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Is it ironic that a text image is used by Twitter to bypass character limits on a post? This has to be a usability nightmare for differently abled people.
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Everything you said is true but there is an alternative perspective: Elon founded two of the most successful companies in existence. Both companies heavily innovated on hard technological problems in order to achieve commercial success. Hence, he's an operator with experience solving difficult challenges, making him qualified for the board seat.
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Elon's companies have a unique and very different culture in comparison to Twitter. Of course, Elon was not set to be CEO, but to your point, the prospect of "Elon-ification" of Twitter was going to upset a lot of employees. The part I don't get: why is Elon still tweeting ideas for improving Twitter and shaking things up?
> The part I don't get: why is Elon still tweeting ideas for improving Twitter and shaking things up? That is weird, trolling doesn't seem like Elon's thing at all.
A very odd set of events and no explanation regarding Elon's change of mind. A pessimist would think that Elon has decided to go for a "hostile" takeover since he is no longer bound by the percentage holding cap. An optimistic would think that Elon had enough self-awareness to realize it would be an overall distraction for Twitter with little benefit. It amuses me more than it should that the CEO of Twitter has poste…
> An optimistic would think that Elon had enough self-awareness to realize it would be an overall distraction for Twitter with little benefit. Assuming Musk did take over Twitter, he wouldn't need to be much of a distraction. He could dictate a few rules (don't moderate Twitter, don't ban anyone, etc.) and then leave the company to function as it did before. I think what he doesn't realize is that reducing moderation…
Wait "contingent on a background check"? This is the founder of SpaceX a contractor with NASA and DoD and you're gonna run measly background check on him? He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR.
> He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR. Not necessarily. It's as equally likely that he does not have any clearances and could not pass a background check, either with the government or the kind that Twitter's regulatory compliance people want. In the case of companies that do work with the Department of Defense, it is not unusual for managers to have people who work for them who hold clearan…
Matt Levine on point: Twitter’s relatively new chief executive officer, Parag Agrawal: Welcome, Mr. Musk. We’re so glad that you are our biggest shareholder. We have prepared a presentation showing how we are executing on our strategy of being more technically nimble, building new products and growing revenue and active users. Here on slide 1 you can see— Elon Musk: Make the font bigger when I tweet. Agrawal: What? M…
Wait "contingent on a background check"? This is the founder of SpaceX a contractor with NASA and DoD and you're gonna run measly background check on him? He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR.
He did not pass the background check because he claimed to co-found Tesla. Here: https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk -- "Elon Musk co-founded and leads Tesla" But actually he wasn't a co-founder. He simply bought shares of Tesla 1 year after it was founded. This is the red flag, so he failed the background check. True story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003%E2%...
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Does he do that? What did he Invest in something/Tweet/Violate FTC/Profit from? If you're referring to Tesla, you missed the part where he: Lead the delivery of a ridiculous amount of value to the company unrelated to any tweets.
> What did he Invest in something/Tweet/Violate FTC/Profit from? Dogecoin and Bitcoin. He pumped and dumped the former pretty directly. He pumped and dumped Bitcoin by saying that Tesla would start to accept it as payment, and then he said that the price was too volatile and they wouldn't actually do that anymore. He pumped and dumped Bitcoin again later, but I forget the circumstances.
Did Elon profit from that? i.e. He bought at the bottom and sold at the top? Or did he lose along with everyone else in the "dump" phase?
Bitcoin: You don't have to trust anyone... except Elon.
Wait "contingent on a background check"? This is the founder of SpaceX a contractor with NASA and DoD and you're gonna run measly background check on him? He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR.
> He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR. Not necessarily. It's as equally likely that he does not have any clearances and could not pass a background check, either with the government or the kind that Twitter's regulatory compliance people want. In the case of companies that do work with the Department of Defense, it is not unusual for managers to have people who work for them who hold clearan…