Elon Musk

Apologies @kerley
I miss read your “I” as “I’d”, which put your response into a different context 😁

No problem.

I see musk is tweeting out nonsense again

It’s the paedo cave diver thing all over again…

Dear Twitter advertisers, Elon Musk just shared a fringe post falsely claiming that Mr. Pelosi was gay, drunk, and tied up by a male prostitute. The trolls have been posting this false claim all over my TikTok comments as well. This is what you’re buying. pic.twitter.com/5DOWTsoqo7

— John Aravosis ?????️‍? (@aravosis) October 30, 2022

The end of a bell.
Mid terms coming up in the usa too

Maybe **** features should print his tweets out and get someone to peer review them.

@somafunk

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation

Excellent article, thanks 👍

I hope Twitter gets absolutely annihilated by the EU and governments if Musk carries on using it as his personal BS mouthpiece, before he does some serious damage. Would love to see his reaction to a few $multi-billion fines

Elon Musk tweeting far right conspiracy theories regarding the Pelosi break-in and assault, perhaps he’ll get banned from his own site.

What happens when the owner of the platform spreads misinformation? https://t.co/SsmgsAHmpo

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) October 30, 2022

At least now it’s easy to tweet him and tell him exactly what sort of ***hole he is, without, apparently, having your account canned for doing so. Allegedly. It’ll be interesting to see just how long the freedom to post anything lasts, when a lot of vitriol is aimed at him.

He’d be just the sort of **** who’d get the developers to build him his own ban hammer. Despite having minions with minions you know he’ll just sit there getting arsey, banning people himself.

World’s richest man begging for pennies.

this is literally pathetic lol pic.twitter.com/jkMe7voVwx

— cait (@punished_cait) November 1, 2022

Should have thought of that before blowing $44bn on the company?

Yeah, I’m no business genius, but even I can work out that you need to check that sort of shit out before buying a company for $44B

Elon is a helmet.

Haterz.

He’s going to make everything amazing social media people said so.

I can’t help but think he is having his very own Putin invading Ukraine moment here.

Putin has gone from being considered some sort of strategic genius to now being just an utterly ruthless tyrant that was in the right place at the right time.

This had just popped up on the BBC webby too.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63495125

just so were all clear, Musk is firing half of Twitter's staff, including huge swaths of their content moderation capability, four days before opening up identity-confirmation-free verification to the whole website which will happen…the day before a national election.

— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) November 4, 2022

Anyone else just deleted their Twitter account?  Wasn’t that good before and I can’t see Musk improving it.

I think it’s time for a genuine alternative to step up. I wonder what all those people fired and their CEO could do with $44bn.

No I’m enjoying the show too much, though it’s a shame it’s costing a lot of innocent people their livelihoods.

Wonder how strong the anti-compete clause is with the now jettisoned founders/employees? I can see an alternative springing up pretty quickly (doesn’t feel like the technology build is that onerous tbh and outside of moderation not really sure why it would need a huge team?)

Wonder how strong the anti-compete clause is with the now jettisoned founders/employees? I can see an alternative springing up pretty quickly

There have been plenty of alternatives. Its the problem of getting that critical mass of users rather than technical issues (although running at that scale isnt going to be easy).
There is also the problem of making it profitable.
Be interesting to see if Mastodon can get anywhere.

I’m wondering a few things, if Elon thinks 4000 of his staff are ‘fake staff’….?

Also how much of a saving a company that turns over 1.3 billion a year will make by removing half its wage bill?

Why the richest man in the world would buy a buisness that’s never made any money, for an extortionate amount of money, would do so in the first place – but his recent tweets about neurons and cyber networks etc have kinda answered that for me, I just now think he is absolutely 100% completely nuts.

I just can’t see a return on his investment.

So, again, he totally ignores employment rights over there. He should have given employees 60 days notice if carrying out a mass redundancy.

What a ****.

He is paper rich though.
Twitter was bought with a fair amount of high interest debt, so if he can’t monetise twitter (which looks unlikely now as advertisers as pausing), either he burns the company or has to sell some of his stock to service the debts.
Either way it will be an amusing car crash

Just another sociopath I’ve added to the ‘world would be far better off without him’ list

Has he always been such an arsehole, of has all his wealth truely corrupted him that much. Either way he’s a horrific, dangerous human being.

