter is eliminated I think we'll discover that it was the symptom and not the cause.

mrguyorama 8y ago
Narcissism is a hell of a drug
dylan604 8y ago
I feel that way about all social media, not just isolating Twitter. Social seemed to make narcissism accepted as the norm, and encouraged it.

gpm 8y ago

I think you vastly underestimate the amount of value Musk's twitter account produces for him. Tesla is in the business of selling luxury products. They live or die by people wanting to buy them. Musk's twitter account appears to be one of the primary marketing channels. SpaceX is in the business of - Getting regulatory approvals - Acquiring engineering talent cheep. - Selling things to taxpayers and rich people They live or die by politicians and potential hires liking them - billionaires who want a trip to the moon help too. Like with Tesla Musk's twitter account is one of the primary marketing channels. Don't think he's the only one doing this, here is Tory Bruno (ULA CEO)'s reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/ToryBruno/comments/ https://www.reddit.com/user/ToryBruno/comments/

cronix 8y ago
I've also listened to him in numerous interviews basically stating he is addicted to it. He's tried to control it in various ways. He can't. I'm not blaming him or saying he's weak, just that he himself realizes he has a problem and should take the next logical step since self-censoring doesn't seem to work for him. The stakes are pretty high for not complying. I understand your points. I don't think any of his companies would suffer if he wasn't the one making announcements. Stop talking about production. Hype all of the cool revolutionary tech you create all you want - just don't attribute it or mention the business side of things, especially when they are speculative. State facts, after they are facts..."we said it would be x production for 2019, and well, here we are at the end of the year we blew that away!!" or something factual. If he doesn't get a handle on it, he will lose it. That won't be good for anyone, except for competitors. I don't think Elon's use of Twitter is as useful of a tool for him in 2019 compared to when he started. There is plenty of buzz about his companies. I have tremendous respect for him. I absolutely don't want to see him fail, or see it fail because of something trivial like not being able to stop yourself from tweeting certain things that are off limits. There's too much on the line.