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Paul’s unbanned now.
by sillysaurusx 4y ago
Paul’s unbanned now.
- Hoyadonis 4y agoAdditionally, Elon Musk just tweeted asking if he should resign as head of Twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097
- dang 4y agoRelated ongoing thread: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34045423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34045423
- andromaton 4y agoAnd it shows Paul is followed by 2857 people, following none. All this random minor chaos is a little saddening. Eggs have to be broken to make omelette. This looks like sloppy cooking.
- sulam 4y agoThis is common post ban, it's not as simple as a flag.
- b33j0r 4y agoI vaguely feel like someone (ahem) is trying to get us to riot over silly things, as an experiment. It doesn’t make any sense.
- TillE 4y agoMusk's entire Twitter reign makes complete sense if you just view it as one thin-skinned guy arbitrarily lashing out. There's no secret plan, he's just trying to "fix" whatever personally bothers him.
- b33j0r 4y agoOh you’re right. It just makes analysis like, dumb. Making piles of money, inspiring a lot of people, while holding a questionable vision just isn’t something reactionary people do, usually. It’s something con-men do, but they usually try to save their image. Not go all Kurt Cobain on their kingdom… Indeed. This one is funky. I’m open to outliers. Good call.
- gerdesj 4y agoTo be fair, the bloke is just human. Unfortunately we don't need humans running big old corps and media outfits or even simple businesses. I'm not sure how you can have a "charismatic" individual run something like Twitter. Your charisma might be my anathema but a PR department waffling platitudes will probably work. A dictator will always want to dabble. We are looking at some fundamentals here. Twitter run by whim and not rule. The world's media has basically gone all in on Twitter but it needs to get a grip. I suspect the best thing for Twitter is to exclude the owner from participating. We all have far bigger fish to fry.
- foogazi 4y ago> To be fair, the bloke is just human. How many orders of magnitude is his NW from yours ? He’ll be ok no need to feel sorry for Elon
- snovv_crash 4y agoNet worth doesn't make someone less human.
- wpietri 4y agoFor sure. And I think the lashing out is driven by some things that are legitimately painful. He only briefly wanted to buy Twitter; the courts were going to force him to buy it. And the main source of his wealth, TSLA, has gone from a peak of nearly $400 per share to down around $150. Unlike Tesla and SpaceX, where his has competent domain experts running things he knows less about, he has already fired everybody at Twitter with a backbone. Because he uses Twitter, he clearly (and wrongly) believes he understands it just fine. Twitter's also all software and mostly consumer-facing, so changes are both immediate and obvious. So I think with Twitter there's very little between his impulses and immediate impact on hundreds of millions of people.
- squarefoot 4y agoPossibly, an algorithm banned him just for writing the word "mastodon", then someone noticed and reversed the ban just because he's famous, to avoid public backlash.
- Tepix 4y agoThe co-investors into Twitter must be less than happy.
- wnevets 4y agoWill everyone who argued that paulg broke the rules with his last tweet now admit they were wrong or will they now argue the unbanning isn't justified?
- seanp2k2 4y agoLogical gotchas don’t work with people who just ignore contradiction and hypocrisy.