Elon Musk trying to buy Twitter (edit: deal has been finalized)

[osh kosh bosh]

Elon going through all this drama
to comeback to the same moderation policy twitter already had.

 

[moonman818]

Maybe he thinks all this drama and attention will bring more users to Twitter?

 

[trynafeelmink]

Maybe he thinks all this drama and attention will bring more users to Twitter?

We've seen this work the majority of Twitter, People will forever flock to things they "hate"

 

[Brownstone]

Truly crazy to watch

World Cup next week too!

 

[daruma]

 

[boxer15]

 

[Frankie Blue]

 

[finallyfamous]

Musk lol.

This dude is wild man. He don't give a **** though.

 

[Platinum State]

This is all so weird man. Even if Elon torpedoes twitter and loses all of the 44b he bought it for he still got 150b left. Its literally a toy for him

 

[storm2006]

This is all so weird man. Even if Elon torpedoes twitter and loses all of the 44b he bought it for he still got 150b left. Its literally a toy for him

Which is kind of ****ed up when you think about it. Myself and millions of others use Twitter as a legitimate news resource and this dude just revamped the platform and tanked it in the process. It is ignorant and negligent as hell tbh.

 

[whywesteppin]

but very little of that is actual cash. if one domino falls...

 

[mplsdunk]

Coal>cash

 

[executive76]

We've seen this work the majority of Twitter, People will forever flock to things they "hate"

It's like an accident of the side of the road. People just want to watch the show.

A good amount of "hate"/"outrage" is performative.

 

[whywesteppin]

bitcoal is the future

 

[executive76]

 

[Mark Antony]

Ehh, he's got enough D riders plus people who love attention to keep it around.

 

[osh kosh bosh]

Bring Trump back. That would help the Democrats.

 

[RustyShackleford]

Watch him bring back Trump, and then Trump starts ****ting on him immediately

 

[DCAllAfrican]

 

[Cashflow]

 

[Frankie Blue]

 

[whywesteppin]

There's this running narrative on Twitter from tech bros (really they are sales reps / Musk apologists) that 10% of people do 90% of the work, hence why he is firing a bunch of the Twitter staff. It's a terrible premise. The NBA equivalent would be "10% of your staff score 90% of your points, so fire everybody on the bench and all the coaches and trainers".

It also assumes that all coding is high level stuff that requires a once-in-a-lifetime genius when the reality is that a lot of coding is more just tedious, drawn out work. If anything, you don't want your 10 percenter geniuses wasting his or her time debugging for errors.

Twitter is incredibly complicated under the hood to be able to handle the massive amount of information and users with almost no lag. That must've taken a lot of smart coders a lot of time to build. If anything, the place to improve Twitter is from the top in terms of choosing what features to add and how to improve moderation and how to prioritize content. The site runs remarkably well. But Musk has decided code/server efficiency is where he wants to focus his energy, but with half the staff or less. Good luck.

 

[Frankie Blue]

 

[RustyShackleford]

This dude is still not taking this **** seriously

 

[americangenius]

I thought Twitter was dead