A small price to pay for them to be killing informational pipelines. It was good to be able to actually talk to politicians in my country, a bit of astroturfing for the greater good.
Because that’s a definite action.
If they wanted twitter destabilised, “giving” it to someone that is going to mismanage it (either deliberately mismanage it, or because they are an egotistical eccentric rich person who aspires to be a tech guru entrepreneur genius) is a much more subtle way to achieve it.
Adding:
Worst case, they have leverage over the company to remove/censor content. Even if that was their initial goal, having twitter collapse is still in their interest
He is bringing back a very carefully selected group of banned people, people he thinks caters to the only specific core audience which remains on twitter: hateful right wing bigots.
He doesn’t have “enough money”. That’s the problem. He took investments from the Saudis and others to pay for Twitter. He puts on a good show, but he’s not spending any more of his money on this fiasco.
So why does he throw fits when he loses advertisers? A person who doesn’t care doesn’t comment on it and say “Fuck yourself” to Bob Iger and call for him to be sacked.
Here’s a good comparison I’ve found: let’s say you have a company and issue one million shares. You sell just a single one for $1. Now “technically” you own $999,999 worth of shares, even though you actually have one dollar.
His Tesla and SpaceX shares are worth a lot, but they’re not cash. If he started selling huge amounts, then the value would drop rapidly.
He is bringin back banned ppl psychopaths and bigots, he is showing he doesn’t care about hurt advertiser fifis and he has enough money not to care :P is a straight up bitch and wants all his incel followers to hate like he does.
Pissing off advertisers is not a great business strategy. It’s not that their feelings are hurt, it’s that ads for Pepsi and Apple were showing up next to neo-Nazi posts, giving users the impression that the advertisers actively endorse the posts. People generally don’t like being associated with Nazis. Maybe you’re comfortable with that association (if so, seek help), but most of us aren’t down with genocidal maniacs who want to purge the world of non-white citizens and rule with an iron fist. I know, we’re funny that way, not wanting to endorse and spread the sentiments of mass murderers.
He is bringin back banned ppl, he is showing he doesn’t care about hurt advertiser fifis and he has enough money not to care :P
We’ll see how the Saudis feel about him pissing away their money. Gonna be taking that Tesla stock from him
You say that like the Saudi’s aren’t cool with taking Twitter down. It was the cause of a lot of strife and issues during the “Arab Spring” years.
I suspect they’re overjoyed it’s tanking.
A small price to pay for them to be killing informational pipelines. It was good to be able to actually talk to politicians in my country, a bit of astroturfing for the greater good.
Yep those kinda of governments thrive best when there isn’t an easy way for common people to spread news about them and organize.
I don’t see the point of this whole charade, rebranding, slow death. Why not just buy it and close all servers if that’s their goal?
Because that’s a definite action.
If they wanted twitter destabilised, “giving” it to someone that is going to mismanage it (either deliberately mismanage it, or because they are an egotistical eccentric rich person who aspires to be a tech guru entrepreneur genius) is a much more subtle way to achieve it.
Adding:
Worst case, they have leverage over the company to remove/censor content. Even if that was their initial goal, having twitter collapse is still in their interest
I don’t think they care, as long as it becomes a shadow of what it was.
And if it succeeded and made them money? Who are they to complain?
It’s a win win in their books.
I don’t Musk even knows he’s being played as the fool.
He is bringing back a very carefully selected group of banned people, people he thinks caters to the only specific core audience which remains on twitter: hateful right wing bigots.
He doesn’t have “enough money”. That’s the problem. He took investments from the Saudis and others to pay for Twitter. He puts on a good show, but he’s not spending any more of his money on this fiasco.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/10/31/saudi-prince-alwaleed-becomes-twitters-second-largest-shareholder/
So why does he throw fits when he loses advertisers? A person who doesn’t care doesn’t comment on it and say “Fuck yourself” to Bob Iger and call for him to be sacked.
He doesn’t have money.
Here’s a good comparison I’ve found: let’s say you have a company and issue one million shares. You sell just a single one for $1. Now “technically” you own $999,999 worth of shares, even though you actually have one dollar.
His Tesla and SpaceX shares are worth a lot, but they’re not cash. If he started selling huge amounts, then the value would drop rapidly.
He is bringin back
banned pplpsychopaths and bigots, he is showing hedoesn’t care about hurt advertiser fifis and he has enough money not to care :Pis a straight up bitch and wants all his incel followers to hate like he does.Pissing off advertisers is not a great business strategy. It’s not that their feelings are hurt, it’s that ads for Pepsi and Apple were showing up next to neo-Nazi posts, giving users the impression that the advertisers actively endorse the posts. People generally don’t like being associated with Nazis. Maybe you’re comfortable with that association (if so, seek help), but most of us aren’t down with genocidal maniacs who want to purge the world of non-white citizens and rule with an iron fist. I know, we’re funny that way, not wanting to endorse and spread the sentiments of mass murderers.