Let’s hope he turns Twitter into MySpace.

He s turning off account privileges on staff accounts now

This will make things clearer:-

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/musk-to-burns/idipbnhifibemlbkiljhdnibgodoieli

https://twitter.com/rachbonn/status/1588405980655558656?s=21

He always reminded me of that other famous rocket man; Wernher Von Braun.

Though he seems more interested in dishing out the orders rather than following them.

Why the richest man in the world would buy a buisness that’s never made any money, for an extortionate amount of money, would do so in the first place

You telling me you never got drunk and clicked “Buy It Now” without checking how many zeroes are in the price tag before?

What is in it for him?

He’s making himself look like an even bigger **** than we all thought he was.

It would have been cheaper for him to write ELON MUSK IS A KNOB on the moon and would have saved a few people from getting laid off.

Why the richest man in the world…

Because he want’s to be a Big Hitter, a poster, he wants more than anything else to be known for his wit and repartee, he wants folks to laugh at his jokes and pay attention to his thoughts…And they don’t, because he doesn’t understand people. He bought the company because he’s essentially a needy twerp with no friends, and he doesn’t know how to make any

Because he want’s to be a Big Hitter, a poster, he wants more than anything else to be known for his wit and repartee, he wants folks to laugh at his jokes and pay attention to his thoughts…

Oh, but they do! I’ve mates that hang on his every word and regurgitate his tweets to Facebook.

Why the richest man in the world would buy a buisness that’s never made any money, for an extortionate amount of money, would do so in the first place –

“People on Twitter are mean about me / to me”

[lightbulb moment]

“If I buy Twitter, I set the rules and then no-one can be mean to me…”

He’s a dangerous sociopath who’s somehow managed to convince a sizeable number of people that he’s a genius who could save the world but the world won’t let him do that.
Present wild technological “solutions” (like unworkable min-submarines, hyperloops, etc) and when they’re turned down, throw all your toys out the pram at how everyone is too stupid to see your genius.

throw all your toys out the pram at how everyone is too stupid to see your genius.

I wondered for a bit whether he believes his own hype or whether he’s just playing along, and then I watched the Netflix thing, and the shots of his (mad as a box of frogs) mum demanding that the school pay attention to the “genius that is her son”, and suddenly I had a light-bulb moment.

Musk hasn’t made it until he joins STW; having said that some recent posts on various threads cause me to think he already has and is using a pseudonym.
He put up $27bn of the $44bn purchase price (in cash, apparently) with the balance coming from middle eastern sovereign wealth funds and US investment banks.
Have they seen something others have missed or have they cocked up or do they want to stay onside with musk for possible future opportunities.
EDIT: they might just want to be aligned with a sociopathic arse who reminds them of themseĺves.

Have they seen something others have missed or have they cocked up or do they want to stay onside with musk for possible future opportunities.

If you control the information, you control the narrative.

I wondered for a bit whether he believes his own hype or whether he’s just playing along, and then I watched the Netflix thing, and the shots of his (mad as a box of frogs) mum demanding that the school pay attention to the “genius that is her son”, and suddenly I had a light-bulb moment.

Oh he absolutely believes that he is the saviour of the world, an unrecognised genius.
Colonies on Mars, 500mph hyperloops, rockets and satellites and self-driving electric cars everywhere…

But the mean people won’t let him do it cos they have planning regulations and rules and stuff. He’s not unlike Trump or even Johnson in that respect – believe that you are God’s gift to the world, that you are destined to be PM / President / King of the World and then act all surprised and huffy when people make you play by the rules.

Much like Sunak with his multi-millions – he doesn’t need to be PM, he could swan off and live a nice luxurious life, never really have to worry about much but no, he NEEDS the power, the authority, the recognition.

Musk is the same – he has more money than he could possibly spend in 10 lifetimes but rather than quietly do some philanthropic things, he has to be front and centre. The more outlandish the scheme the better. Johnson contented himself with Garden Bridges and tunnels to Ireland; Musk has settled on Mars Colonies and Tesla Tunnels.

Musk hasn’t made it until he joins STW; having said that some recent posts on various threads cause me to think he already has and is using a pseudonym.

oooh, that is a conspiracy theory I could be on board with.