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> What's most surprising it seems he has no thesis for the company or how it can be made better or what was so terrible about it. Have you ever used Twitter?
by bboygravity 4y ago
> What's most surprising it seems he has no thesis for the company or how it can be made better or what was so terrible about it.
Have you ever used Twitter?
To someone who has used Twitter in the past weeks this reads like deliberate trolling.
Twitter was absolutely terrible to use and the pace of noticible change within days/weeks under Elon is mind blowing to me. He's clearly going fast with things like getting rid of (shadow-)banning for no apparent reason, getting rid of banning anything of a certain political flavor, making Twitter faster (both in browser as well as on Android), getting rid of fake scammer accounts who deliberately impersonated famous people and companies to scam people, getting rid of bots and spam which where a HUGE problem (still are until the transition to verified is done) and so on.
I mean getting rid of politically flavored sensorship alone will have a massive impact globally for something like Twitter. That alone was obviously very terrible to many people before Musk.
PS: since you said you don't understand what his vision is. My best guess: it's to create a platform that competes with click-bait sponsored propaganda journalism. In the form of citizen journalism on Twitter. I think it could work and I also think there's a huge need for it as traditional journalism is dead in my opinion.
- astrange 4y ago> He's clearly going fast with things like getting rid of (shadow-)banning for no apparent reason (He thinks this is happening because he reads his replies and a lot of cranks convinced they're shadow banned are @ing him.) > getting rid of fake scammer accounts who deliberately impersonated famous people and companies to scam people (He made it worse and the big advertisers canceled their campaigns after their stock falling due to fake announcements.)