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Don’t know if this has been linked but awesome thread.
https://twitter.com/joshuaphilll/status/1590696859869536256?s=46&t=iQep7HRLXJ-R0epQHIEiWw
'NFT Profile Pictures'
Tells you everything you need to know about the direction of travel.
To steal an old joke, I think Elon's going to make a small fortune off Twitter.
Thanks colp... great thread.
This one tickled me:
https://twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/status/1590532150792974336?s=20&t=U8Qla2YAbMNnxA4TFdeRAw
Especially as Musk once claimed that Grimes was an invention of his own imagination (don't quote me, that was from this week's Frankie Boyle's New World Order).... a reminder that even his imaginary partner saw sense and left him.
I’m loving the Rudi Giuliani ones!
Whilst it's a bin fire, at least plenty of Twitter wags have seen fit to make is quite an amusing one.
Parody Tesla account.
“Everyone’s talking about Twitter going up in flames but our cars did that before it was cool."
This a high quality dumpster fire. Best description if it so far is $8chan. Shows just how difficult it is to keep a crowd under control when they basically just want mischief
And can we have tags back please? #VOLVOFORSALE
Just to be clear, Twitter senior secured bank loans- the top of the capital stack- at $0.60 implies that Twitter- for which @elonmusk paid $44 billion-
is nowwas always worth less than $8 billion.
Fixed that for whoever wrote it...
I don’t really G-a-S about Twitter but I’m enjoying this ‘harmless’ carnage.
It's nice that it's settled the religion question once and for all- surprised to find myself on the wrong side but now that twitter has verified Jesus Christ, I can hardly argue
Eli Lilly taking an online kicking over their insulin pricing after another great fake tweet. Trolling turned activism
https://twitter.com/LillyPad/status/1590813806275469333?s=20&t=qOqcoabToX1b90RxcsphCQ
I imagine corporate lawyers are have a clusterspaff over the possibilities
"Just to be clear, Twitter senior secured bank loans- the top of the capital stack- at $0.60 implies that Twitter- for which @elonmusk paid $44 billion- is now worth less than $8 billion."
Musk burning through the bucks quicker than Truss.
All pretty uncomfortable for anyone invested in Tesla either directly or indirectly - SMIT, for example - as musk will, I think, be selling off more shares which will drag down the share price.
"All pretty uncomfortable for anyone invested in Tesla either directly or indirectly"
Yep. That tweet about Paul Pelosi wasn't too clever either, Musk relies on a fair few government contracts and Biden has flagged up potential technological security issues relating to Misk's dealings with China, the Saudi's etc.
I'm guessing Musk was betting on the red wave that never materialised. Twitter's predicament could soon be the least of his problems.
After all this chaos perhaps Twitter needs a re-brand. Something like 'Truth Twitter' should do the job, either that or one of the platforms could buy the other out, I hear they're both going pretty cheap right now.
Perhaps now would be a good time to give Trump his account back, with the Georgia run off in the pipeline it would send the Republican party nuts (I mean even more nuts) if the covfefe man was given his phone back.
Looks like shit just got real with the blue tick crazy.
https://twitter.com/rafaelshimunov/status/1591133819918114816?t=Sxu4rkYVs45R_Hees4J4dw&s=19
I'm by no means an expert on these things, but I think Elon might be out of his depth here. Blue ticks are going crazy:
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A salutory lesson in the risks of mistaking money for talent.
Happens all the time - this country has long mistaken an Eton/Oxbridge education for an ability to run a Government!
EM isn't that different; somehow imagines himself to be far more clever than he actually is.
Spending $44bn and then sitting there responding directly to tweets seems like he's just bought himself an incredibly expensive customer service job. One that he's really bad at!
Oops. Sounds alot like Twitter may die soon unless something really changes. No bad thing tbh.
EM isn’t that different; somehow imagines himself to be far more clever than he actually is.
Quite a common trait in pot head fantasists I find.
