I put zero stock in this. He's on a continuum, capricious to liar. I would not be surprised if the poll goes against him, he orders a minion to fake votes in his favor. I also wouldn't be surprised if people who vote against him get banned. shrug It's his fief.
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#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everyone with expertise in social media hates Elon's high-level vision.
Does he even have a high level vision beyond generating a reaction? (The "free speech platform" sounded like a vision, but we wouldn't have new banning offences every five minutes if that had been a serious consideration rather than something he said for the likes)
His high level vision was to create "X the everything app" in the style of mega-apps offered by Chinese tech giants. Not only does this vision require clearing massive regulatory hurdles, secure immense amount of capital funding, and acquire/build a highly diversified portofolio of companies covering multiple unrelated consumer sectors, there's probably nobody willing or capable to take that job.
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#253Earlier quoted context omitted.
Let’s try. I suggest Kalanick or Neumann!
A trifecta: Trump, Kanye, and ... hmm, Kim Jong-un?
I was actually thinking Joe Rogan.
Unfortunately Mr Kim is apparently unavailable because he’s on parental and nuclear rocket building leave for the time being.
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#254If this is originating from Qatar, I would speculate this poll is the result of a bet. The Emir, or another royal family member offers to make Elon whole on his $40B investment if he is willing to put his future in the hands of his users/subjects. If Elon wins, the Emir pays out, maybe for a small equity stake, and if Elon loses, the Emir gets to pick the new CEO of Twitter, and probably buys a significant equity sta…
love it. The Emir right now could use a megaphone to deal with those pesky Belgians.
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#255I do wonder if Elon has some ulterior, smarter motive, and his antics are just for show.
Like for instance, convincing people to move to Mastodon (a decentralized service) so that it becomes mainstream and censorship becomes harder.
Also that, words are cheap, so what Elon is doing isn't catapulting his net worth and reputation that much. The concrete actions he took (50% layoffs, Twitter Blue, suspending journalists but then unsuspending them) aren't too unhinged.
That being said, it's common to form long-winded conspiracies around the obvious truth. Extreme wealth, extreme recognition, and an army of yes-men have a really strong influence, maybe Elon is becoming insane.
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#256I’m indifferent as to his position at Twitter, so could have voted no without internal conflict.
However, I voted yes because I want to see if he’ll honour his word, it’s more that yes is the active choice rather than any comment on his leadership.
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#257I'm sorry, can someone with serious business acumen please eli5: What is it again CEOs do? Because I thought they got paid the big bucks to make decisions. /s
> Because I thought they got paid the big bucks to make decisions.
To be fair to the lunatic currently in charge of Twitter, I don't think he's actually getting big bucks to be CEO, is he?
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#258Re: Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll
#259Can we please stop falling for this obvious tactic? How many days in a row does he have to do something seemingly-unhinged, and then follow it with some spectacle of a poll to shift the narrative? Is it really that easy ?
It’s possible that in Elon’s mind having a poll dictate that he step down could be a face saving measure.
Of all the suggestions of his internal mind-state, this one seems most likely to me. He needs a way to get out without quitting and being "forced" out when nobody can really do that is better than saying "fuck it" and walking away.
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#260He should not, obviously. He needs to run Twitter to the ground first. So far, it's been going beautifully.