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This does not sound like a reasonable way to build trust between brands and Twitter. It truly boggles the mind why Twitter/Musk/wtv is so aggressively attackin

This does not sound like a reasonable way to build trust between brands and Twitter. It truly boggles the mind why Twitter/Musk/wtv is so aggressively attacking the goodwill of advertisers and brands with this whole blue check and state/public/government media debacle.

SamoyedFurFluff 4y ago
I’m pretty sure Musk is not a good manager, but he can select good operators for his vision. Tesla and SpaceX’s successes I believe at this point should be attributed to their other executives and leadership, with Musk just being the marketer for a bold idea and not the actual executor of that vision. Musk is hands on with Twitter and it is a disaster.
- rjzzleep 4y ago
  Twitter was managed well before? They were burning money on useless people like no tomorrow, hardly rolled out any new useful features and spent all their time policing the platform. Whatever Musk is it's certainly not worse off then before. NPR threw a tantrum because of a label that wasn't the same as what Chinese and Russian media had, which they disingenuously claimed was the same. Then they threw a tantrum when Musk in response removed all labels from ALL media organizations. Musk is certainly not building trust with the advertisers, but neither are the advertisers acting in good faith. It was also quite the spectacle to see all those blue checkmarks flip out at losing something they got for free to the extent that they went around saying that peoples lives would end because of it.
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  - Fauntleroy 4y ago
    The only thing Musk has achieved at twitter is accelerating the exodus of users from the platform, and the fracturing of the "microblogging" space. If things continue as they are now, there won't be much of value left at Twitter.
  - badwolf 4y ago
    Fun fact: You can think the current owner and manager of Twitter is insane and running Twitter in an insane way, without also simultaneously thinking the previous managers were running things in a perfect way without any errors or issues.
    - nmz 4y ago
      Without a comparison, then the only conclusion is that Twitter simply cannot be run "correctly" by anybody, given that everyone has a vision of how it should be.
      - Arainach 4y ago
        That's a false dichotomy. Saying that neither of two examples is perfect does not mean that one was not clearly better, and does not mean that the task is impossible.
nashashmi 4y ago
Billionaires are unreasonable. The brand is built. He is not interested in brand building like a startup. He is interested in removing "tyrannical" cruft.

SamoyedFurFluff 4y ago

I’m pretty sure Musk is not a good manager, but he can select good operators for his vision. Tesla and SpaceX’s successes I believe at this point should be attributed to their other executives and leadership, with Musk just being the marketer for a bold idea and not the actual executor of that vision. Musk is hands on with Twitter and it is a disaster.

rjzzleep 4y ago
Twitter was managed well before? They were burning money on useless people like no tomorrow, hardly rolled out any new useful features and spent all their time policing the platform. Whatever Musk is it's certainly not worse off then before. NPR threw a tantrum because of a label that wasn't the same as what Chinese and Russian media had, which they disingenuously claimed was the same. Then they threw a tantrum when Musk in response removed all labels from ALL media organizations. Musk is certainly not building trust with the advertisers, but neither are the advertisers acting in good faith. It was also quite the spectacle to see all those blue checkmarks flip out at losing something they got for free to the extent that they went around saying that peoples lives would end because of it.
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- Fauntleroy 4y ago
  The only thing Musk has achieved at twitter is accelerating the exodus of users from the platform, and the fracturing of the "microblogging" space. If things continue as they are now, there won't be much of value left at Twitter.
- badwolf 4y ago
  Fun fact: You can think the current owner and manager of Twitter is insane and running Twitter in an insane way, without also simultaneously thinking the previous managers were running things in a perfect way without any errors or issues.
  - nmz 4y ago
    Without a comparison, then the only conclusion is that Twitter simply cannot be run "correctly" by anybody, given that everyone has a vision of how it should be.
    - Arainach 4y ago
      That's a false dichotomy. Saying that neither of two examples is perfect does not mean that one was not clearly better, and does not mean that the task is impossible.

nashashmi 4y ago

Billionaires are unreasonable. The brand is built. He is not interested in brand building like a startup. He is interested in removing "tyrannical" cruft.