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Re: Elon has decided not to join our board

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Post by jazzyjackson »

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #29

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.

Besides the character limit, there's an embarrassing number of reasons people might share screenshots of tweets:

- to "retweet" without notifying the person and being linked to as a "quote tweet" on the OP

- to share a post in a controversial context where many people are blocked by the tweeter in question (if you're blocked by someone, you can't read their tweets)

- to share a post you expect will be deleted shortly

- to screengrab a couple of posts that make up necessary context and wouldn't make sense if retweeted on their own

To your point about people using screenreaders etc, it seems to me that it would be fairly trivial (cputime aside) to OCR tweets and automatically apply alt-text, but instead they rely on the uploader to enter it manually.

Re: Elon has decided not to join our board

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Post by Consultant32452 »

smt88 wrote: post #54
axg11 wrote: post #9

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…

I think most people forget or are unaware that Twitter was dying before Trump came in and made it an essential platform for every politician and media outlet.

My bet is that engagement is down with all the moderation. This is not an endorsement of Trump, just an acknowledgement of what made Twitter huge/powerful in the first place.

Re: Elon has decided not to join our board

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Post by [deleted] »

alphabettsy wrote: post #82
axg11 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Elon was not a founder of Tesla. Assuming that was one of the two you were referring to, not that it matters much?

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Re: Elon has decided not to join our board

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Post by jazzyjackson »

cinntaile wrote: post #143
DonHopkins wrote: post #129

So Elon's not going to unleash the Kraken and reinstate Trump's Twitter account? https://www.newsweek.com/conservatives-elon-musk-reinstate-d...

Why would he come back? He now has his own, better social network.

I don't think he's even posted on Truth Social, he's still issuing weird press releases from "The Office of Donald J. Trump"

Re: Elon has decided not to join our board

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Post by Consultant32452 »

lnxg33k1 wrote: post #119

"So we decided that Elon would join our board, and that was in the best path forward, but then Elon decided that he would not join the board and that was also the best decision" You have no idea how much I hate this corporate speech of fried air and buttlickers

I think this was a polite way of saying they couldn't agree on terms of his board position. For example, he would probably have been restricted on the kinds of tweets he could make. He recently started a poll asking if he should turn Twitter HQ into a homeless shelter because so few people show up. They would certainly not want him doing that if he's on the board.

Re: Elon has decided not to join our board

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Post by thetrb »

mostdataisnice wrote: post #187
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps a realist would suspect that Elon is mercurial and easily bored.

It would be an unmitigated disaster to have this dude on the board - his decorum is totally unacceptable

what's also scary is that he could do this with pretty much every public company he wants (very few exceptions of companies with >200B market cap or so).

Re: Elon has decided not to join our board

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Post by onion2k »

smt88 wrote: post #54
axg11 wrote: post #9

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…

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.

Not really. One of the hard things about changing the course of a company is that you actually need people to do the things you want them to do. That means actually being hands on and checking things are getting done. Otherwise people will nod and agree in meetings and then just carry on as they were before. This is especially hard if people are resistant to the changes you want to make.

Taking over and issuing commands doesn't work unless people have nowhere else to go. If Elon tried that at Twitter there would probably be an exodus of engineering and ops people.

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