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dang, can we please change the title? This one takes Musk’s claim at face value, and is not a reliable enough statement of fact to be the headline.
by _djo_ 4y ago
dang, can we please change the title? This one takes Musk’s claim at face value, and is not a reliable enough statement of fact to be the headline.
- sn0w_crash 4y agoWhy is the owner of the company not reliable source? One may not be ideologically aligned with Musk but to pretend that his tweet on the company’s inner workings is somehow less reliable than someone on HN defies logic.
- cldellow 4y agoAn owner is well-positioned to know the truth, but also has strong incentives to mislead to serve their own purpose. (See also: all the posts about crypto exchanges recently. I'm not saying Musk is a scammer, more that there are literally examples of why owners aren't reliable sources on the front page right now.)
- _djo_ 4y agoBecause: - Musk still has an axe to grind to justify his claim that Twitter was catastrophically mismanaged. - He has a history of making very false statements about Twitter, including most recently that it’s the world’s biggest driver of ad traffic. That harms his credibility. - He has been CEO for what, two weeks? And he’s suddenly discovered all this bloat stuff that others missed? Again that seems unlikely. - This is a claim that on the face of it doesn’t pass muster, given what’s known about Twitter’s engineering approach. That should introduce more scepticism.
- sn0w_crash 4y agoOookay, that’s going to take me a lot of mental gymnastics. I’m gonna go with Occam’s razor here and just assume the owner of the company knows more about this than I do.
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- jfray2k22 4y agoSorry, but how can you possibly see his behavior and think the simpler explanation is that Musk knows anything about what he's talking about at this point as it concerns Twitter? Just because he owns it means nothing in this case - especially since he's avoided even discussing his misguided opinions with his employees? The simpler explanation here is that he's embarrassed for making a stupid impulse purchase and now he's lashing out.
- burkaman 4y agoIt isn't less reliable than someone on HN, it just simply isn't reliable. One easy way to judge the reliability of this claim: https://twitter.com/search?q=2fa&src=typed_query https://twitter.com/search?q=2fa&src=typed_query One of the "unneeded" microservices they just shut down was the one that let you log in with 2FA.
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- nstart 4y agoTo be transparent, I submitted this with “Elon Musk: <quote>” but the first bit either got auto stripped or I backspaced it by mistake.