Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[Rasulis]

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/...O-OzcO9D1yBVbg

Another post by multiple people were saying that Elon has been calling and berating advertisers who left. Sorry don't have this tweet, busy. Idk if these tweets were preemptive to the Apple tweet. Calling out an advertiser on Twitters and crying about something that is not close, probably not a good business decision.

He then @ Tim Cook. Love it.

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Is this the one where is Community Notes called him out? No matter what, Elon off the rails and I'm here for it.

Notice Tim Cook kept his mouth shut and no Twitter posts.

[s_bushido]

Notice Tim Cook kept his mouth shut and no Twitter posts.

Tim Cook presumably doesn't have to publicly troll in a desperate attempt to drive engagement to his social media company.

[PfeffermintShake]

Loving it. Everyday brings in a new level of, "Elon is waaay dumber than I thought."

He's picking twitter fights with a company vastly wealthier than his. Also, his top customer and distributor.
Others have pointed out that Elon Musk uses Trump's bullying tactics but he's not good at it.
He tries to bully people who can easily fight back and win. Like he tried to stiff those fired executives but they can actually afford to sue him.


The only people maybe dumber than Elon, are his fanbois and bankers.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Hrm, teams responsible for dealing with astroturfing bots are gone and Twitter is also seeing record engagement according to Elon.

Curious.

It's almost as if Twitter has MORE bots now.

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Oh wait, is Elon back to pretending this is all about Freeze Peach again? It's difficult to keep track of which Elon wakes up every morning, but it's usually a safe bet that it's the troll Elon.

Most people get their kicks trolling Twitter for free, Elon paid fuckin $44B for that same privilege lol.

To be fair, everyone who had blocked/muted Musk was forced to listen to him now, since he perma unblocked himself from everyone who had blocked him. You can still mute him... again, but it's impossible to block him.

$44B for the control to make yourself unblockable? Musk bought a very expensive soapbox for himself.

[Rasulis]

Tim Cook presumably doesn't have to publicly troll in a desperate attempt to drive engagement to his social media company.

In the first quarter of this year, Apple was the top advertiser on Twitter—spending $48 million on ads—according to the Washington Post, which cited a document compiled from Twitter’s internal data. That accounted for more than 4% of Twitter’s overall revenue for that quarter.

Ouch. That had to hurt a lot.

12 of the top 18 US pharmaceutical advertisers reduced their Twitter ad spending to zero. Merck, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Novartis, are Pfizer are key contributors to this new movement.

Six firms exhibited continued investment here, however the majority only inputted a few hundred/ thousand dollars. The only exception is German pharmaceutical company Bayer, totaling $480,000 in the same week most reduced down to zero.

[Zan15]

Ouch. That had to hurt a lot.

12 of the top 18 US pharmaceutical advertisers reduced their Twitter ad spending to zero. Merck, AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Novartis, are Pfizer are key contributors to this new movement.

Six firms exhibited continued investment here, however the majority only inputted a few hundred/ thousand dollars. The only exception is German pharmaceutical company Bayer, totaling $480,000 in the same week most reduced down to zero.

strange based on history and where Bayer is i am shocked they want to support... oh wait.... never mind.

[D Luniz]

CNN to Elon Musk after sharing fake headline: ‘Be Better’



So, yeah, Musk is now willingly spreading misinformation. Was it worth $44 billion just to pretend you're smart enough to write for TheOnion?

Even the Babylon Bee wouldn't want him. Gutfield might take him on though

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Notice Tim Cook kept his mouth shut and no Twitter posts.

Some heads of companies actually work to run said companies.

[Draco-Onis]

To be fair, everyone who had blocked/muted Musk was forced to listen to him now, since he perma unblocked himself from everyone who had blocked him. You can still mute him... again, but it's impossible to block him.

$44B for the control to make yourself unblockable? Musk bought a very expensive soapbox for himself.

Holy cow that guy must have transparent skin along with his micro penis, how sad of a person does he have to be that out of everything he made sure that happened.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Holy cow that guy must have transparent skin along with his micro penis, how sad of a person does he have to be that out of everything he made sure that happened.

I don't even follow Musk, nor does anyone on my follow/mutuals. But I always see his tweets. So he's basically set himself as a forced viewing unless you just mute him.

At least the one funny part is that every time he's a blatant liar, he gets fact checked by Twitter's own systems. I do wonder how long that "feature" will last every time Musk makes a fool of himself?

Ah who am I kidding, he probably doesn't care. His comment threads are always full of racist anti-woke assholes posting "triggered libs" memes. That's all he wanted. Validation.

What do you do when the left doesn't worship you like a god, and they still won't even with electric cars and rockets? Pander to the right. The right and the alt-right are the easiest shit heads to get validation from. Just tell them all the anti-woke stuff and they'll worship you. Trump and Musk are so incredibly similar when you look into their personality and terrible business acumen. Both are only rich because of daddy's money and are just grifters taking credit for other people's work that they "own".

