Elon: why is our revenue tanking?
Why won’t people give me money for what used to he free? I don’t get it.
I mean, I would have. If at the beginning of the API mess they had said “Hey, baconreader is now going to be 10$ a month”, I wouldn’t have blinked.
So basically any companies that were using that as a customer support channel — I’m thinking of like, American Airlines, etc… will now no longer be able to help customers via DM? Are DM’s only subscriber to subscriber now?
I’ve never seen someone ham-fistedly destroy a company faster than this fucking guy.
But you can change it back. Here’s how.
At this point, why even bother?
And you’re relying on anyone else you want to DM changing that setting too. Otherwise, you’re SOL even if you’ve changed it on your end.
Just leave the god damn platform :)
I never had a Twitter to begin with. I’m certainty not going to get one now lol.
Same here, never had a Twitter account, never will.
Elon does not want you to use Twitter. Please let that sink in.
It’s Cartmanland and you can’t come!
A bit misleading. They’re not blocking dms. They just changed a setting for some people
He’s banking on the name “Twitter” still meaning something and there being no viable alternatives. Threads has really shown that twitter isn’t as ubiquitous as we all assumed.
Geez, Elon, I already deleted my account two weeks ago! I don’t need more convincing to leave!
So, is musky boy intentionally running twitter into the ground? That’s gotta be it, right?
100%. He’s not the only one in on it either. Its in many rich peoples interest to destroy the biggest communication platforms the world has ever seen. Same thing is happening at Reddit, and with many TV and radio stations. It’s a minor investment for these people.
that just leaves room for the second biggest communication platform to become the biggest platform.
and tbh the newest generation uses tiktok more to stay informed
Which also has momentum to get it shut down. The fact that I agree with shutting it down makes me wonder if it’s actually the smart idea or if I’ve just bought the propaganda behind that drive.
Another platform may eventually take over, but 2024 is the goal, nothing will be even close to the level Twitter and Reddit were at in 2020 by then. Maybe never again.
Do the TikTok users of the newest generation vote? Might explain why these same people are seeking bans on it and trying to raise the voting age.
Tiktok is already bigger than Snapchat, Twitter and reddit
and yes. many politicians and meta see tiktok as a threat
Really? I didn’t think it was anywhere near that big. But A. are those users even old enough to vote, B. Do they vote, C. what is the political atmosphere over there? I wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot VPN.
i don’t know what the age distribution is but you certainly have a large population of current and future voters.
it’s certainly more left, but with every large platform it’s really a reflection of society at large.
They are very concerned about a potential GOP wipe out next election.
I don’t think so, solely because his ego wouldn’t allow it. Tanking Twitter is making him a laughingstock. There’s no way he would’ve done that intentionally.
I’ve always had twitter but never really used it at all apart from contacting companies when I couldn’t resolve things the normal way.
Think it’s time to delete it.
I’m astounded that people use it for anything other than this. I have received some decently fast customer service via twitter. However one glance at the content and I got tf out.
It stays on my phone for the sole reason that I have notifications turned on from a local weather account
Jokes on you, no one ever DM’ed me anyway.
Really? What’s your secret to avoiding the incessant only fans bots?
I dunno, I guess the fact that I’ve never been very active on Twitter. I use it occasionally and reply to the odd thread, but I never even knew only fans bots was a thing there.
I’ve used Twitter off and on for a while to follow artists who post there, and my dms are full of only fans spam and crypto scams
We’re living in very interesting times indeed.
So we have one billionaire over in Meta, who’s been making it very known how predatory in practice he is with getting your data and they fundamentally shatter the functionality of all of their platforms.
Then, we have this billionaire here who under a year, has made a total catastrophe of what was once a thriving platform once worth billions of it’s own until he came and acquired it.
And then we have this not-a-billionaire who, is inspired by the self-destruction of the other platforms that they too, must follow suit, in hopes of aspiring success.
I wonder what book they’re all reading from in the ways of business, that says if you suck harder, they’ll mean a net positive.
And then there’s Maud
twitter is becomming painful to use everyday
It would be interesting to see it all lead up to some master plan like Elon gaining some hug political favor or something with all his actions with someone.
Why do you think he needs a hug ?
You kinda hope this is leading somewhere and it’s not just some crazy dude drunk with power hurtling the ship nose first into an iceberg.
Someone whose name rhymes with pootin.
Why not move to Mastodon?
The didn’t buy Twitter for a profit.
He bought Twitter to destroy it because big free horizontal communication platforms are bad for billionaires.
He can’t just close it, so he just destroy it little by little until it is no more.
The same way conservative groups bought Tumblr because it was too sexual liberating for their conservative views.
he offered to buy twitter for a joke, and he actually did buy twitter because a court forced him to. not because this was some grand plan to accomplish anything - he literally spent months in court arguing that he shouldn’t have to buy twitter, and he lost. that’s the only reason he owns twitter now.
