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So many people are freaking out over Elon Musk's involvement in Twitter, but it's really not a big deal: 1. 10% is not enough to force the CEO to force the dev
by bArray 4y ago
So many people are freaking out over Elon Musk's involvement in Twitter, but it's really not a big deal:
1. 10% is not enough to force the CEO to force the developers to implement obviously bad functionality. An edit button is a sensible thing, a button to delete the tweets of other people is obviously a bad thing. They aren't going to drop the 'w' from Twitter just because he says so. Get a grip on reality.
2. The suggestion of an edit button is a good idea, we're human and we make mistakes. The suggestion to put homeless people in Twitter's HQ is clearly a joke. Look at his other polls for context.
3. Elon Musk I believe could be fairly described as leaning right, in which case could really help to un-bias Twitter's heavily left demographic. This could be beneficial, i.e. bring back diversity of thought and opinion. Twitter is geared towards hot-takes, but that doesn't mean some important an interesting public debates don't happen in a handful of characters.
4. Twitter itself is somewhat irrelevant as a platform and its value is overstated, companies should stop using it to field product complaints and politicians should stop using it to engage voters. Most of your customer base are not there. If you're browsing it every day, you are in a _very_ small minority bubble. It doesn't represent the opinions or diversity of the world. Most Twitter users are American, young-ish and left leaning.
- JumpCrisscross 4y agoIt’s an example of Silicon Valley’s elite’s erraticism. I love Elon. But he bought without activist intent, did a Twitter poll, accepted a Board seat, spoke—apparently for the first time in this sequence—to a lawyer, and then walked back. This is not how competent companies or civilisations are run.
- nullc 4y agoThe whole country is second order twitter users due to the popular media relying on it extensively as the source of significant amounts of their "reporting".
- 0xy 4y agoMost of the country does not watch popular media. CNN's top news shows average 500,000 viewers (less than 0.01% of the country), and additionally the country overwhelmingly do not trust popular media, and therefore would not believe them anyway.
- nullc 4y agoFair enough-- but would you also deny that we're all impacted by it? Many of us don't watch it (I don't). Many that do don't really believe it... but we all know people who believe it and/or people who waste their time being mad about people who believe it. :P