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Elon's first non-reply tweet since the news broke: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593415171149791232 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15934151711497912

Elon's first non-reply tweet since the news broke: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593415171149791232 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593415171149791232 > How do you make a small fortune in social media? > Start out with a large one.

barbazoo 4y ago
I'm glad he's having fun /s
- kibwen 4y ago
  I hope all the employees whose lives he's glibly and unnecessarily upended while having the audacity to meme about it are having half as much fun!
  - barbazoo 4y ago
    My assumption is that he's unable to empathize.
  - fbdab103 4y ago
    It has been half a year since this nonsense all began. I hope everyone at the company planned for upheaval and knew there was a (seemingly large) chance they would lose their job.
    - tehbeard 4y ago
      It seems that way, but the timescale is massively compressed compared to even the most pessimistic estimates. We were expecting a collapse in several months, not a few weeks.
  - recuter 4y ago
    Does he or anybody owe them infinite amounts of money with no strings attached?
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justapassenger 4y ago
I sense “nobody knew social media can be so complicated” vibe.
- bagels 4y ago
  It's really funny, because his beliefs stated in public were so naive, and obviously belied the fact that he grossly underestimated what it takes to build and run a successful social media company.
  - philosopher1234 4y ago
    All the musky users of hacker news seem to have vanished. Curious
    - dmonitor 4y ago
      I was admittedly giving him benefit of the doubt at first, because an active user of the website would understand how not to break it. I just struggle to rationalize any of the decisions he's made thus far.
      - philosopher1234 4y ago
        I think benefit of the doubt was somewhat warranted. Waiting to see what happens. But there were many who just completely dismissed the valid risks and criticisms people raised.
        bagels 4y ago
        He was either: completely making wrong inferences and misunderstanding the statistics around the bots problem, or just lying to try to get out of the deal. Neither deserves benefit of the doubt.
        philosopher1234 4y ago
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tjpnz 4y ago
Must be fun to truly believe you're a Bond villain.
- dehrmann 4y ago
  If someone has a secret volcano lair, it's Larry Ellison, but I'm sure Elon has something too.
  - lostlogin 4y ago
    Tech bro libertarians like to buy hideouts in New Zealand. I’ll keep an eye out.
  - Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
    He is working on his space station lair. From the looks of it, he is quite successful in building it.
klyrs 4y ago
Good word, it gets better from there: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593455727611215872 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593455727611215872 > And … we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol > Let that sink in … He literally cannot distinguish between good and bad attention. He still thinks he's winning this.
- recuter 4y ago
  That link works fine, site still up, and you yourself linked to it. He wins a chuckle out of me. :)
- memish 4y ago
  Highest DAU for xx% less overhead is literally winning. That's why people have lost their minds. They want him to fail so badly and they're getting the feeling that he won't, so cognitive dissonance is through the roof.
  - emptyparadise 4y ago
    If you're a power plant owner and want to maximize energy output, setting the plant on fire is certainly one way to release a lot of energy very quickly.
  - bsjaux628 4y ago
    That just tells me that (a) they were/are over provisioned so an increase in DAU was a rather simple thing, (b) computers are deterministic and if everybody quit then the system is at the same state as it was when it already had less DAU and was able to handle more. There is no engineering feat here brought by him.
  - guax 4y ago
    Twitter has not changed as a product. His Twitter blue has been a disaster so far. Hes getting attention for his much larger failure, being the worst tech company manager we've seen in a while. You cant take credit for positive outcomes if you done nothing yet.
joshstrange 4y ago
A top reply [0] that Elon replied to: > Elon, there's a bunch of us in SV who will come up tonight to help on the infra side to keep the site up. > If you need help just ask. As if you could just drive over to the Twitter HQ, grok how all the infrastructure works, and make/provide meaningful contributions/tweaks/upkeep.... tonight That's either a level of delusion that I can't imagine and/or someone who has no idea what they are talking about. I also can't imagine carrying water for or "simp-ing" for a billionaire, especially one who treats people so terribly (this "work yourself to the bone or resign" ultimatum was one of the more disgusting things I've seen in tech, I'm appalled at the people defending it as some genius move). Really I feel bad for the people who have no choice but to stay at Twitter, the H-1B's and the like. The brain drain is going to be (/already has been) massive and all that will be left are the people who have no choice, can't find a better/different job, or are true sycophants. None of that makes for a healthy work environment and isn't conducive to making good products. [0] https://twitter.com/MichaelGuimarin/status/1593415642111045633 https://twitter.com/MichaelGuimarin/status/15934156421110456...
- neuracnu 4y ago
  To be honest, this sounds like bloody red meat to any black or grey hats out there interested in having some infiltration fun. Why not show up at Twitter’s hq with a mouth full of smart sounding engineering babble and a backpack full of spycraft toys?
  - kibwen 4y ago
    Yep, Elon's paranoid about his current employees sabotaging him, but he should be just as paranoid about new job applicants looking to gain access and capitalize on the internal chaos.
    - nikau 4y ago
      Not gonna lie, if my current contract was ending id take a stint at twitter for a while just to be a fly on the wall for the insanity even knowing id get the arse at any time.
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barbazoo 4y ago