Yeah, he owns it because he’s a dumbass and he’s running it into the ground like a dumbass
the court didn’t force him, he could have paid a penalty that was much lower than his current losses.
You cannot make a “joke” offer file it with the SEC and expect to get out of it.
Why couldn’t he just close it, if that was his goal? He owns it outright doesn’t he? He could announce that Twitter was ceasing operations, sell off the remaining assets, cover (or default on) the debts, and then Twitter would be no more.
So no, I don’t think destroying it was his aim. He’s just really, really bad at this.
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But as the richest man in the world, he could cover their stakes. If the goal was to end Twitter, he has the resources to do so without losing anyone else’s money.
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He didn’t need their money, he just wanted it. Worse comes to worst, he can find enough in the couch cushions to cover them.
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Exactly. His old friend Peter Thiel couldn’t make a rival platform take off, so Musk bought Twitter and saddled it with an untenable $13bn of debt.
He bought Twitter because he (along with the Saudi royal family, the monarchy ruling Qatar, and the larger worldwide cabal of authoritarians) thought he could use it to control public discourse in the same way oligarchs bought up newspapers, radio stations, and TV stations in the past. He’s killing it because he never understood what most people liked about Twitter, he only understood what he liked about Twitter (getting a lot of attention and being able to be shitty to people without having to actually socialize).
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He bought Twitter by mistake, and was forced into it by Twitter shareholders who saw the opportunity to make bank.
This is also the case, however he had the option to drop out with much lower losses.
That would involve him backing down and admitting an error, which he’s clearly not capable of.
“mistake” in this case actually means by shooting his mouth off and thinking he was smarter than everyone else in the room. He fucked around, then immediately began finding out.
But, $420.69, bruh!
It’s so frustrating to be in the Valley, and be subjected to one set of rules to tightly follow, while a group of special sociopaths (e.g., Musk, SBF, Holmes, Neumann) are free to do whatever they like.
Just playing devil’s advocate. But aren’t two of your examples either on their way or in jail right now?
I should have been more clear: The Valley allows and even encourages certain sociopaths to flout rules and conventions around ethics and reporting, while the rest of us are held tightly to those rules and conventions. For example, Sequoia seemingly didn’t even perform de minimis due diligence when leading a nine-figure round in FTX.
You give Musk too much credit. The fucking guy is a big baby with impulse issues - who happens to have billions of dollars at his disposal. He is running Twitter exactly as I would think a dipshit narcissistic tantrum baby would run it, although dismantling Twitter does coincidentally benefit the top .1% for now
“How to burn 44 billion dollars within a year” by Elon Musk
✅ alienated advertisers ✅ alienated right wing by curbing free speech despite saying the opposite ✅ alienated left wing by letting the right wing go rampant ✅ restricting core functions
Wow how is that going to be profitable for him? I don’t see it.
It must be nice to be able to burn 44 billion dollars and not miss it at all.
I could live comfortably for the rest of my life on 1/10,000th of what Musk wasted.
With 44 billion us dollars Elon could have built a small home for every homeless us citizen.
Ignoring that there is zero chance such a hateful sociopath whose entire life is built on apartheid would do that:
No, he couldn’t. Because the housing crisis is less about money and more about zoning. People HATE multifamily housing and new construction. The moment any attempt at new construction starts you get all the whahoos coming out of the woodwork to talk about how that overgrown field full of abandoned tires is actually a fundamental part of the culture of the town and where their children play and that new construction can’t happen because The Poors might invade.
Fixating on money is a trap. It isn’t about money. Slumlords would LOVE to build out apartment complexes they can gouge people on and to increase overall population density. It is all about the politicians and the zoning laws.
I Florida apartment complexes are being built to increase population density and gouge money. Rent here is $1600 - $2000.
New-build apartment complexes charge what the market will bear. The market will bear such a high price because the zoning code restricts supply by limiting where the apartments can be built and mandates expensive amenities (most notably, dedicated parking spaces).
Relax the zoning code and more, cheaper, apartments would be built.
I would also add on that Florida is very atypical (oh no, I am a prejudiced elitist!). if only because of the high probability of flooding and hurricane damage coupled with insurance companies actively leaving the state.
Although I acknowledge that those issues are real and important, I’m skeptical about assigning too much weight to them in terms of causes of high housing costs. Frankly, prices in most other parts of the country are similarly bad even without those factors in play.
Most of us will be overjoyed to see 1M deposited in our bank accounts. Not for Elon.
Its still profitable for him because people still use that site.
It actually seems like the right can still say what they want, and the right was never actually for free speech.
They’re for their own speech being unrestricted, mostly to say hateful things and incite violence. But you better believe the same standard isn’t applied to the left.
alienated right wing by curbing free speech despite saying the opposite
They don’t care. They don’t want actual free speech, they just wanted their speech forced to everyone without fact checking or throttling.
I kind of like it.
