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Elon's companies have a unique and very different culture in comparison to Twitter. Of course, Elon was not set to be CEO, but to your point, the prospect of "E

by axg11 5y ago

Elon's companies have a unique and very different culture in comparison to Twitter. Of course, Elon was not set to be CEO, but to your point, the prospect of "Elon-ification" of Twitter was going to upset a lot of employees. The part I don't get: why is Elon still tweeting ideas for improving Twitter and shaking things up?

voidfunc 5y ago
> The part I don't get: why is Elon still tweeting ideas for improving Twitter and shaking things up? He's still the largest shareholder and he has a lot of soft power to sway opinions in the public sphere.
CharlesW 5y ago
> The part I don't get: why is Elon still tweeting ideas for improving Twitter and shaking things up? That is weird, trolling doesn't seem like Elon's thing at all.
- dobs_bob 5y ago
  Where have you been? The man lives to troll.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
  - saagarjha 5y ago
    You missed the sarcasm.
  - stickfigure 5y ago
    I read parent as sarcasm.
  - nkozyra 5y ago
    I'd argue he lives to be seen as a troll. As an actual troll he hasn't really done much but post tired memes until buying a large stake in Twitter. Time will tell whether he's actually going to do anything interesting with this stake but based on track record I'm going with no. Most of what qualifies him as a troll could be gleaned from a ten minute crash course in /b.
    - vba616 5y ago
      Well, is 'qualifying as a troll' really about appealing to the connoisseurs, the academy of trolling experts? Or is it about making the most people the angriest? It's like arguing about whether McDonald's is good food. Some people think that suggesting an Edit button is telling. "Here is the only imaginable use of an edit button. You post a tweet saying “I love puppies” with a picture of a cute puppy. A thousand people retweet your tweet; a thousand more quote-tweet it with comments like “what a good boi!” A week later, you edit the tweet to say “I think the Nazis got a bad rap,” with a picture of Hitler. Years later, a professor is denied tenure because someone digs through her old tweets to find that she called Hitler “a good boi.” This is absolutely the only purpose for the edit button, and oh man does accomplished Twitter troll Elon Musk know that. " (Matthew Levine last week)
      - hajhatten 5y ago
        There are fixes to this though. Limit the time the tweet is editable, and postpone publishing tweets until that timer has run out. Or show a history of what the post has looked like.
        KptMarchewa 5y ago
        Or just make edit button append text at below tweet, immediately visible in contrast to next tweet in chain.
        hajhatten 5y ago
        Why not both? If you want to edit posts after the initial deadline, that could be the next step.
        KptMarchewa 5y ago
        Yeah, normal editing for X minutes, then append only seems to be good solution.
        5y ago
  - TMWNN 5y ago
    One of the symptoms of autism is the inability to recognize sarcasm (<http://www.healthcentral.com/autism/c/1443/162610/autism-sarcasm/ http://www.healthcentral.com/autism/c/1443/162610/autism-sar...>) without the help of idiotic, illiterate signals like "/s".
- xwdv 5y ago
  Elon is a massive troll, to the point that I bet he has accounts on random networks dedicated to trolling people anonymously.
anonymousiam 5y ago
The board did not want him, but he is still the majority shareholder and may actually want to accumulate more shares than would have been possible if he had joined the board. Maybe he'll use his influence to replace the board with people who are less politically polarized. Maybe his new board will re-write the charter so he can eventually become CEO. I don't think this game is over.
- riffic 5y ago
  largest shareholder, not majority (51%) shareholder.
  - anonymousiam 5y ago
    Game on! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/elon-musk-launches-43-billion-hostile-takeover-of-twitter https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/elon-musk...
pmorici 5y ago
Not joining the board doesn’t change the fact he is the largest single Twitter shareholder. He didn’t buy that stake because he thought it was a great company as is.
deltaonefour 5y ago
What kind of culture do his companies have?
esalman 5y ago
You'll get it if you realize he is trolling.

by axg11 5y ago

voidfunc 5y ago

> The part I don't get: why is Elon still tweeting ideas for improving Twitter and shaking things up? He's still the largest shareholder and he has a lot of soft power to sway opinions in the public sphere.

CharlesW 5y ago

> The part I don't get: why is Elon still tweeting ideas for improving Twitter and shaking things up? That is weird, trolling doesn't seem like Elon's thing at all.

dobs_bob 5y ago
Where have you been? The man lives to troll.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- saagarjha 5y ago
  You missed the sarcasm.
- stickfigure 5y ago
  I read parent as sarcasm.
- nkozyra 5y ago
  I'd argue he lives to be seen as a troll. As an actual troll he hasn't really done much but post tired memes until buying a large stake in Twitter. Time will tell whether he's actually going to do anything interesting with this stake but based on track record I'm going with no. Most of what qualifies him as a troll could be gleaned from a ten minute crash course in /b.
  - vba616 5y ago
    Well, is 'qualifying as a troll' really about appealing to the connoisseurs, the academy of trolling experts? Or is it about making the most people the angriest? It's like arguing about whether McDonald's is good food. Some people think that suggesting an Edit button is telling. "Here is the only imaginable use of an edit button. You post a tweet saying “I love puppies” with a picture of a cute puppy. A thousand people retweet your tweet; a thousand more quote-tweet it with comments like “what a good boi!” A week later, you edit the tweet to say “I think the Nazis got a bad rap,” with a picture of Hitler. Years later, a professor is denied tenure because someone digs through her old tweets to find that she called Hitler “a good boi.” This is absolutely the only purpose for the edit button, and oh man does accomplished Twitter troll Elon Musk know that. " (Matthew Levine last week)
    - hajhatten 5y ago
      There are fixes to this though. Limit the time the tweet is editable, and postpone publishing tweets until that timer has run out. Or show a history of what the post has looked like.
      - KptMarchewa 5y ago
        Or just make edit button append text at below tweet, immediately visible in contrast to next tweet in chain.
        hajhatten 5y ago
        Why not both? If you want to edit posts after the initial deadline, that could be the next step.
        KptMarchewa 5y ago
        Yeah, normal editing for X minutes, then append only seems to be good solution.
      - 5y ago
- TMWNN 5y ago
  One of the symptoms of autism is the inability to recognize sarcasm (<http://www.healthcentral.com/autism/c/1443/162610/autism-sarcasm/ http://www.healthcentral.com/autism/c/1443/162610/autism-sar...>) without the help of idiotic, illiterate signals like "/s".
xwdv 5y ago
Elon is a massive troll, to the point that I bet he has accounts on random networks dedicated to trolling people anonymously.

anonymousiam 5y ago

The board did not want him, but he is still the majority shareholder and may actually want to accumulate more shares than would have been possible if he had joined the board. Maybe he'll use his influence to replace the board with people who are less politically polarized. Maybe his new board will re-write the charter so he can eventually become CEO. I don't think this game is over.

riffic 5y ago
largest shareholder, not majority (51%) shareholder.
- anonymousiam 5y ago
  Game on! https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/elon-musk-launches-43-billion-hostile-takeover-of-twitter https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/elon-musk...

pmorici 5y ago

Not joining the board doesn’t change the fact he is the largest single Twitter shareholder. He didn’t buy that stake because he thought it was a great company as is.

deltaonefour 5y ago

What kind of culture do his companies have?

esalman 5y ago

You'll get it if you realize he is trolling.