Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

@Horace said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

Would that you give others the same courtesy.

Speaking of courtesies, I made 5 observations about Musk’s takeover of Twitter. You responded with a comment about me.

Maybe next time address the substance of the post?

My response was about the legions of people who have made personal observations about Elon and how that tracks with their predictions of his companies, and that you now join that line. As for boiling down your thoughts into other words, such as that you don't much care for Elon or that you're predicting his failure, of course you will respond that those other words are inaccurate. That's what you do. But a dispassionate reader of your thoughts might conclude that the characteristics you laid out, are not positive ones, and that the effects you laid out, were not positive to his business interests.

As for responding to every bit of the post, I think they were not questions posed directly to me. If you would like my thoughts on something, you should ask respectfully.

[George K]

[Copper]

I am wondering why they suspended advertising.

The reason given by advertisers seems to be uncertainty.

But if you dig a little deeper, the talking point is that Twitter now allows hate, vulgar and hostile rhetoric aimed at people based on their race, religion, ethnicity and orientation, such as the "n-word," "k-word," and "f-word,".

I can see where those things might be impolite or unpleasant for some.

It also seems that democrats hate Mr. Musk, republicans seem to be more tolerant.

[jon-nyc]

Maybe Texas will pass a law that you can’t stop advertising on Twitter if you operate in Texas, and you can’t not operate in texas.

[Jolly]

That would fix it, I guess.

Suspend doesn't meant quit. Advertisers want eyeballs. If Twitter can furnish eyeballs, it's business as usual.

[Horace]

Maybe the southern poverty law center can begin tracking companies who do business with sites affiliated with hatred. Then the actuaries can tally the cost of being on the list vs the benefit of advertising on whichever site they please.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

Slow infield fly, even if Elon hadn’t already made the joke a couple of days ago.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

Slow infield fly, even if Elon hadn’t already made the joke a couple of days ago.

Those are complicated plays that they even had to add a massive rules kludge to account for.

[taiwan_girl]

@George-K said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

I sure as heck wouldn’t want to work for him

https://www.businessinsider.com/working-for-elon-musk-spacex-workplace-culture-twitter-jim-cantrell-2022-11

That sounds like a lady I know. Never had her as a boss, but I know people who did. 100++++% dedicated to work. No outside life at all. My friend got a text (or email) from her at something like 1 am, and then got "chewed out" because he did not answer it until 8 am the next morning.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

8 bucks a month for Twitter?

Well.

Note that Musk agrees.

[George K]

Also, someone was wondering if journalists who use "they/them" as pronouns will have to pay $16 because "they" identify as multiple people.

[George K]

[jon-nyc]

Oops.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc I’m not totally convinced that guy knows what he’s doing

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Elon Musk buys a big chunk of Twitter:

Oops.

Understatement of the week.

[George K]

[Horace]

18 years ago that happened to me after my employer in WI was purchased. I have no emotional memory of having been fired so I guess I didn’t care much. But my team was oopsed back into employment soon thereafter. Then several months later we were given an ultimatum to move to CA, because they couldn’t fathom maintaining a remote team. That’s when my total domination of an entire leftist state began. After that process was complete, I moved on.

[jon-nyc]

Or maybe not?

[jon-nyc]

By the way, was this a rule previously on Twitter? Seems like no, since he said “going forward….”

But then he said he was making no moderation changes until his committee meets. But that was a couple of days ago so who knows.