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He'd have to convert first.
Convert to what?
Heretic !
Elon has decided not to join our board
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#382Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, is 'qualifying as a troll' really about appealing to the connoisseurs, the academy of trolling experts? Or is it about making the most people the angriest? It's like arguing about whether McDonald's is good food. Some people think that suggesting an Edit button is telling. "Here is the only imaginable use of an edit button. You post a tweet saying “I love puppies” with a picture of a cute puppy. A thousand peop…
There are fixes to this though. Limit the time the tweet is editable, and postpone publishing tweets until that timer has run out. Or show a history of what the post has looked like.
The former would completely negate the point of editing vs. deleting which one can already do.
The latter... perhaps, I guess? But then why bother? Are people so desperate to keep their internet points proxies by retweets and likes that they can't fathom reposting if there was an egregious error?
To me the whole exercise is one of malicious populism. It's an idea that appears liberty-generating on the surface and is used to gather a mob but has no real utility.
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#383It’s funny that the first paragraph of the letter says they believed it was best for Elon to join the board. Then the second paragraph says that Elon declined to join the board and they believe it was also for the best.
I have seen worse PR releases, I haven't seen worse PR releases from a company of this size and profile. There is some kind of irony in a communication platform offering a presser that contains so little information and so many words...particularly as the platform limits the number of characters that users can communicate. Really earning that $30m/year. I would fuck up an important press release for half that price.
> particularly as the platform limits the number of characters that users can communicate.
The irony of them sharing it as an image!
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#384A 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 optimist would think he's going to take it over. Look at his track record. Tesla and SpaceX are industry defining achievements. Fixing Twitter isn't as hard as that.
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#385Not a surprise if you’ve read any of Musk’s tweets this past weeks. He sounds unhinged. He’s like Kanye West. Occasionally says and does great things but more often than not is tweeting nonsense that could damage the company/brand. You cannot have a board member polling users as to whether or not HQ should be converted to a refugee for the homeless. The uncertainty and stress nonsense like that must cause for employe…
>You cannot have a board member polling users as to whether or not HQ should be converted to a refugee for the homeless. This was a response to Bezos's tweet. Thanks to that tweet I learned that Amazon is already doing this in Seattle.
Bezos's tweet was a response to Elon's poll, not vice versa. Elon's response to Bezos's tweet was something like "Good idea"
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#386Elon Musk could insist on appointing a board member to represent his interests while still maintaining enough separation to criticize openly.
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#387Reading between the lines and the PR speak a little bit: 1. Parag is covering his own ass and making clear that the initial announcement was always contingent on a few things and not a done deal. 2. He is heavily implying that being a fiduciary of the company and having to act in its best interests (including, I imagine, not randomly criticizing it in public or promising non-existent features) was the deal breaker fo…
I'm wondering if it's the twitter polls that killed it. I bet twitter polls about how to run twitter from a board member, with no intention to follow through from other board members, would count as misleading investors to the SEC.
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#388It’s funny that the first paragraph of the letter says they believed it was best for Elon to join the board. Then the second paragraph says that Elon declined to join the board and they believe it was also for the best.
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Re: Elon has decided not to join our board
#389Reading between the lines and the PR speak a little bit: 1. Parag is covering his own ass and making clear that the initial announcement was always contingent on a few things and not a done deal. 2. He is heavily implying that being a fiduciary of the company and having to act in its best interests (including, I imagine, not randomly criticizing it in public or promising non-existent features) was the deal breaker fo…
Sounds like Elon didn't accept Twitter's conditions for joining the board.
For Twitter this is serious; Elon could destroy Twitter.
Sell it again, and create (or buy) an alternative.
Just like Trump he has a personal brand big enough to jumpstart a social network, and unlike Trump (it seems) he could probably build it.