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Twitter was always his weakness and now he's ODing on it. Like a crack addict in charge of a cartel superlab

DonHopkins 4y ago
It's bound to end just like Scarface, he'll go to war tooting and tweeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuygJnnyiYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuygJnnyiYI
- galaxyLogic 4y ago
  They say money affects people like drugs. They get high on it. But this kind of erratic behavior makes me wonder, maybe he's on drugs.
woodruffw 4y ago
This seems like the right place for me to speculate idly: I've often wondered about sufficient margins for social engagement on these sorts of things. For example: how would you or I behave if, no matter what we did, over 50,000 people immediately reaffirmed us online? Would it take 50,000, or would 10,000 be enough? 5,000, 1,000? This isn't mean to exculpate Musk: he's encouraged this behavior for years, and his own behavior long predates mega-engagement by his fans on social media. And still I can't help but wonder how many of us would be able to similarly contort ourselves, if so much affirmation was on the line.
- me_again 4y ago
  "To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and remain absolutely sober". -Logan Pearsall Smith
- saalweachter 4y ago
  Honestly having 5-10 people reaffirming everything you say or do can be catastrophic, if it's the wrong 5 or 10.
- pardon_me 4y ago
  Charges raised for fraud mid 2024 Arrested before 2026
- arlcode 4y ago
  I feel like the fact that he is evidently posting without a filter and probably reading the endless streams of meaningless confirmation is extra damaging. We all sometimes ridicule the stilted corporate speech of some rich people and their reluctance to appear in public, but increasingly I feel like some of them do it to not fall into the social media trap. Having a public team write your statements and asking them to provide a weekly/monthly report on the good and the bad seems like a working strategy. Those people are doing their job and you can even employ different teams to get a more nuanced view while you yourself can be more distanced and collected. Of course Elon Musk specifically is s social media addict who seems to enjoy being praised by sycophants no matter what he does. He chooses this.
- awb 4y ago
  Wasn’t there a social media platform that tried hiding the like count on content?
  - fragmede 4y ago
    You mean like this one?
    - awb 4y ago
      You can still see your own points on HN

It's bound to end just like Scarface, he'll go to war tooting and tweeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuygJnnyiYI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuygJnnyiYI

galaxyLogic 4y ago
They say money affects people like drugs. They get high on it. But this kind of erratic behavior makes me wonder, maybe he's on drugs.

woodruffw 4y ago

This seems like the right place for me to speculate idly: I've often wondered about sufficient margins for social engagement on these sorts of things. For example: how would you or I behave if, no matter what we did, over 50,000 people immediately reaffirmed us online? Would it take 50,000, or would 10,000 be enough? 5,000, 1,000? This isn't mean to exculpate Musk: he's encouraged this behavior for years, and his own behavior long predates mega-engagement by his fans on social media. And still I can't help but wonder how many of us would be able to similarly contort ourselves, if so much affirmation was on the line.

me_again 4y ago
"To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and remain absolutely sober". -Logan Pearsall Smith
saalweachter 4y ago
Honestly having 5-10 people reaffirming everything you say or do can be catastrophic, if it's the wrong 5 or 10.
pardon_me 4y ago
Charges raised for fraud mid 2024 Arrested before 2026
arlcode 4y ago
I feel like the fact that he is evidently posting without a filter and probably reading the endless streams of meaningless confirmation is extra damaging. We all sometimes ridicule the stilted corporate speech of some rich people and their reluctance to appear in public, but increasingly I feel like some of them do it to not fall into the social media trap. Having a public team write your statements and asking them to provide a weekly/monthly report on the good and the bad seems like a working strategy. Those people are doing their job and you can even employ different teams to get a more nuanced view while you yourself can be more distanced and collected. Of course Elon Musk specifically is s social media addict who seems to enjoy being praised by sycophants no matter what he does. He chooses this.
awb 4y ago
Wasn’t there a social media platform that tried hiding the like count on content?
- fragmede 4y ago
  You mean like this one?
  - awb 4y ago
    You can still see your own points on HN