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Re: Elon has decided not to join our board

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Post by gitfan86 »

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…

If you work at Twitter and you have spent more than 5 hours a week on non job related slack channels at any time over the past 3 years you need to look for a new job. Elon is going to take over and fire about 80% of the employees and run it efficiently like his other companies.

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Post by HWR_14 »

throwaway4good wrote: post #317
perihelions wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- "CEO of Twitter has posted an image of text (from the iOS Notes app?)" At least he made the effort to include accessible alt-text. (Interestingly, the accessible text differs *slightly* from the picture-of-text version -- different draft revisions? Even social media CEO's don't seem comfortable with this workflow). edit: here's a diff with highlighting: https://i.imgur.com/R9wf2H5.png I'm relying on Verge's transcr…

It is all very odd: Why mention fiduciary responsibilities, background check, formal approval, we are in control unless all these things were in question?

It could be a legal CYA to explain why the board seat was tweeted about but didn't happen. It may be that list is standard boilerplate and needed to be referenced.

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

raspberry1337 wrote: post #398
rsynnott wrote: post #397

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Just like Trump he has a personal brand big enough to jumpstart a social network That appears to be an embarrassing failure, tho. And Musk's personal brand is much smaller than Trump's.

>And Musk's personal brand is much smaller than Trump' The world is larger than just the USA. Elon has an international following that probably outsizes what's left of Trumps crazy republicans.

I’m outside US and if you go outside the city you’ll be surprised how many people you encounter that were/still are fans of him, much more than people who know who Elon Musk is. Think it was easy to underestimate it when you’re in the city/tech bubbles.

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Post by ekianjo »

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

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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

> his decorum is totally unacceptable

Because Twitter's decorum's track record is better? You must have missed an episode or two.

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Post by giraffe_lady »

manquer wrote: post #166
steve_adams_86 wrote: post #35

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There is decent alt text on the image, but I can’t speak to how well Twitter works with a screen reader in order to access it.

However the Alt text version is slightly different from the posted one , so not really good substitute.

There's no requirement or inherent value in them being identical. They should provide as much of the same essential information as possible, and in this case they do. It's reasonable for the main image to include more non-essential data or aesthetic flourishes than the alt, which again is the case here.

There are definitely accessibility issues with using images as a text medium, mainly that the poster has to be aware of the accessibility issues and specifically choose to alleviate them. But that was done here.

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Post by core-utility »

throwaway4good wrote: post #400
rsynnott wrote: post #397

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Just like Trump he has a personal brand big enough to jumpstart a social network That appears to be an embarrassing failure, tho. And Musk's personal brand is much smaller than Trump's.

The Trump stuff is hard to understand; seems like he had such a massive oppurtunity.

He had a market, but simultaneously didn't if that makes any sense. The world didn't need another Twitter clone, it already had Parler and Gettr. Social networks are difficult to get users onto because people want to go where their "friends" are, so you're not just convincing one user individually. Getting wide enough adoption to where users actually use the platform regularly is difficult.

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Post by relaxing »

gitfan86 wrote: post #411
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…

If you work at Twitter and you have spent more than 5 hours a week on non job related slack channels at any time over the past 3 years you need to look for a new job. Elon is going to take over and fire about 80% of the employees and run it efficiently like his other companies.

That’s a thing? People wasting hours on Slack is a rampant issue?

Re: Elon has decided not to join our board

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Post by hajhatten »

Hallucinaut wrote: post #382
hajhatten wrote: post #244

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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…

Enough people want the feature, whether you see the point or not.

Re: Elon has decided not to join our board

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Post by core-utility »

seanw444 wrote: post #229

So one of the requirements of being a board member is not exceeding a certain amount of stock ownership. And then he says "nevermind, actually." Sounds like Elon wants some more stock.

I'm in this line of belief too. I think I heard it's somewhere around 14.9% cap if he's on the board. Sounds like he knows where he can be more influential without restrictions.
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