Elon Musk | Owner of X and right wing man-child
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So why pay the 8 euro?
His wife is an influencer, so it makes sense that he hates social media.
To separate ourselves from peasants.
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So if one pays 8$ or equivalent, does Twitter verify anything or just gives you the blue tick?
It's like a really bad comic book movie.
Sounds like a brilliant idea actually!!
At this rate the Twitter UI is going to look like a NASCAR car soon.
There is no way that that dog is a good dog. Shibas are cnuts and he is too. Will be an absolute nightmare.
Will be interesting to hear you make an actual point here….
The fecking shiba abuse in this thread is bang out of order. I don’t mind calling them cnuts but to keep comparing them to musk - feck right off. My dog is not a musk.
This is a good and reasonable article. Elon Musk made a mistake and now he is floating various ideas trying to find income sources for Twitter. His problem is that if he allows all the trumpists back, then he is in danger of losing advertising revenue. Adding subscriptions might lose him customers. He doesn't have any good options here. He bought Tesla when it was worth nothing and built it up, but for Twitter he bought it at its prime, overpaying for it... hard to see how he can add any value. He messed up this time. He will probably realise it after a while and abandon the whole thing, just writing off his losses.
So he’s saying that the current blue tick will become “Public Figure” and you’ll be able to purchase a blue tick which will now indicate that you have purchased a blue tick.
I think they are saying the algorithm will favour blue ticks and make it far easier to publicly spread a message which i guess means hes essentially selling loudspeakers to people in his digital town square
In future I could imagine it being impossible to quote tweets that dont have a blue tick for example and just a link to the original appears rather than the tweet
That would end Twitter very quickly
Well played.
My ex had one. Fcuking insouciant little sh1te. Well trained and awesome. But she went to some insidious weird Shibu Enu meet up group and almost all of them were horrors.
So his joke about AOC paying $8 makes no sense because she won’t need a blue tick mark.
He's not good at explaining things. Seems to trip himself constantly with his own words. He should hire someone to do it for him.
So basically it makes it meaningless (but actual celebs will get a different algorithm behind the scenes and this will be leaked at some point in the near future)
That's because, and I mean this so much, he's really fecking thick.
The other problem is that people expect subscriptions to services to remove ads. If a lot of people subscribed, the value to advertisers goes way down. Plus, twitter is an inefficient ad platform to begin with except for a narrow selection of companies compared to Facebook and definitely Google so advertisering money will definitely flee if millions of people subscribed and don't see ads. The most effective brands on twitter use it organically anyway like below. I can't see twitter working as a subscription model. WTF wants to pay $8 for twitter - well maybe @Raoul would so he can link tweets here
As much as I think shiba’s are insolent little legends on their own I can’t think of anything worse than pairing them up with others in a group
Much like Elon Musk really. So many similarities!As much as I think shiba’s are insolent little legends on their own I can’t think of anything worse than pairing them up with others in a group
If he wanted an easy way to make ad money, he should slap a video advert over any tweets that are embedded on third party websites like here.
Keep the fecking dogs out of this!!
I read a theory that he’s bought twitter to disrupt the global payments system
kinda makes sense if you look at the people he’s brought in.. ex pay-pal dude, Binance CEO and others from payments industry
kinda makes sense if you look at the people he’s brought in.. ex pay-pal dude, Binance CEO and others from payments industry
Ouch around 50% apparently.
What’s the theory? How is it likely to disrupt the global payments system?
I have no idea if it's likely or not, but I would guess it's unlikely as you'll struggle to get it through congress which is what scuppered Zuckerberg's plans
https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/10/31/the-real-reason-elon-musk-bought-twitter/
theoretically it's possible though as the technology (decentralised ledgers) is closish to being that scalable and the industry is ripe for disruption as the legacy tech is ancient
I don't think I buy that bombastic of a statement
50% employee would cripple Twitter instantly, I honestly don't think any big institution worth 44bn can afford to lose 50% workforce on a whim just like that. Shits are bound to hits the fan.
Regardless of how inefficient Twitter before Elon, I don't believe they're employing 50% more than they need to
Lisa Bloom
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Hey Twitter employees getting laid off tomorrow! IMPORTANT INFO from a CA employment attorney (me):
CA's "WARN" law requires Twitter to give you 60 days notice of a massive layoff.
A layoff of 50+ employees within a 30 day period qualifies.
I know you didn't get that notice.
Can't expect Musk to run his plans by a lawyer, busy tweeting.
Why isn't the dismissal notice being sent to affected employees' work email addresses? Only people being kept on are being notified to their work address apparently, which seems unusual.
Maybe they're being shut out of the system the minute they're being let notified that they're fired.