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The fact that he can’t lead without doing these idiotic polls shows that he’s not fit to lead twitter. The whole point of being an exec is that you make the bi
by louthy 4y ago
The fact that he can’t lead without doing these idiotic polls shows that he’s not fit to lead twitter.
The whole point of being an exec is that you make the big difficult decisions, not defer them to a mass of people who couldn’t possibly understand the nuance of any one decision.
- prawn 4y agoI agree, but I could see a mode where he was livestreaming insights into the days of a billionaire, and taking some direction via vote - whether what to have for breakfast, or as feedback on a Twitter feature. But using it as a face-saving crutch on divisive topics is off-putting (at least to me).
- 0x4d464d48 4y agoYep. Delegation is part of the job but you don't get to delegate consequential executive decisicions to something as capricious as an internet poll...
- fma 4y agoI stand by a previous comment a few days ago, on another Musk and Twitter saga that he's trying to drive traffic to Twitter to increase engagement, users and get more ad revenue. It's how a narcissist would do it. This poll is all over the news now and there were earlier comments of signsups sky high now. I try to stick to paywalled, informative news (Financial Times, WSJ) and if they're covering it I'm sure the rest are...and a cursor check of cnn.com and foxnews.com, Control + F shows several articles in front page...