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Ask HN: Is Elon Musk Destroying Twitter?
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#2yes
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#3No
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#4Makes you glad he's just a figurehead at SpaceX, doesn't it?
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#5Elon isn't trying to destroy Twitter. It looks like he is making impulsive, uninformed decisions... Kinda like a Twitter user shooting off Tweets.
Therefore it's hard to say how fast the ship is sinking, if at all. He could make a brillant change tomorrow, then do something horrific 80 seconds later, and who knows what the net effect would be.
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#6Nope. The (people aka) users, who are ... most educated, most intelligent and, ... most followed, are destroying twitter.
In somewhat more comprehensible terms: ... the golden calves are destroying twitter, not the guy who bought the thing from the guy who had no fucking idea what he was doing until someone told him ... (aka ... the dog).
Re: Ask HN: Is Elon Musk Destroying Twitter?
#7Nope. The (people aka) users, who are ... most educated, most intelligent and, ... most followed, are destroying twitter. In somewhat more comprehensible terms: ... the golden calves are destroying twitter, not the guy who bought the thing from the guy who had no fucking idea what he was doing until someone told him ... (aka ... the dog).
Elon Musk is currently the most followed person on Twitter.
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#8He's definitely destroying Twitter as we knew it. Whether something new will come from it remains to be seen. I wouldn't hold my breath, but I'm not going to claim to be psychic.
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#9Yes. The only real question is whether he's trying to or it's just happening anyway.
When your competitor is Mark Zuckerberg and he can moot an alternative with the sole USP being "sanely run", and this sounds like a positive development, you know value is being destroyed.
But this was predictable way back, including for instance the Thai cave rescue, where his suggestion being shot down led him to make unwarranted, vile personal attacks.
Elon Musk comes across as a malignant narcissist. Twitter is his narcissistic supply. It is going as well as anyone remotely informed would have predicted.
He could have got out of this for a couple of billion dollars, a telling off, and a small hit to his credibility with backers. But no. He has had his thin skin exposed, and everything avoidable that has happened since is the inevitable consequence of him lashing out while decompensating.
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#10I think the simple explanation seems to be that he vastly overpaid for it, tried his best to get out of buying, and now that he has sunk all this money into it, he is trying all quickfire ways of making money via Twitter (most of which seem ridiculously bad but I doubt there are many good options for making good money via Twitter).