He is more of a petulant child than Trump is, what is it with all these bitch ass billionaires being pussies?
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And people are now estimating the worth at less than half that now. https://fortune.com/2023/01/03/how-m...ng-bankruptcy/
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Are we talking absolute petulance, or proportional? Trump spent way less money to be almost as petty.
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So just so we're clear, Musk has once again said he is looking for a replacement so he can step down before 2023 ends.
There's a roadmap? Has anyone seen it? I don't mean us, I mean the people at Twitter. I don't believe there's a roadmap considering how many people he's firing. Who would be left to follow it?I think I need to stabilize the organization and just make sure it’s in a financially healthy place and that the product roadmap is clearly laid out
"Dead and buried" is, technically, stable.I’m guessing probably towards the end of this year should be good timing to find someone else to run the company because I think it should be in a stable position around the end of this year.
Musk goes on to say that
Then he threw $44 billion in a pile and set it on fire. Seriously, I don't buy his depictions of his own actions at all. Nobody concerned with the direction of social media lets insurrectionists back on their platform. I mean, unless you're concerned the direction is "insurrectionists are facing consequences for their actions" and you object to that.I think I was a little worried about the direction and the effect of social media on the world, and especially Twitter.
Then he fired people who told him someone else was getting more likes than him. And started making people pay to speak and pay to listen, which of course, is not free speech by any definition of the phrase.I thought it was very important for there to be a maximally trusted sort of digital public square, where people within countries and internationally could communicate with the least amount of censorship allowed by law. Obviously that varies a lot by jurisdiction.
I think the real issue is "Elon Musk is a bawling child waa waa waa". I don't know who his successor will be, in fact I think he's probably still lying about wanting to find one, and I think it's more likely that he'll sell it off than hand it off.
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A touch off topic but...it wasn't just you.
The author says that Twitter failing on a random-ass Wednesday isn't great news, and I'm hard-pressed cider to disagree.Twitter is back after an outage for many on Wednesday. The full extent of the issues was unclear, but the problems were centered on the iOS app. If I tried to refresh my “For you” feed, for example, I got a message that says “tweets aren’t loading right now.” My “Following” feed loaded once but showed the same error message later.
“Pardon the interruption!” Twitter’s support account tweeted Wednesday afternoon. “iOS users may have experienced some trouble using Twitter earlier. Things should be back to normal now.”
User reports peaked at more than 8,000 on Downdetector. I also saw a lot of posts on Twitter asking if the service is down, indicating it wasn’t a total meltdown, I didn’t run into any issues with Twitter in my Chrome browser.
Twitter has been spottier than usual as of late following Elon Musk’s mass layoffs. Last week, many people were having issues tweeting, while the service went through a few hours of glitchiness in December. Might be time to bring back the fail whale.
Rofl, he's coping so fucking hard with his $44B L. This is what terminally online people who don't think they're terminally online think.I think I was a little worried about the direction and the effect of social media on the world, and especially Twitter.
It's never going to be reasonable calling someone a bootlicker and falsely accusing them of having said things they never said, then claim shock at not receiving answers. I've simply asked you to spend some time off the ad hominem and fabrication so we can restart calm discourse. That option is left open for you, and I think you are quite able to leave the other junk by the wayside.
Mixing insults and questions appears to be an ingrained habit for some. That could explain why asking to lay off it a bit would always come off as disingenuous at some level. Secondarily, the persistence may also demonstrate that they desire to accuse someone of dodging more than they desire answers. In any case, I don't wish to test the mods in responding to insults with the same level of insults, trading bootlicker for propaganda swallower, and faking posts by him each time he fakes some by me.
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I've made posts that have zero insults in them, with clear cut questions for you to answer. If you're still angry about the bootlicker comment 6 pages ago, perhaps it's you who needs a break. After all, you've said for how many pages now that it's the reason you won't answer the questions? If the daddy Elon and bootlicker comment upset you so much that you're too distraught a week after the fact, it seems you need to look within. I've been cordial and polite in subsequent posts. You have not. Time for you to touch grass.
This is a discussion forum. That said, we are discussing a topic: Twitter. And all related topics encompassing Twitter. Your hurt feelings tirade is not a discussion. Please come back when you're ready to have a discussion and have had time to reconcile the deep wounds my words left.
I will also clarify about the "bootlicker" comment you seem so incensed by: You were faced with a situation where you knew the Elon manipulated the information, there were links and proof of it all, there was even a giant congressional hearing that proved the Twitter files were horse shit.
I simply asked you to let us know you weren't a blind believer like "all the other boot lickers". I asked you to differentiate yourself from the unwashed masses who blindly guzzle Elon's propaganda, and that you would start questioning sources you want to believe. But it appears your decision was that you want to guzzle his propaganda without thought? Those are the people I was referring to when I said bootlickers. So are you among them, or are you not?
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2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
You mean like
That was a lie, you never answered a direct question once.
That was the 6th.
You continue to bring up points for which you have no backing, then refuse to discuss them when your evidence is contradicted. You refuse to discuss the context of this thread, instead playing the victim card when you're challenged.
