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He already spends hours a week just posting on Twitter (and reading it, liking posts, etc.) I think he's obsessed with his growing celebrity and Twitter is his

by smt88 5y ago

He already spends hours a week just posting on Twitter (and reading it, liking posts, etc.) I think he's obsessed with his growing celebrity and Twitter is his megaphone.

ben_w 5y ago
Using it for hours a week sounds to me like he’s a fairly normal person, at least with regard to social media use. (20 years ago I’d have said the same about watching “hours” of TV each week).
- smt88 5y ago
  > Using it for hours a week sounds to me like he’s a fairly normal person, at least with regard to social media use. What does that have to do with my comment? I was just saying that he won't be hands-off as CEO of Twitter because he isn't hands-off even as a user. Also, if using Twitter that much were "normal" then Twitter wouldn't be struggling as much as it is. Even if it were normal, Musk is not a "normal" user (he gets armies of worshippers responding to every tweet) and he is the CEO of at least two other large companies, in addition to being a father of 7 children. He shouldn't even have time to eat or sleep, let alone troll people on Twitter on a regular basis.
  - ben_w 5y ago
    Oh ok — I thought you were saying his pattern of usage of the platform indicated narcissism, and I was disagreeing with that. That you’re saying here “he gets armies of worshippers responding to every tweet” still gives me this impression about what you’re trying to communicate, FWIW. > Also, if using Twitter that much were "normal" then Twitter wouldn't be struggling as much as it is. I think they’re struggling financially (if you can call a multi billion dollar profit “struggling”) because the money people make from advertising on Twitter isn’t that related to how much any given person uses it, as they’re mostly competing with each other for a fixed quantity of disposable income. (Number of users seems too large to count as a struggle, not sure what else you might mean). (That’s my guess, at least).

by smt88 5y ago

He already spends hours a week just posting on Twitter (and reading it, liking posts, etc.) I think he's obsessed with his growing celebrity and Twitter is his megaphone.

ben_w 5y ago

Using it for hours a week sounds to me like he’s a fairly normal person, at least with regard to social media use. (20 years ago I’d have said the same about watching “hours” of TV each week).

smt88 5y ago
> Using it for hours a week sounds to me like he’s a fairly normal person, at least with regard to social media use. What does that have to do with my comment? I was just saying that he won't be hands-off as CEO of Twitter because he isn't hands-off even as a user. Also, if using Twitter that much were "normal" then Twitter wouldn't be struggling as much as it is. Even if it were normal, Musk is not a "normal" user (he gets armies of worshippers responding to every tweet) and he is the CEO of at least two other large companies, in addition to being a father of 7 children. He shouldn't even have time to eat or sleep, let alone troll people on Twitter on a regular basis.
- ben_w 5y ago
  Oh ok — I thought you were saying his pattern of usage of the platform indicated narcissism, and I was disagreeing with that. That you’re saying here “he gets armies of worshippers responding to every tweet” still gives me this impression about what you’re trying to communicate, FWIW. > Also, if using Twitter that much were "normal" then Twitter wouldn't be struggling as much as it is. I think they’re struggling financially (if you can call a multi billion dollar profit “struggling”) because the money people make from advertising on Twitter isn’t that related to how much any given person uses it, as they’re mostly competing with each other for a fixed quantity of disposable income. (Number of users seems too large to count as a struggle, not sure what else you might mean). (That’s my guess, at least).