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A technically minded CTO of a highly technical company? What makes you think they're so different to you or me?

KingOfCoders 6y ago
They should not tamper with their paper trail for accountability reasons, e.g. in many countries they are not allowed to delete emails etc.
- irjustin 6y ago
  I think you hold tweets in too high of regard.
  - KingOfCoders 6y ago
    Obviously a tweet can be used by court. And Musk tweets can move billions.
- dubcanada 6y ago
  It's a tweet, not a public news release.
  - zrobotics 6y ago
    How is this any different? His tweets quoted in the article are literally representing himself as a cloud flare employee (the CTO even) to the public. I fail to see any difference between a public tweet discussing cloudflare business and a post written by him on their website (or a press release). It would be different if he didn't discuss company business in Twitter, but at the point of saying he will look into customer support issues in response to complaints about the company, it certainly seems reasonable to assume that his tweets represent the company. For example, at no point on HN have I even stated who my employer is, much less responded to a customer and said I would take action on their behalf. The reason is that, once I did so, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that anything I post under this account represents a company position.
    - Fogest 6y ago
      I mean if Cloudflare made a blog post and decided to remove it in 3 weeks is that a problem? Why can't an employee decide to remove their tweets too?
  - KingOfCoders 6y ago
    So why were Elon Musks tweets regulated then?
    - sokoloff 6y ago
      (In part) Because Tesla told investors in a November 2013 official filing: "For additional information, please follow Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s Twitter accounts: twitter.com/elonmusk and twitter.com/TeslaMotors" [0] [0] - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312513427630/d622890d8k.htm https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312513...
- detaro 6y ago
  Papertrail doesn't have to exist in public as far as I know - and mostly relevant for things they probably should be very careful about tweeting about anyways (yes, I know, "everything is securities fraud", but that's a key point), which is why Musks tweets you reference elsewhere became relevant: Since he's not supposed to publish financially relevant things in non-official channels first but he kept doing it, Tesla declared his Twitter as an official channel for notifications.

They should not tamper with their paper trail for accountability reasons, e.g. in many countries they are not allowed to delete emails etc.

irjustin 6y ago
I think you hold tweets in too high of regard.
- KingOfCoders 6y ago
  Obviously a tweet can be used by court. And Musk tweets can move billions.
dubcanada 6y ago
It's a tweet, not a public news release.
- zrobotics 6y ago
  How is this any different? His tweets quoted in the article are literally representing himself as a cloud flare employee (the CTO even) to the public. I fail to see any difference between a public tweet discussing cloudflare business and a post written by him on their website (or a press release). It would be different if he didn't discuss company business in Twitter, but at the point of saying he will look into customer support issues in response to complaints about the company, it certainly seems reasonable to assume that his tweets represent the company. For example, at no point on HN have I even stated who my employer is, much less responded to a customer and said I would take action on their behalf. The reason is that, once I did so, it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that anything I post under this account represents a company position.
  - Fogest 6y ago
    I mean if Cloudflare made a blog post and decided to remove it in 3 weeks is that a problem? Why can't an employee decide to remove their tweets too?
- KingOfCoders 6y ago
  So why were Elon Musks tweets regulated then?
  - sokoloff 6y ago
    (In part) Because Tesla told investors in a November 2013 official filing: "For additional information, please follow Elon Musk’s and Tesla’s Twitter accounts: twitter.com/elonmusk and twitter.com/TeslaMotors" [0] [0] - https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312513427630/d622890d8k.htm https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312513...
detaro 6y ago
Papertrail doesn't have to exist in public as far as I know - and mostly relevant for things they probably should be very careful about tweeting about anyways (yes, I know, "everything is securities fraud", but that's a key point), which is why Musks tweets you reference elsewhere became relevant: Since he's not supposed to publish financially relevant things in non-official channels first but he kept doing it, Tesla declared his Twitter as an official channel for notifications.