It is not "ad hominem" to call you a liar when you're objectively lying.
It is not "ad hominem" to say you have no point when you don't.
It is not "ad hominem" to say you're going off-topic when you're choosing to make the thread all about you.
And it is not "ad hominem" to call you an Elon Musk bootlicker when you agree with everything he does, or at the very minimum, refuse to discuss the negative issues despite being repeatedly directly asked.
Literally not a single word, not one, in the post I'm respoinding to is on topic. It's you on defense for being called out for being labeled a lying spamming bootlicking troll. The fact that you almost solely post late at night, when neither @Rozz nor @Flarelaine are watching, tells me you're doing it on purpose to avoid moderation.
Half of the last ten pages is you posting off-topic and being surrounded and beaten by other posters who accurately point that out. Stop being the problem and please post constructively.
Speaking of which:
Elon Musk reinvents Twitter for the benefit of a power user: Himself
Yeah. Musk blocked Ukraine, the victim in a war started by Russia, from using Twitter.A new feature displaying view counts on tweets that rolled out late last year showed Musk’s tweets at the time were driving massive engagement, including more than 1 billion views on Dec. 18, for example. All in all, Musk’s tweets on a typical day in December were shown 231 million times.
But that number dropped off substantially this year. Between Jan. 1 and the Super Bowl, Musk’s tweets were shown only 137 million times on a typical day. This week, after his posts were artificially boosted, he’s up to around 400 million per day, according to a Washington Post analysis of the view counts.
Musk has nearly 130 million followers, making him one of the site’s most popular users. He first indicated he was pursuing Twitter in April, saying he wanted to restore “free speech” and tackle the site’s persistent problem of spam and bots.
But several former Twitter employees, including some with direct knowledge of the issues he prioritized, said Musk’s changes were often geared toward improving his own user experience. Data has emerged showing how he has benefited from the changes, and examples have piled up month after month of specific actions geared toward improving his personal experience on the site. The former employees spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
At Twitter, Musk has bent the company to his impulses in ways that might be less feasible at publicly traded Tesla, where he also serves as chief executive, and which has a corporate board, unlike Twitter.
And at one point, Musk was so hellbent on eliminating spam and bots on the site, for example, that Twitter — which uses phone numbers to verify the authenticity of accounts — banned entire country codes from its system, according to the people with knowledge of the matter.
That created a problem: One of the countries affected, Ukraine, is in the midst of a prolonged war with Russia, where social media has played a key strategic role. Ukrainians suddenly found they could not post on Twitter.
Which is a fucking lying disingenuous thing to say -- so of course, it fits right in this thread -- when you're rewriting Twitter to force-feed everyone on your platform your content.Musk was asked about the potential brand risk to Tesla brought on by his vocal expression of political opinions. It was a rare instance in which Musk was confronted with the prospect of declining popularity.
“Let me check my Twitter account. So I’ve got 127 million followers,” he said in response. “It continues to grow quite rapidly. That suggests that I’m reasonably popular.”
He added: “I might not be popular [with] some people but for the vast majority of people, my follower count speaks for itself.”
Elon Musk's Twitter is getting worse. The outages, the paid features that used to be free, dropping third-party app access, the mass firings, not paying rent, Musk's Super Bowl meltdown, tehdang the bootlicker refusing to discuss the topic even when he started it, the list goes on and on. Twitter has objectively lost users -- oh, and advertisesrs -- since Musk took over, which is ironic considering the bans he reversed. Musk borrowed $13 billion to take over a company he's both wrecking and already at least claiming to be ready to leave.
And the funny part...is still Musk setting $44 billion on fire, okay, but the second funniest part is Trump still isn't on Twitter.
Stay civil during discussion.
If debate breaks down, you don't need to obsessively reply to each other. You can move on. No petty remarks and no cyclical arguments for arguing's sake needed.
Once replies begin to focus on a poster and not the thread, it's a good sign to take a breather. So let's go back to discussing the topic.
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So yeah, this is a shit move.
Holding people hostage that you can be hacked just cause $8. I remember Elon being a prick when people talked about blue check and he kept replying $8. Him thinking he held the ace. Now he is back to extortion.
Only people who can fuck him is advertisers. Not sure if maybe hacks become that bad for majority of people not paying loses engagement, thus advertisers.
"Buh dah DEMS"
More evidence that Twitter is hemorrhaging money:
He gets the bill for the site's 2FA and his immediate response is to cut it down to paying customers only.
He's really cutting a lot of corners on this whole money saving thing.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
Isn't 2FA itself mostly a cost cutting measure to reduce the amount of CS staff needed to deal with account recovery?
I'm assuming for Twitter it just means account recovery isn't going to work if you get hacked or stolen, since no way they're paying the necessary CS staff to deal with that.
Yep. Blizzard gave out 2FA for free because they knew it would save costs in customer service AND people leaving WoW because their account got hacked. If Elon doesn't realize the value of secure accounts, even the free ones, he's a fool. Of course, his paying customers get 2FA. But if people's accounts start getting hacked en masse, Twitter will become a ghost town eventually, and even the paying customers will leave if there's nobody to interact with.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"