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Pay 44 billion for a brand, then change it. Pure genius.
Pay billions for a userbase, then drive away the ones that aren’t Nazis or bots.
Been saying it for a while, but his plan was to run it into the ground all along. Who is he buddy-buddy with in public? The Saudi’s and the Russians, who both have an interest in seeing Twitter burn to the ground. He started by laying off people, not paying their bills, and making stupid brand decisions. This has been the plan all along and there’s really no other logical explanation. 44 billion is nothing to the Saudis and Russian oligarchs if it takes away a key tool for organized dissent and the spread of western ideals.
@MeetInPotatoes You are giving him too much credit.
I guess, but I honestly thought he would be better at pretending to make good decisions.
Brand and user base. Destroy both
@boredtortoise And last, destroy the technology. Mission completed.
Don’t give him too much credit. Elon is transparently too terminally online to be destroying Twitter because that’s his goal. He didn’t even actually mean to buy it until he was forced to.
Yeah, he was just trying to manipulate stocks and a judge made him follow through.
Yeah Musk is malicious but I’ll give this one to incompetence
Sell the servers on eBay to the homelabbers lmao
What are they gonna call tweets now?
Exes. Elon has too many of those, too.
Crusades?
Cross words?
Xits?
Pay 54 billion dollars to utterly destroy a platform which gave normal people the ability to effectively spread information about the wrongdoing of the upper class, and which often promoted that very information.
That’s why he did this, he knows it’s killing g Twitter and wants it dead.
Twitter and Reddit are both lessons in how to kill a community and a brand.
You can throw Warner Brothers Discovery in there while you are at it (HBO now stupidly referred to as “Max”)
HBO has changed their branding like 5 times in the last few years I swear.
I just saw a trailer for an adventure time spin off on a youtube channel called “Max” and though it was a random channel that post trailer lol. Granted i rarely watch anything and while i know about HBO i don’t ever remember watching anything from them.
I watched a South Park movie for the first time in years. In this one they traveled into the future. Everything had Max or Plus added to the name. It seemed pretty spot on with where we are going
I get the feeling that these execs need a plan to increase profits every quarter, and this is one of the gotos.
Maybe the CEO is just a big Image comics fan and forgot the second X in Maxx.
Lessons for whom? I have several things I would like to kill but lack the requisite trillions to execute my vision.
Sounds like a Kickstarter idea if I’ve ever seen one.
You know I wonder if we could create a non profit that exists only to buy things and then donate them (IP, closed source, whatever) to the public domain. If you had a savvy board, such an organization could do a lot of good.
Something like this must already exist, right?
A savvy board would get a 10% cut on each transaction, count me in!
I mean they would need to be paid, but idk about a percentage. Mostly just to fairly compensate them for the time spent vetting deals.
What’s savvy about getting paid just for your time? You need to get paid for expertise, opportunities, networking… that’s at least 10%, since a non-profit wouldn’t have preference shares.
I’m leery about a percentage just because I perceive a conflict of interest. Overall compensation of 10% might be about right, but tying actual compensation to the cost of stuff that is bought creates a perverse incentive to overspend on things. That’s money donated for the betterment of humanity, not so I can have a 3 acre swimming pool.
But IDK maybe I’m looking at it wrong.
Would be the largest one if we want to go after facebook
When they start focusing on the brand, it’s over.
I was part of a “startup” that was all volunteers. We called ourselves Citizens Market, and the idea was to produce an app that let you scan a barcode to get ethical info on the company who made the product.
Like GoodGuide, but they got to market faster.
After a few years of effort, a marketing person joined our all-volunteer team and convinced the head to change the name to Fosfo. Why Fosfo? Because matches have phosphorous in them, and so it referenced illumination, and the illumination had to do with our mission of … you guessed it: providing information.
The thing failed. I mean, we were already failing because we didn’t have the profit motive cutting our decisions down to what worked. But the name “Fosfo” was when I knew the project was dead.
“Citizens Market” was the perfect name for what our app would do. But no, had to have some web 2.0 jackass giving us a facelift. That was our path to salvation: a rebrand.
What is Musks obsession with the letter X?
He’s a stunted 8 year old who associates X with edginess. X factor. X Men. X Ray. X rated films. XXX. All super fucking cool
He originally wanted “Model 3” to be called “Model E” so that the three (at the time) Tesla models could spell out “SEX”. Fortunately that name was already taken. He’s a petulant child.
I’ll admit, BACK THEN, I thought it was funny and was sad E was taken. But yeah perspective changes when you realize how much worse he is/was/will be.
Also, he’s an unoriginal dipshit. All he’s good at is buying things and slapping his name on 'em, he’s never had an idea of his own.
DJ Khaled Techbro Edition
He’s also good at investing his dad’s slavery money.
