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> I suspect that there was another name there before Who ? Musk is unique in being obsessed with being liked and relevant. All of the other social CEOs includ
by threeseed 4y ago
> I suspect that there was another name there before
Who ? Musk is unique in being obsessed with being liked and relevant.
All of the other social CEOs including Porag and Jake have never really cared that much. And none of them participated in contributing content anything close to what Musk does.
- mattl 4y agoI miss Jake
- nailer 4y agoWhy is Musk obsessed with being liked? There was a hoax last month about the algorithm being tweaked to make everyone view Elon’s tweets which was provably false. It is very much likely to be the CEO a company wanting to understand his companies product.
- Fuzzwah 4y agoHard to see the difference between that or someone so obsessed with twitter that he paid a huge premium to own it.
- nailer 4y agoSomeone wants to measure their business after paying what was a reasonable figure when they offered it, but that became overpriced once the market changed. Sounds like fairly rational behaviour. HN isn’t a site for making unfounded personal attacks on others.
- jdub 4y agoIt is very difficult to describe anything Elon has done to Twitter since (and including) buying it as "rational".
- somenameforme 4y agoAs a person who occasionally uses Twitter, but has no interest in having an account, he has dramatically improved the experience. Before he took over it was made impossible to view replies from a user, users were spammed with popup login dialogues that could not be closed with a single click, and more. I expect Twitter probably drove more people away from the site with all this nonsense, than they coerced into registering. I also think many of the changes to make Twitter more open, such as now open sourcing the recommendation algorithm, publishing view counts (which indirectly makes it clear when something or somebody has been shadow banned), and more are all big steps forward in creating a much better and open service for all. Really most of every change he's pursued since taking over Twitter, from my perspective at least, seems to have been big steps forward. What would you say has been irrational?
- coldtea 4y ago>Who ? Musk is unique in being obsessed with being liked and relevant. This is a meta-level bias!