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It's unlikely that PG suddenly discovered Twitter spam problem. Sounds like he's cultivating Musk, or at the very least, trying to signal that he supports him.
by bambax 4y ago
It's unlikely that PG suddenly discovered Twitter spam problem. Sounds like he's cultivating Musk, or at the very least, trying to signal that he supports him.
A couple of weeks ago, Matt Levine predicted that would happen:
> If you have something to do with Twitter, or you know something about Twitter, or you are in the business of counting Twitter bots, then you should take a few minutes and ask yourself: Well, do I know anything about Twitter doing any massive frauds? If you do… look, I don’t know exactly what you can do with that. (...) Still. I just have a vague general sense that saving the richest person in the world $44 billion is a good career move.
> So you should expect that, over the next month or two, as Musk’s trial date with Twitter approaches, people will be popping up to say “oh sure Twitter is a fraud, massive fraud, totally, I have proof, Elon, call me.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-08-23/amc-goes-ape https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-08-23/amc-go...
- SrslyJosh 4y ago> Sounds like he's cultivating Musk, or at the very least, trying to signal that he supports him. Well, Musk waived due diligence, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- barnbuilder 4y agoYes he probably knew about Twitter's pervasive spam problem before but today has been a particularly bad day, as spammers are deploying a large number of hijacked verified accounts to impersonate the Ethereum founder coinciding with a major network change happening today. While all spam is bad, scams posted from a fake "verified" account are particularly odious.
- jdminhbg 4y ago> It's unlikely that PG suddenly discovered Twitter spam problem. It is, he's been tweeting about it constantly prior to the Musk acquisition.