So the radical free speech guy is going to sue someone for what they said? Sounds spot on for Musk.
Wait, I don’t see that in the article. Who’s he suing now?
We can only hope
Haven’t people been saying that since before he even bought it?
did people stop deadnaming twitter
Right? Twitter hasn’t stopped dead naming Twitter, for fuck’s sake
We’ve yet to see any regulatory actions with real consequences, so yeah I doubt it.
A $50 fine or something
Musk only buys things that he thinks will keep his name in the news, and he’s always looking for that next bong-hit of attention.
Nobody likes him. Nobody cares about him. And he makes it so obvious WHY with his racist, apartheid bullsh*t.
Can we please stop posting business news here
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Many who remain actively want to spread hate
Inertia. In the UK, for example, every local government council, the NHS, central government, charities etc use user Twitter//X as a free channel for announcements and publicity. Quite often they manage it though things like Hootsuite that lets the, plan and manage and cross-post to Facebook etc.
Deciding to quit that is quite a major step - especially when there isn’t really a clear single alternative that has similar reach and userbase.
Except that they’ve ruined that too. You now need an account to view anything, so the reach of announcements is greatly diminished.
At this point leaving shouldn’t really be too difficult, since a large portion of your audience already has; because they’ve been shut out, or have quit voluntarily.
And now we’re living in the “that was a bad idea” world.
No he hasn’t. 200M users won’t jump off because of this. If most people really cared, they’d be switching to alternatives - they don’t.
Money doesn’t come from the users, it comes from the advertisers. The platform is already in the hole but it’s getting worse over time
I think fediverse is not still popular as it is. And most people don’t know that better alternatives exist.
It shows how much more important being first is rather than being the best.
I’ve heard this said for months now
Yeah, it’s only a death warrant for conventionally run companies. He can run it into the ground as deep as his pockets will let him. And according to Forbes that’s still relatively deep, deeper than they should be anyway.
I kind of suspect he’s up to something. Maybe he’s grooming it for a political ad platform. Although it’s equally possible he just loves watching everybody flip the hell out, One hell of an expensive hobby if so.
Death warrant? Maybe, but I expect companies (maybe not the EU, but - let’s be frank - probably the EU too) to go back into X as soon as they feel they are done cashing in this virtue signaling.
There were plenty of reasons to leave twitter before this idiotic tweet from Musk (reasons due to twitter’s action as a company, and not just Musk’s drunken posts) and they were all happily tweeting and advertising.
Is this drop that breaks the camel’s back? Maybe, but I wouldn’t be holding my breath.
My chips are also on them coming back, but at the same time it feels like Musk wants to make Twitter’s business harder than it needs to be.
This reaction doesn’t come from the last tweet itself, instead it comes from him not stopping with hot takes and not showing any signs of slowing down.
If he keeps going, I could see companies just accepting “it is what it is” and coming back, but at the same time it also feels like he’s one tweet away from going too far for most companies. And it’s not like Twitter is a strong social media anyway, they are not even in the top 10 social medias in terms of active users count: https://www.statista.com/statistics/272014/global-social-networks-ranked-by-number-of-users/
Maybe these companies may also decide that dealing with Twitter is more trouble than it’s worth. But we’ll see
I don’t think x’s value is from the number of users. It’s the type of powerful people on it and the headline style format the multiplies it’s impact across the information space. It still sucks though
right, but what matters to most ad publishers is the number of eyeballs that are converted into buying customers
Well, that was certainly decisive.
X is a shit company that doesn’t need to exist anymore but I’m equally tired of companies virtue signaling behind causes. Like, fuck off, I don’t need you to tell me that you’re “invested” in “human rights” or “causes” when you treat your workers like shit and fail to provide your retail workers a minimum wage for example.
X and these other companies virtue signaling behind causes for profit/marketing goodwill can all go to hell.
“cashing in this virtue signaling”
Not wanting to be associated with the Great Replacement theory is “virtue signaling”
Tell me you’re a right wing shill without telling me you’re a right wing shill
I have very little faith in businesses to do the right thing for the right reasons. Publicly traded companies in the US literally can’t do that legally if they think it will hurt their bottom line.
He’s right. They don’t care about what’s on X as long as there isn’t negative publicity. It has nothing to do with being right-wing. If anything, it’s quite left-wing to believe that companies only care about the baseline.
“virtue signaling” is a right wing term by which statements of principle are dismissed.
That’s rubbish. It has nothing to do with right wing. Google, Apple, Coca Cola, Microsoft, and many other large companies have been accused of virtue signaling - rightfully so. They pretend to care about social issues for 2 seconds and then go right back to business once the news cycle is over. Is that a right-wing thing to do?
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the guy don’t give a single fuck, people don’t get that he don’t care about loosing money.
Good. I hope it goes under.
How would that happen?
It can’t afford its debt. It’s almost guaranteed to happen.
I read about where the money came from and I’m not saying I really understand it, but it seems solid enough for it to never fail unless musk wants it to fail.
Which is, like,…if somebody wants to destroy twitter as fast as possible, but make it look like it’s not intentional, what would they do differently than what is happening right now? :) Jk, musk is just an incompetent bag of shit.
It was always going to fail. At that point, Twitter as a company only recently started actually making a profit. What Musk did is called a leveraged buy-out where someone takes out a loan to buy a company. The company that is bought out is then responsible for paying that loan. Remember when I said they just barely had started making money? Well, now they have so much debt that they not only have to make enough money to cover their previous expenses, but also cover the payments for this new loan, and the new loan has interest that creates additional debt of $1 billion a year. How is a company that struggles to make money suddenly going to come up with an extra $1 billion a year? Charging for checkmarks? There aren’t enough users… That’s why he is so desperate. He knows that by making that joke offer, he royally screwed himself when Twitter called his bluff and forced him to buy. I think he just wanted an excuse to sell some Tesla stock that he knew was overvalued but had said he wouldn’t sell.
I don’t know, as far as I understand it, all the money sources are covered quite well, he can literally do whatever and there won’t be much consequences.
The money used to come from advertisers. Elon has been trying to move it to a subscription model, but few people want to subscribe to a place only right wingers want to be.
Elon wanted Xitter to be a bastion of right wing speech. He just didn’t think about what that would entail.
I hope so. I’m so fucking tired of hearing about it.
It would be amazing if there were any sort of consequences for this clown, or any other rich clown, honestly.
I think part of the reason bad behavior has been so normalized among the general populace is because they’re seeing such bad behavior from “the elites” that they “look up to” so they think that since those “rich, successful men” act like that without consequence, it must mean that behavior is okay.
There are many factors.
Knew he was good for something