I'm glad he's having fun /s

kibwen 4y ago
I hope all the employees whose lives he's glibly and unnecessarily upended while having the audacity to meme about it are having half as much fun!
- barbazoo 4y ago
  My assumption is that he's unable to empathize.
- fbdab103 4y ago
  It has been half a year since this nonsense all began. I hope everyone at the company planned for upheaval and knew there was a (seemingly large) chance they would lose their job.
  - tehbeard 4y ago
    It seems that way, but the timescale is massively compressed compared to even the most pessimistic estimates. We were expecting a collapse in several months, not a few weeks.
- recuter 4y ago
  Does he or anybody owe them infinite amounts of money with no strings attached?

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justapassenger 4y ago

I sense “nobody knew social media can be so complicated” vibe.

bagels 4y ago
It's really funny, because his beliefs stated in public were so naive, and obviously belied the fact that he grossly underestimated what it takes to build and run a successful social media company.
- philosopher1234 4y ago
  All the musky users of hacker news seem to have vanished. Curious
  - dmonitor 4y ago
    I was admittedly giving him benefit of the doubt at first, because an active user of the website would understand how not to break it. I just struggle to rationalize any of the decisions he's made thus far.
    - philosopher1234 4y ago
      I think benefit of the doubt was somewhat warranted. Waiting to see what happens. But there were many who just completely dismissed the valid risks and criticisms people raised.
      - bagels 4y ago
        He was either: completely making wrong inferences and misunderstanding the statistics around the bots problem, or just lying to try to get out of the deal. Neither deserves benefit of the doubt.
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tjpnz 4y ago

Must be fun to truly believe you're a Bond villain.

dehrmann 4y ago
If someone has a secret volcano lair, it's Larry Ellison, but I'm sure Elon has something too.
- lostlogin 4y ago
  Tech bro libertarians like to buy hideouts in New Zealand. I’ll keep an eye out.
- Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
  He is working on his space station lair. From the looks of it, he is quite successful in building it.

klyrs 4y ago

Good word, it gets better from there: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593455727611215872 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593455727611215872 > And … we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol > Let that sink in … He literally cannot distinguish between good and bad attention. He still thinks he's winning this.

recuter 4y ago
That link works fine, site still up, and you yourself linked to it. He wins a chuckle out of me. :)
memish 4y ago
Highest DAU for xx% less overhead is literally winning. That's why people have lost their minds. They want him to fail so badly and they're getting the feeling that he won't, so cognitive dissonance is through the roof.
- emptyparadise 4y ago
  If you're a power plant owner and want to maximize energy output, setting the plant on fire is certainly one way to release a lot of energy very quickly.
- bsjaux628 4y ago
  That just tells me that (a) they were/are over provisioned so an increase in DAU was a rather simple thing, (b) computers are deterministic and if everybody quit then the system is at the same state as it was when it already had less DAU and was able to handle more. There is no engineering feat here brought by him.
- guax 4y ago
  Twitter has not changed as a product. His Twitter blue has been a disaster so far. Hes getting attention for his much larger failure, being the worst tech company manager we've seen in a while. You cant take credit for positive outcomes if you done nothing yet.

joshstrange 4y ago

A top reply [0] that Elon replied to: > Elon, there's a bunch of us in SV who will come up tonight to help on the infra side to keep the site up. > If you need help just ask. As if you could just drive over to the Twitter HQ, grok how all the infrastructure works, and make/provide meaningful contributions/tweaks/upkeep.... tonight That's either a level of delusion that I can't imagine and/or someone who has no idea what they are talking about. I also can't imagine carrying water for or "simp-ing" for a billionaire, especially one who treats people so terribly (this "work yourself to the bone or resign" ultimatum was one of the more disgusting things I've seen in tech, I'm appalled at the people defending it as some genius move). Really I feel bad for the people who have no choice but to stay at Twitter, the H-1B's and the like. The brain drain is going to be (/already has been) massive and all that will be left are the people who have no choice, can't find a better/different job, or are true sycophants. None of that makes for a healthy work environment and isn't conducive to making good products. [0] https://twitter.com/MichaelGuimarin/status/1593415642111045633 https://twitter.com/MichaelGuimarin/status/15934156421110456...

neuracnu 4y ago
To be honest, this sounds like bloody red meat to any black or grey hats out there interested in having some infiltration fun. Why not show up at Twitter’s hq with a mouth full of smart sounding engineering babble and a backpack full of spycraft toys?
- kibwen 4y ago
  Yep, Elon's paranoid about his current employees sabotaging him, but he should be just as paranoid about new job applicants looking to gain access and capitalize on the internal chaos.
  - nikau 4y ago
    Not gonna lie, if my current contract was ending id take a stint at twitter for a while just to be a fly on the wall for the insanity even knowing id get the arse at any time.

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