[Edge-]

https://www.businessinsider.com/desa...witter-2022-11

Rofl, anti-capitalist fucks like Ron DeSantis in Florida (of whom Elon is a big fan!) is now saying there should be investigations into Apple's monopoly power if they choose to delist Twitter.

Once again, conservatives correctly identify a problem but go about it in the absolute dumbest way possible that in no way, shape, or form even pretends to address core issues with their operations.

[Draco-Onis]

I don't even follow Musk, nor does anyone on my follow/mutuals. But I always see his tweets. So he's basically set himself as a forced viewing unless you just mute him.

At least the one funny part is that every time he's a blatant liar, he gets fact checked by Twitter's own systems. I do wonder how long that "feature" will last every time Musk makes a fool of himself?

Ah who am I kidding, he probably doesn't care. His comment threads are always full of racist anti-woke assholes posting "triggered libs" memes. That's all he wanted. Validation.

What do you do when the left doesn't worship you like a god, and they still won't even with electric cars and rockets? Pander to the right. The right and the alt-right are the easiest shit heads to get validation from. Just tell them all the anti-woke stuff and they'll worship you. Trump and Musk are so incredibly similar when you look into their personality and terrible business acumen. Both are only rich because of daddy's money and are just grifters taking credit for other people's work that they "own".

I wonder how this shit show is going to affect Tesla sales, there's a reason Fox News runs the bottom of the barrel advertisers that demographic is old and doesn't buy things like Teslas as often. Oh the ways Elon is shooting himself in the foot we won't know for a few months but it sure is funny watching this plane crash.

[Cthulhu 2020]

Twitter is going HARD with the ads. Up until a couple of days ago, after the Musk takeover, I literally only saw a few crypto scam ads. Every since cyber monday I see 2 real tweets and then some clickbait ad for a product. Products which I've seen reviewed by youtubers. Like "the most powerful light" isn't actually the most powerful light and is some kind of cheap knockoff that steals ad shots from other flashlights. The amount of sheer junk that twitter is spamming on my feed is amazing.

But I guess for Musk to make up for losing millions each day, he had to start spamming commercials eh?

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

I wonder how this shit show is going to affect Tesla sales, there's a reason Fox News runs the bottom of the barrel advertisers that demographic is old and doesn't buy things like Teslas as often. Oh the ways Elon is shooting himself in the foot we won't know for a few months but it sure is funny watching this plane crash.

I mean, you gotta be some kinda genius when you own an electric car company and yet spend all your free time "owning the libs".

[Doctor Amadeus]

As far as I know, this was Elon Musk's Twitter post this morning.
And woe betide the creature who steps into his garden. Heh heh

Who drinks that many caffeine free diet coke, kind of explains very little.

[Draco-Onis]

I mean, you gotta be some kinda genius when you own an electric car company and yet spend all your free time "owning the libs".

Maybe he thinks he can get them to buy more cars by insulting them, the guy has issues.

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Who drinks that many caffeine free diet coke, kind of explains very little.

Frankly the diet coke part was the most disturbing part of that picture, that shit taste gross.

[Doctor Amadeus]

Frankly the diet coke part was the most disturbing part of that picture, that shit taste gross.

Well for me it’s the fact I know he has the best private security money can buy, but the poser ass fake hipster gun and hand cannon with Washington crossing the Deleware is the most disturbing.

I mean why would he sleep with those things by his bed. Does he think he’s George fucking Washington or some shit.

[ringpriest]

As far as I know, this was Elon Musk's Twitter post this morning.
And woe betide the creature who steps into his garden. Heh heh

A real cyberpunk firearms fan would have a Maeteba Model 6 Unica (arguably the most awesome revolver ever produced):

[D Luniz]

A real cyberpunk firearms fan would have a Maeteba Model 6 Unica (arguably the most awesome revolver ever produced):

actually, I think that is a bad(as in crappy) Deus Ex: Human Revolution revolver model

[Jastall]

A real cyberpunk firearms fan would have a Maeteba Model 6 Unica (arguably the most awesome revolver ever produced):

That or a replica of Deckard's gun from Blade Runner. That one inspires respect regardless of who has it.

This fake, plastic looking Human Revolution knockoff is anything but cool. To say nothing of the diet coke, ew.

[Draco-Onis]

Well for me it’s the fact I know he has the best private security money can buy, but the poser ass fake hipster gun and hand cannon with Washington crossing the Deleware is the most disturbing.

I mean why would he sleep with those things by his bed. Does he think he’s George fucking Washington or some shit.

He's a man in his 50's so it make sense thinks he needs to show how "tough" he is. The man is addicted to getting attention, I mean it's obvious he's lost it because this only appeals to the people already cheering for him. He isn't going to sell more Teslas or get advertisers back on the platform with this picture, frankly this entire saga feels like a billionaire late mid life crisis.