I think you are actually correct about this, I dont think it goes any deeper
It marks the spot
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That was complete and public way back in 2017 at the latest
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Realizing Elon Musk is a dipshit is something where the two best times to realize that it is true are 1998, and now
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New logo
Hm, how do images work across instances? Maybe this way?
https://media.kbin.social/media/c9/97/c997d8c329bf759045c432e379534b7687e412b914c86660f9e10f1e5cd7e03c.pngThat’s just perfect. The X on the eye speaks a thousand words.
Beehaw at least seems to use Markdown, so
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For me (on Beehaw) the image is not embedded, just a link +__+ (but the link works 👍)
Yeah, I added the link since the embedded image didn’t seem to work.
The image embedded correctly on Kbin, just FYI.
I’m sure all the brands who are unsure about continuing their advertising on the platform are going to love having to derail their UI teams to go change dozens of different social media icons implementation.
McDonalds Web Team on Friday: “I think we’ve planned a great sprint for Monday everyone. It’ll be tight but we should be ready in time to promote the anniversary of Grimace’s bris!”
McDonalds Web Team on Monday: “Shit”
I’m getting sidetracked here, but I want to give my support of McD’s turning every possible life event Grimace can have into to a new marketing event, so long as each comes with a new Gameboy color game.
lol
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What was that about him doing twitter’s technology policing and leaving running the company to the new CEO?
He’s not even good at using his puppet.
All I can think of when he talks about how “X will be an app for everything” is:
Welcome to Zombocom, you can do anything at Zombocom, Welcome to you. Anything is possible at Zombocom. The infinite is possible at Zombocom. The unobtainable is unknown at Zombocom. Welcome to Zombocom.
They are called TWEETS, ELON! TWEETS!
They are called TWEETS, ELON! TWEETS!
Elon Musk: For now…
I’m legit wondering what the term for communication between…Xs…is…? Like…???
I guess going forward people will be sending [exes] on X using the X app, and subscribing to X’s and unsubscribing to ex’s?
Not a name that’s easy to verbalize.
- What are you doing?
I’m X-ing about the new …
Mistakes made when drunk and lonely
Kisses, like signing letters with X’s and O’s. He’s planning a hard turn to embrace inexplicable twitter based adult industry.
Now they’re going to be exes and ohs.
This seems like an admission that twitter is dead.
Short live X?
It must be incredibly frustrating to be the new CEO that he just appointed, only to have him continuing to run his mouth and make ruinous decisions that tie your hands.
You would have to know this would happen when working for Musk.
Only clearer by the day that this was all an exercise to intentionally kill Twitter to the benefit of billionaires, fascists and other extremists.
Twitter existed as a relatively free and open public space to communicate, organize and assemble to take actions for and against things at scale before musk (e.g. The Arab Spring, a terrifying moment for the Saudis especially - the second largest shareholder behind musk).
When people collectively laughed at elon and his cringe, inbred, emerald boy antics or his humiliating divorce and other routine failures, Twitter was the bullhorn.
Now elon and his desperate far right Toadies will work to try to rewrite reality so they can eventually have this conversation:
"Twitter? What’s a Twitter? Wait, are you talking about blork? A bird? No, blork’s logo is a dinosaur with chainsaw arms… and everyone wants to be his best friend… and it’s against the law to divorce him… and he’s cool… and…"
What an everlasting tool history will remember you as, elon. If they remember you at all, it will be to laugh at you - you’ll never outrun that.
Don’t attribute to malice what is absolutely just idiocy. Musk is not some genius. He is quite literally a man-child who made money because he came from money (and maybe a little luck).
His hubris led to this disaster with twitter—nothing else.
This would make sense if he didn’t constantly amplify right-wing rhetoric and antics. You’d just be ignoring the evidence to think anything else at this point.
I’m not ignoring evidence, I just see an alternative you don’t: He wants attention and he always has. He’s “losing” and the easiest way to get validation is to get it from those that are right-wing. He wants so badly to be treated as “a genius”.
Nobody other than staunch right-wingers believe his non-sense. He only gets headlines because controversy sells.
This is not correct I don’t think. He’s always been right wing, it’s not a new thing. The more important thing is to look at his intentions right before being forced to buy the company.
And those intentions were clearly to use a large amount of cash to bully the company into following his orders. He didn’t like them censoring things. He didn’t like they’re politics. And it was where he spent most of his social media time.
People seem to underestimate the absolute power of elites. He bought an entire company to kill it because he can do that. How many lives will this impact? A ton. All due to the ego of one awful man.
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*Basic plan has a limit of 50 xweets per month.
In ten years some kids in a discord round robin gonna ask why the fake social media in fanfiction are little blue birds. Wait they used to be real??
