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I vaguely feel like someone (ahem) is trying to get us to riot over silly things, as an experiment. It doesn’t make any sense.
by b33j0r 4y ago
I 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.
- KerrAvon 4y agoTo be clear, he signed a firm contract to buy it; the courts only (would have) forced him to honor the contract he signed.
- wpietri 4y agoOh, for sure. But given his behavior, either he didn't believe it was a firm contract or he just thought firm contracts applied to other people, not him. Either way, I'm sure it's a very stressful experience. Stress that he has richly earned, I must add. I just think it helps explain why he's flailing around with such vigor.
- AviationAtom 4y agoI think it's worthy to note that the markets declined significantly between when he signaled a desire to buy Twitter and when the court forced his hand. I don't think he wanted to back out, he only sought adjusted pricing, based on the significant decline in stock price.
- rubendinho 4y agoThat’s not reasonable. Any deal like this takes months to close and any serious buyer takes on the full market risk.
- naruhodo 4y agoIt's a shame he didn't choose to fix the 160 character limit instead. But that would cost money, I guess.
- nxmnxm99 4y agoThat's what it always was. Just instead of what's bothering Musk, it was what's bothering Yoel, Vijaya and San Francisco Liberals This is the problem of having core global communications infrastructure be centralized
- atoav 4y agoI don't know, I think speech on twitter was way more predictable before. Now you need a weather report to figure out what Elons current mood is and an oracle to figure out what you're therefore not allowed to post.
- HyperSane 4y agoWhich is not a good way to handle a $44 billion investment.
- sokoloff 4y agoOr a $20-30B investment that you paid $44B for…
- TravelTechGuy 4y agoMakes even more sense if you treat it as a foreign hostile takeover. A quick look at some of the funding sources for the $44b, and the distinct direction Twitter took post-acquisition suggest (to me at least - personal opinion) that Musk is promoting certain (alt-right) agendas. It could also be that the goal is to burn Twitter to the ground, as it has been touted by the US government as a “freedom tool”. I can easily imagine Mohammed Bone Saw solving potential outcries of future heinous acts, by making sure there’s no outlet to discuss them. Again, just my private opinion.
- veidr 4y agoI had similar thoughts. It doesn't quite add up all the way to me, but almost; it looks like an act of sabotage. The thought experiment is: if you wanted to destroy Twitter, what would you differently? I mean you could do even worse, but... not if you didn't want to make it obvious. The "entitled born-rich manboy can't deal" is obviously a solid cover, because almost all of us already believe it!
- b0sk 4y ago100%
- 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.