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Make it awful for long enough so that when you make it better, you're a genius who saved Twitter.

by JustSomeNobody 4y ago

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phowat 4y ago
Or so that when you finally pull the plug, people don't complain too much.
olalonde 4y ago
The mental gymnastics of Musk haters are next level. If Twitter dies, he is dumb and incompetent. If he saves it, it was all just part of his evil plan. You got all outcomes covered, great.
- JustSomeNobody 4y ago
  I can't help it if he's very obvious.
- samtp 4y ago
  Either way he is still the guy who publicly mocked his own employee for having muscular dystrophy, offered another employee a horse if they gave him a handjob, called a cave diver who saved a bunch of children a pedo, spread conspiracy theories about an elderly man who was beaten by an intruder with a hammer.... He's not a good person.
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  - olalonde 4y ago
    I didn't say he was a good person. But it's obvious that he's not incompetent and that he's just trying his best to salvage his investment. The idea that he is intentionally driving Twitter into the ground is beyond ridiculous.
    - anigbrowl 4y ago
      According to himself it has fallen 50% in value since he bought it. If he just wanted to salvage his investment he'd tweet once a week about about features or metrics. As it is he spends a lot of his time shitposting and making facially absurd claims.
      - olalonde 4y ago
        But he does tweet multiple times per week about Twitter features. I can count at least 7 such tweets in the past week.
        anigbrowl 4y ago
        Right...and I'm saying that if he tweeted less and delivered more, he'd be taken more seriously than he is. Hype/salesmanship is part of business, but in the case of SpaceX and Tesla, they're delivering bespoke and high-end manufactured products. People are willing to wait for infrequent product delivery while tolerating sometimes-fanciful claims of great potential. Twitter is different because it's a real-time mass communication platform, so the hype is received and processed differently. And outside of his fanbase, few people seem impressed with the changes as manifested so far and this is reflected in the response of advertisers. Long tweets seem to work OK and offer a clear, obvious user benefit. I'm having difficulty thinking of any other examples.
      - xeromal 4y ago
        I don't think I've seen Elon mentioned that twitter is an investment to him.
  - scottyah 4y ago
    Do you believe him to be less "good" than the average person? What's the scale here?
    - samtp 4y ago
      If you think the average person engages in all of the behaviors listed above, you should start hanging around different people.
LightBug1 4y ago
Yeah, Musk does have that ridiculous saviour complex ... "Oh Tesla was hours away from going bankrupt" yada yada Or the bizarre interview with him in the dark ... I don't believe his bleatings for a minute ...

Make it awful for long enough so that when you make it better, you're a genius who saved Twitter.

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phowat 4y ago

Or so that when you finally pull the plug, people don't complain too much.

olalonde 4y ago

The mental gymnastics of Musk haters are next level. If Twitter dies, he is dumb and incompetent. If he saves it, it was all just part of his evil plan. You got all outcomes covered, great.

JustSomeNobody 4y ago
I can't help it if he's very obvious.
samtp 4y ago
Either way he is still the guy who publicly mocked his own employee for having muscular dystrophy, offered another employee a horse if they gave him a handjob, called a cave diver who saved a bunch of children a pedo, spread conspiracy theories about an elderly man who was beaten by an intruder with a hammer.... He's not a good person.
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- olalonde 4y ago
  I didn't say he was a good person. But it's obvious that he's not incompetent and that he's just trying his best to salvage his investment. The idea that he is intentionally driving Twitter into the ground is beyond ridiculous.
  - anigbrowl 4y ago
    According to himself it has fallen 50% in value since he bought it. If he just wanted to salvage his investment he'd tweet once a week about about features or metrics. As it is he spends a lot of his time shitposting and making facially absurd claims.
    - olalonde 4y ago
      But he does tweet multiple times per week about Twitter features. I can count at least 7 such tweets in the past week.
      - anigbrowl 4y ago
        Right...and I'm saying that if he tweeted less and delivered more, he'd be taken more seriously than he is. Hype/salesmanship is part of business, but in the case of SpaceX and Tesla, they're delivering bespoke and high-end manufactured products. People are willing to wait for infrequent product delivery while tolerating sometimes-fanciful claims of great potential. Twitter is different because it's a real-time mass communication platform, so the hype is received and processed differently. And outside of his fanbase, few people seem impressed with the changes as manifested so far and this is reflected in the response of advertisers. Long tweets seem to work OK and offer a clear, obvious user benefit. I'm having difficulty thinking of any other examples.
    - xeromal 4y ago
      I don't think I've seen Elon mentioned that twitter is an investment to him.
- scottyah 4y ago
  Do you believe him to be less "good" than the average person? What's the scale here?
  - samtp 4y ago
    If you think the average person engages in all of the behaviors listed above, you should start hanging around different people.

LightBug1 4y ago

Yeah, Musk does have that ridiculous saviour complex ... "Oh Tesla was hours away from going bankrupt" yada yada Or the bizarre interview with him in the dark ... I don't believe his bleatings for a minute ...