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> I don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish. Have you followed his twitter account? Watch his interviews. Read his SEC filings? He's been pretty op

> I don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish. Have you followed his twitter account? Watch his interviews. Read his SEC filings? He's been pretty open about his intentions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Corp. > Everything he’s done to Twitter carries the foul stench of Death by Private Equity. No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam That's not what 'Death by Private Equity' is or looks like. > and a weird desperate-looking rebrand. Desperate weird rebrand? The rebrand happens months ago. It's not a new thing. "The concept for X solidified in October 2022, when Musk tweeted that acquiring Twitter is "an accelerant to creating X, the everything app"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Corp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Corp. Elon is doing what exactly what he said he was going to do but you are twisting into some bizarre 'Death by Private Equity' that doesn't make sense because you don't like elon? Isn't that the gist of it? The anti-elon pr campaign is no different than the anti-zuckerburg campaign.

rvz 3y ago
> Elon is doing what exactly what he said he was going to do but you are twisting into some bizarre 'Death by Private Equity' that doesn't make sense because you don't like elon? Isn't that the gist of it? Exactly. It was going to eventually be rebranded as soon as he acquired it. Not sure why HNers here are seemingly very surprised about this and still screaming at the changes? But it is quite funny to see lots of HNers here already showing signs of memory loss in less than a year since he made that comment with lots of emotional reactions to the news. > The anti-elon pr campaign is no different than the anti-zuckerburg campaign. Absolutely. I remember when the 'anti-zuckerburg' campaign of HNers and the media all screamed and attempted to prothesize the death of Meta Platforms when it's stock plunged to $90. Even before the layoffs, Zuckerberg was the 'villain' somehow and is somehow called by the most angriest of people a 'Nazi'. Now it is 200% up in less than a year and now the media's opinions have changed like the weather and are now cheering him again. Today, Elon is somehow now the 'villain' of the year because of the layoffs and buying Twitter and now they are even angrier that Twitter / X did not 'die' immediately before 2023 as incorrectly predicted. So every speed bump Elon makes to Twitter / X is now 100x magnified from now on by the media. Either way, the predictions of both the deaths of Twitter / X and Meta Platforms by the media and on HN has always been greatly exaggerated.

rvz 3y ago

> Elon is doing what exactly what he said he was going to do but you are twisting into some bizarre 'Death by Private Equity' that doesn't make sense because you don't like elon? Isn't that the gist of it? Exactly. It was going to eventually be rebranded as soon as he acquired it. Not sure why HNers here are seemingly very surprised about this and still screaming at the changes? But it is quite funny to see lots of HNers here already showing signs of memory loss in less than a year since he made that comment with lots of emotional reactions to the news. > The anti-elon pr campaign is no different than the anti-zuckerburg campaign. Absolutely. I remember when the 'anti-zuckerburg' campaign of HNers and the media all screamed and attempted to prothesize the death of Meta Platforms when it's stock plunged to $90. Even before the layoffs, Zuckerberg was the 'villain' somehow and is somehow called by the most angriest of people a 'Nazi'. Now it is 200% up in less than a year and now the media's opinions have changed like the weather and are now cheering him again. Today, Elon is somehow now the 'villain' of the year because of the layoffs and buying Twitter and now they are even angrier that Twitter / X did not 'die' immediately before 2023 as incorrectly predicted. So every speed bump Elon makes to Twitter / X is now 100x magnified from now on by the media. Either way, the predictions of both the deaths of Twitter / X and Meta Platforms by the media and on HN has always been greatly exaggerated.