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Twitter was already under a cloud while Musk was grandstanding his acquisition stunt. Once he was forced to go through with it, his immediate actions and commun
by jdub 4y ago
Twitter was already under a cloud while Musk was grandstanding his acquisition stunt. Once he was forced to go through with it, his immediate actions and communication confirmed how much chaos we (users, staff, customers) were in for. Then after one week, awfully mishandled mass layoffs, demands to massively reduce infrastructure costs, etc.
Nothing's changed? Sure it has. Trust and confidence are hard to build, easy to torch.
One week.
- pastacacioepepe 4y agoChaos? I haven't been subject to any on Twitter lately. Actually it seems it finally stopped forcing me to signup? That alone is a great improvement.
- sshine 4y agoIt still does, but a lot longer down the page.
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- madaxe_again 4y ago“How much chaos” The only “chaos” I’m aware of is the /b/ N**r spam invasion that occurred one afternoon? The rest seems to just be Musk doing Musk and manufactured outrage (as I really do not understand how $8/mo is breaking the bank for popular celebrities and brands) over charging for validation. Anyway, down with Habbo Hotel.
- mackatap 4y agoI still think people are just mad because verified won't be a status symbol anymore. Vanity, nothing more. No matter how Musk handled this, he would've gotten hate because he is just a controversial dude, and he does like to stir the pot.
- jdub 4y agoNo one who understood verification thought it was a status symbol. Musk doesn't understand the platform he bought, so he promised to change the existing identify verification system – part of a strategy to combat impersonation and misinformation – to a pay-for-play subscription feature. But Twitter already has a subscription offering! He's just ruining the verification system out of ignorance and spite.
- kcplate 4y ago> No one who understood verification thought it was a status symbol. Doesn’t matter what the “in the know” understood, it’s what the blue checks perceived it to be. To them it was a hard to get item that only folks with some degree of “celebrity” received.
- jdub 4y agoBut even they didn't view it as a status symbol. A bunch of weird, ignorant, mostly right-leaning jerks did.
- kcplate 4y agoI disagree. It was a wide gamut, not just one political ideology. Just the commentary in the last week shows it was across the board. Fox News personalities to AOC to Steven King to a few other Hollywood celebs bitching about it. Wide range of political leaning, common thread…all celebrities.
- jdub 4y agoThey're not "bitching about" more people being verified, they're "bitching about" the wanton, clueless vandalism of the verification system.
- kcplate 4y agoAll I see is a bunch of wealthy and famous folks whining that their little badge of exclusivity has become easily obtainable by the masses for the price of a latte. Boo hoo. Your little blue badge of elitism is now available to the proles, how will you ever cope with such uppityness?
- jdub 4y agoFiring key executives and teams, telling employees to print code for review and then shred it, making employees crunch on a feature they all know is a bad idea, his usual extremely bad personal comms strategy (posting like a child), losing advertisers, mass layoffs, posting cruel misinformation, wall-to-wall press coverage of his idiocy... in the first week. That's chaos whatever your benchmark.
- WickyNilliams 4y ago> The rest seems to just be Musk doing Musk and manufactured outrage Is it wise to sail the sea with such a captain at the helm? Sure it's the same old boat, and we're heading to the same old destination, with the same old crew. But something is amiss.