Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter
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wrote on 29 Oct 2022, 15:30 last edited by
H/T Ivorythumper
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wrote on 29 Oct 2022, 15:36 last edited by
We'll see how many people actually do end up voting against Twitter with their eyeballs and clicks. My suspicion is that not many will. Because actually the politically directional moderation didn't make the place more attractive, and the lack of it (to whatever extent a change will even be noticeable) won't make it less attractive.
That won't stop the left from writing op-eds about how the place has become a cesspool of hate, replete with references to troll tweets that could just as easily have been culled from Twitter before the Musk takeover. Ax is dutifully reporting such stories to TNCR as we speak.
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wrote on 29 Oct 2022, 19:56 last edited by
LOL, the number of people that I have seen posting on Facebook that they are leaving Twitter is HILARIOUS. I’ve just opened a Twitter account.
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wrote on 29 Oct 2022, 20:16 last edited by Horace
It’ll become a guilty pleasure. If any mainstreamer talks about being on Twitter now, they will be extra careful to provide the scaffolding about being careful who they follow and that their feed is sane and sensible.
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wrote on 29 Oct 2022, 20:34 last edited by
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wrote on 29 Oct 2022, 23:29 last edited by Copper
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wrote on 30 Oct 2022, 04:01 last edited by
I think that Elon Musk has kind of "jump the shark". He seemed to used to have quite a bit of respect for his business thinking and "out of the box" thinking.
But to my unsophisticated mind, he seems to have lost that respect. He is Starting to seem like a "caricature ".
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I think that Elon Musk has kind of "jump the shark". He seemed to used to have quite a bit of respect for his business thinking and "out of the box" thinking.
But to my unsophisticated mind, he seems to have lost that respect. He is Starting to seem like a "caricature ".
wrote on 30 Oct 2022, 16:35 last edited by@taiwan_girl said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
I think that Elon Musk has kind of "jump the shark". He seemed to used to have quite a bit of respect for his business thinking and "out of the box" thinking.
But to my unsophisticated mind, he seems to have lost that respect. He is Starting to seem like a "caricature ".
That's because Musk has verged into having opinions that go against the pop cultural grain. The lack of respect you feel, is entirely due to the disrespectful messaging you're being fed, by the cultural forces who feel threatened by Musk. You might want to reflect on what you know about Musk, and how you know it. My guess is that you couldn't name a single specific thing Mr Musk believes, which you would find worthy of disrespect.
The reason the messaging has become disrespectful, is because Mr Musk is demonstrably not an indoctrinated left-leaning culture soldier, and as such is unreliable in his political and cultural opinions. This scares the leftist establishment, so they pull the levers to make the masses feel about Musk as they would like the masses to feel about Musk.
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wrote on 30 Oct 2022, 19:41 last edited by
@Copper said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
Musk is probably just helping the GOP in the midterms.
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wrote on 31 Oct 2022, 00:12 last edited by
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wrote on 31 Oct 2022, 13:48 last edited by
Mr. Musk also appears unlikely to pay the golden parachutes that the fired top executives of Twitter were set to receive. Under the merger agreement, those executives — including Parag Agrawal, the chief executive — had been set to receive compensation of $20 million to $60 million if they were fired. But Mr. Musk terminated the executives “for cause,” meaning he did it because he alleged he had justification, which may void that agreement, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
Those executives, who also include the former chief financial officer Ned Segal, the former general counsel Sean Edgett, and the former top policy and legal executive Vijaya Gadde, are deliberating their next steps, one person said.
Mr. Musk may also be testing Twitter’s engineers. He and his team have assigned some of them projects to complete, three people with knowledge of the matter said. One project involved changes to Twitter’s login screen, they said. Some engineers worked late into the night on Friday to complete the assignments, they said. -
wrote on 31 Oct 2022, 13:53 last edited by
If Musk is right, the "for cause" argument holds up.
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wrote on 31 Oct 2022, 13:57 last edited by
@Jolly said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:
If Musk is right, the "for cause" argument holds up.
Yup. When you deceive the courts or FEC ahead of sale of the company, yeah, that's cause.
Meanwhile...
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wrote on 31 Oct 2022, 15:53 last edited by
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wrote on 31 Oct 2022, 23:54 last edited by
Musk dissolves Twitter Board.
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wrote on 2 Nov 2022, 13:45 last edited by
He's having fun, isn't he?
Let's hope he makes a little money while he's at it...