If I think they should be called Sxeets, does that put me on Team Sxeet? Brb, gonna watch some x videos.
Hot take incoming, but I wonder if maybe the difference with Twitter versus Elon’s other companies is that someone in Elon’s position can have a much more direct line to the output of making software than he can to making physical products. Like when you’re making a car, or a rocket, you’re working with all kinds of engineers who work within the constraints of a global supply chain that has a lot of preparation, work, and time between the conception of an idea and when it rolls out on a factory line; you could perhaps view that process as something that naturally moderates Elon’s wild, neurotic tendencies & natural desire to fuck everything up.
At Twitter? lol he can go stand behind the desk of the guy who leads the team working on whatever feature and just, like, tell him what to do and how this thing should look and work and tell him he’s fired if it’s not shipped how he wants in a week. Software is all made up, there’s nothing impeding him from imposing his madness on the product.
He’s pissed he got roped into buying the company.
Then he’s pissed that no one appreciates his genius.
So now he’s deliberately destroying the parts of Twitter that his enemies liked. He’s just too narcissistic to realize that he’s destroying everything of any value. I’m sure in his mind, it’s his enemies fault that Twitter is imploding. Or maybe he hasn’t even realized yet that it’s imploding.
I think this is definitely in play. It would make sense if he bought it to wreck it on behalf of the Saudis and/or Putin, while being funneled money by them elsewhere. The Saudi public investment fund is making it rain on a lot of people right now, so that’s my guess.
Nah. Occam’s razor. He’s just a fucking moron. Look at how hard he tried to get out of the deal, only capitulating at the last possible moment when it was clear he was going to lose and be forced to buy it anyway.
And he hates it because it isn’t his, so he’s going to change it until it is
The drug angle actually makes a lot of sense, I feel like half his ideas are exactly what Kendall Roy would come up with after an enormous coke bender. Honestly it may be the best of the “simple” explanations.
With the latest thing, I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a sudden moment of clarity and has all the original branding put back, and then writes a whole series of strangely condescending tweets about how nobody understood it was all a joke.
I would have kept the bird but added a glow stick to its mouth.
Hahahaha
IANAL but that sounds an awful lot like extortion and the people he’s trying to extort wrote the laws. Actually being a lawyer probably isn’t super important in this spot and might impede many lawyers from seeing just how stupid this is. It’s not the hands it’s the size of the stacks you’re playing with.
Uhhhh so this happened today?
The account belonged to Dom Lucre, described by BBC reporter Shayan Sardarizadeh as a “right-wing conspiracy theorist and QAnon follower” who is “one of the biggest conspiracy accounts on Twitter,” with posts that regularly received millions of impressions.
Right-wingers can post “child exploitation pictures” and Elon’s like “ehhhhh that’s okay, who among us”???
The but for the grace of God go I.