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I agree, and not because Elon's not a smart dude. I think it was Jason Calacanis who suggested charging people for the ability to write essays on the platform.

I agree, and not because Elon's not a smart dude. I think it was Jason Calacanis who suggested charging people for the ability to write essays on the platform. I'm not convinced some of these people even understand what Twitter is.

Pxtl 5y ago
Imho, success has broken Musk's brain. When he was focused 100% on getting his many projects off the ground? He was successful and well-loved and wasn't shooting his mouth off as often (I mean, not never, but not as often). But now that Tesla and SpaceX have "made it" and Musk has delegated enough that he can live his "richest man on Earth" life without 24/7 grinding on his enterprises? He's choosing to spend it on infantile Very Online shit, and it's damaged his mental health. His life is rapidly looking like a cautionary tale about social media addiction that we should all learn from.
- sytelus 5y ago
  I don't know if this is really the case or if your prediction will pan out but I do worry about very rich people losing ability to make difference. I was reading the book "Happy at Any Cost" which is a story about Zappos founder, how he got on drugs and lost focus. If you think about it, this is the fate of many billionairs. You no longer hear about Larry Page or Sergey Brin for years on despite they having all the time and resources in the world, for example.
srvmshr 5y ago
Absolutely. If people wanted long form posts, facebook or similar were already there (minus the coolness quotient). For in-depth stories, a lot of the folks subscribe to medium / substack, which goes feature length. Twitter has its problems, but not having long-form should not philosophically be one of them, especially since it was centered around 140-280 character limits for short updates. Twitter should focus fixing the trolling, abuse & toxicity before they try fixing other things. Feature overhaul probably needed.
- kgwgk 5y ago
  If that was perceived as a problem, we would see people writing ridicously long theeads or including screenshots of Word documents as images… Oh, wait!

Pxtl 5y ago

Imho, success has broken Musk's brain. When he was focused 100% on getting his many projects off the ground? He was successful and well-loved and wasn't shooting his mouth off as often (I mean, not never, but not as often). But now that Tesla and SpaceX have "made it" and Musk has delegated enough that he can live his "richest man on Earth" life without 24/7 grinding on his enterprises? He's choosing to spend it on infantile Very Online shit, and it's damaged his mental health. His life is rapidly looking like a cautionary tale about social media addiction that we should all learn from.

sytelus 5y ago
I don't know if this is really the case or if your prediction will pan out but I do worry about very rich people losing ability to make difference. I was reading the book "Happy at Any Cost" which is a story about Zappos founder, how he got on drugs and lost focus. If you think about it, this is the fate of many billionairs. You no longer hear about Larry Page or Sergey Brin for years on despite they having all the time and resources in the world, for example.

srvmshr 5y ago

Absolutely. If people wanted long form posts, facebook or similar were already there (minus the coolness quotient). For in-depth stories, a lot of the folks subscribe to medium / substack, which goes feature length. Twitter has its problems, but not having long-form should not philosophically be one of them, especially since it was centered around 140-280 character limits for short updates. Twitter should focus fixing the trolling, abuse & toxicity before they try fixing other things. Feature overhaul probably needed.

kgwgk 5y ago
If that was perceived as a problem, we would see people writing ridicously long theeads or including screenshots of Word documents as images… Oh, wait!