Elon Musk buys and ruins Twitter

[I'm With Stupid]

Nice to see the rules of the website only apply to the 'little people.' He's really a force for equality and democracy, isn't he?

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Thought I’d seek out this thread so I could post ‘Who gives a ****’.

Thanks.

 

[aguero93:20]

Mad nonce thundercunt

Fixed.

Probably a rag too.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Think too many were getting giddy thinking Musk was going to make Twitter and his other businesses implode over the way he took over - when the storm dies down I think he’ll have more users then ever, Ad revenues will come back and all will carry on as usual

 

[aguero93:20]

Reddit is basically forums too.

And before anyone complains about Twitter getting shit, the overwhelming majority of western internet domains including the US and 20+ EU domains threatened (sincerely) to shut Reddit down altogether a few years back if they didn't clean up their act and improve moderation standards as some of their content was breaking the law. That's one of the top 5 sites for traffic in the world.

 

[jrb]

There will always be young, talented and intelligent people who want to work for Musk and Twitter. They will fall over themselves to get a job working for Musk and Twitter. He’s their icon.

Yes, there will be initial upheavals and possible problems at Twitter after all the sackings, but there are enough talented people left to keep Twitter going during and after the initial upheaval and changes.

Bit by bit Musk and Twitter will recruit new staff who are willing to do the new hours, work patterns and what’s expected of them. The old staff who were sacked and have left will soon be forgotten anout.

It reminds me of the BBC move North. The London staff, their Unions and the London based media were complaining about the ‘forced move North’. Those BBC staff who didn’t move North lost their jobs. Those BBC staff who did move North, most will have probably done so successfully, whilst others will have gone back to London. But most importantly, all those jobs that became available will have been filled by people from Manchester, from the North, and from around the UK.

For as long as I can remember there hasn’t been any murmurings of discontent and unhappiness from BBC staff at Mediacity. It’s just a shame the BBC Sports department is full of Rags and Scousers.

Elon Musk,- Twitter

Just leaving Twitter HQ code review

 

[SWP's back]

Think too many were getting giddy thinking Musk was going to make Twitter and his other businesses implode over the way he took over - when the storm dies down I think he’ll have more users then ever, Ad revenues will come back and all will carry on as usual

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Think you’re not very good at analysing things.



Ps the majority of their major advertisers said they’d permanently leave if Trump was reinstated.

Just watch TSLA’s stock price tomorrow. My belief is that it will tank which is the market’s view as to what’s going to happen at Twitter as the worse Twitter does, the more likely Musk will have to sell off a fuck ton of his Tesla shares.

Or you know, you could just trust the words of the alt right incel **** that’s trumpeting the company he just overpaid for by 4x.

 

[domalino]

 

[inbetween]

And before anyone complains about Twitter getting shit, the overwhelming majority of western internet domains including the US and 20+ EU domains threatened (sincerely) to shut Reddit down altogether a few years back if they didn't clean up their act and improve moderation standards as some of their content was breaking the law. That's one of the top 5 sites for traffic in the world.

Over the years I've seen everything on Twitter, racism, anti-semitism, homophobia.... Everything, you name it.

Where were these 'domains' when Twitter wasn't being run by Musk?

In fact where has anyone been for the last 10 years where all sides of political debate have been abusing and tearing each other to shreds on there?

Where was the faux outrage then?

 

[domalino]

There will always be young, talented and intelligent people who want to work for Musk and Twitter. They will fall over themselves to get a job working for Musk and Twitter. He’s their icon.

Yes, there will be initial upheavals and possible problems at Twitter after all the sackings, but there are enough talented people left to keep Twitter going during and after the initial upheaval and changes.

Twitter was already employing young talented and intelligent people and something like 90% of them have left. A lot of the survivors will be looking for new jobs but can’t be unemployed or they’ll be deported.

I’m sure he will find a pool of tech bros desperate to work for Elon who can try to run things but they won’t be as good - hence the desperate attempts to rehire people who’ve gone.

There are major systems already not working. The advance search function is down, the 2 factor authorisation was down (don’t know if it’s fixed) so anyone who logged out couldn’t log back in.

Advertisers will not come back. The history of twitter is that no one wanted to advertise on it until 2 years ago because it had a reputation for being a breeding ground for hate speech and the far right. Between 2016 and banning trump in 2020 they had stagnant, sometimes negative ad revenue growth.

Then by banning Trump and cracking down on the people riding in his wake they almost triple ad revenue in 2 1/2 years.

The main agencies suspended advertising because they were worried Musk would do what he just did - bring back the people who put Twitter into negative headlines every week.



The site isn’t going to go dark, although outages have skyrocketed around the world, it’s just going to get progressively worse as a platform.