After all this chaos perhaps Twitter needs a re-brand. Something like ‘Truth Twitter’ should do the job,
I think the platform should just be re-branded as 'Musk' and user's posts would become 'Secretions'
Some one pretending lockheed Martin on Twitter saying they where suspending sales to Saudi looks like it took millions off the stock trading revenue.
Shame if someone did it too Tesla.
Not supporting lockheed btw
Shame if someone did it too Tesla.
I think Musk is way ahead of you on that front
I’m by no means an expert on these things, but I think Elon might be out of his depth here.
He's been out of his depth for a long, long time. He proclaimed himself to be a tech visionary genius engineer, but he has always been much more about hype than actual engineering. The cave diver episode should have been a warning that he was just an idiot with a big mouth and poor judgement. He's a lot like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin - they proclaim themselves to be strategic geniuses playing multi-dimensional chess, but are really just cheap bullies who bulldoze their way to the top and then crumble when reality finally catches up with them.
think the platform should just be re-branded as ‘Musk’ and user’s posts would become ‘Secretions’
Nice.
Some one pretending lockheed Martin on Twitter saying they where suspending sales to Saudi looks like it took millions off the stock trading revenue.
Its going well across the board.
Thread of "companies" dubious tweets
I'm actually enjoying the parody that Musk has unleashed, although I do block anything that is likely to link to the toxic wasteland side of things. I do have a feeling that in 10 years time, we will just remember Twitter as one of those bizarre episodes in the history of the internet that are impossible to explain to young people. (I once tried to explain to some teenagers about the Microsoft Paperclip assistant, and the blank disbelief on their faces was priceless.)
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He’s a lot like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin – they proclaim themselves to be strategic geniuses playing multi-dimensional chess, but are really just cheap bullies who bulldoze their way to the top and then crumble when reality finally catches up with them.
The more I see of the absolute mess he's got himself into, the more I think that's entirely correct.
https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1591703938159775745?t=E-yNzCdUXUX-7MOjYyVmBg&s=19
He's like a kid begging for a Meccano set cos the pictures make it look cool but when he finally gets it, he's got no idea of how any of it works so breaks all the bits.
TBH, I'm not certain that the fake accounts on some of those companies wasn't coordinated action by a group. I mean, not only are they funny, but any campaign that manages to wipe millions of the value of such esteemed corporations as Eli Lilly, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Coco Cola is alright by me.
…………..as long as your pension fund isn’t invested in them……..
...or Tesla or Twitter...
No ones pension is in twitter thank God. Not directly anyway via musk's iffy bank deals maybe?
There was a funny bit in Matt Levine's newsletter yesterday explaining how the banks lent Musk 13bn for the Twitter deal, with the intention of selling (some of) the debt on to investors.
Unfortunately, Musk then spent 6 months going on about how Twitter was a massive fraud full of bots, and since taking ownership, he now keeps saying it's barely 5 minutes away from bankruptcy and he needs to fire everyone.
So obviously, no one's touching the debt with a bargepole and the banks are stuck with it!
So obviously, no one’s touching the debt with a bargepole and the banks are stuck with it!
To be fair to Musk the reason he spent the six months badmouthing twitter was because he overpaid just before the markets crashed and so was desperately trying to get out of it/negotiate a lower price. So the banks would have been taking a major hit anyway.
Admittedly he has changed it from a major hit to a steamroller.
Following on from more layoffs amongst moderators.. Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move (and subsequently gets sacked by the big chunk of spam Elon).
Starting to think he isn't bothered about the $44bnand just wants to burn it down out of spite / dented ego.
(and subsequently gets sacked by the big chunk of spam Elon).
Good to see free speech absolutism in action.
Starting to think he isn’t bothered about the $44bnand just wants to burn it down out of spite / dented ego.
He doesnt seem to handle criticism well and I think he confused his echo chamber of fans on twitter with the actual entire twitter userbase.