Thought experiment: What if Elon Musk is ensuring that Twitter fails on purpose? What would be the benefit?
Ask HN: What if Elon Musk is tanking Twitter on purpose?
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#2To us or to him?
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#3I don't see how anyone can call the Twitter debacle an accident, so I have to conclude Musk does what he does intentionally, though possibly without a clear purpose. He alone has almost absolute control over the company.
What does Musk stand to gain by tanking Twitter? I don't know. Nor do I know what he thought he might gain by buying it. His explanation -- that he wants to save free speech for all humanity -- sounds so delusional and self-important I took it as either insincere or narcissistic. Given his history I settled on narcissism.
I don't doubt that if Twitter fails Musk will blame lazy and disloyal employees (or former employees), sabotage, the "woke left," spineless advertisers, greedy bankers. He won't see fault in his own actions, ignorance, failure to plan or set a course for the company. He already blamed "activists" for scaring off advertisers.
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#4Elon is creating a PR storm around twitter so news companies keep talking about twitter, this is driving user engagement.
Everyone is talking about twitter, this is no accident.
Musk is trying to shed the maximum amount of people as possible before things break. Then he will rebuild the staff with new people under a new culture and vision. Similar to Japanese plan to population replace islands it took over during WWII.
This is a huge PR play, and so far its working. Twitter stories are everywhere.
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#5I don’t buy this theory mostly because his ego is too big to do so without saying it. Plus given the texts with his friends and partners, it seems like he really really wanted to turn it into something, he just has no idea what.
I think this is just his “emperors got no clothes” moment.
However I do think when it fails, he will about turn and make up an excuse about how it was intentional.
Consider this a billionaire mid life crisis
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#6Certain authoritarian regimes that have provided him with financing might be glad that their critics no longer have a platform to reach the masses with, and consider it a cost of doing business, and gladly take the loss.
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#7Elon is creating a PR storm around twitter so news companies keep talking about twitter, this is driving user engagement. Everyone is talking about twitter, this is no accident. Musk is trying to shed the maximum amount of people as possible before things break. Then he will rebuild the staff with new people under a new culture and vision. Similar to Japanese plan to population replace islands it took over during WWI…
I wish people here would stop talking about this.
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#8Twitter allows anyone to jump into a tweet and confront the dogma, people see it, and they get food for thoughts
That's what they want to cancel, the ability for anyone to become an actor and defy the establishment
With the verification for all, and the suppression of non verified accounts, they want to make sure everyone is uniquely identifiable on the platform so they can target him and silence him if he causes problems (response to a tweet to callout a propaganda for example)
The project is clear, digital ID(internet passport), and democratization of the digital currency (digital EURODOLLAR)
Remember what TikTok's parent company is building (digital marketplace and everything that comes with it)
Musk is fabricated
Ask yourself these simple questions:
- why he get free pass for everything
- why the press gives him the red carpet
- why is he allowed to do everything he is doing? it should be considered national security ;)
- why is he allowed to play with crypto like that, the US doesn't like it when Middle East tries to use something other than the petro dollar
I have other questions but i'll share them on a different occasion
Strangely enough, i feel like hackernews could become the Twitter Alternative, the place for "civil journalism"
I see less and less "flagged" comments, this is encouraging and promising
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#9I don't see how anyone can call the Twitter debacle an accident, so I have to conclude Musk does what he does intentionally, though possibly without a clear purpose. He alone has almost absolute control over the company. What does Musk stand to gain by tanking Twitter? I don't know. Nor do I know what he thought he might gain by buying it. His explanation -- that he wants to save free speech for all humanity -- sound…
Agree it's not accident. He's got slylink, now he's got a media platform. Best make everyone quit and rehire to his benefit
Re: Ask HN: What if Elon Musk is tanking Twitter on purpose?
#10heres my theory;
Thiel and/or Trump have incentivized Elon to break twitter for 2024, as it’s an echo chamber for uniting the left and cancelling the right. When Trump wins 24, all of Elon’s companies get special treatment. Conspiracy? yes maybe and I have no proof, except that Elon just bought a company for 44 billion dollars and 2 weeks later is floating the idea of bankruptcy.
I also wonder if the FTX collapse needs a second review. There goes the left’s second largest donor.