Welcome to Hell, Elon

#1

Post by balaga01 » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 1:43 PM UTC

Re: Welcome to Hell, Elon

#2

Post by mikkergp » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 2:19 PM UTC

“ Twitter, the company, makes very little interesting technology; the tech stack is not the valuable asset. The asset is the user base: hopelessly addicted politicians, reporters, celebrities, and other people who should know better but keep posting anyway. You! You, Elon Musk, are addicted to Twitter. You’re the asset. You just bought yourself for $44 billion dollars.”

Re: Welcome to Hell, Elon

#3

Post by labrador » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 2:30 PM UTC

My first thought when Musk bought Twitter was "His engineering has team figured out content moderation" but I've seen no evidence or talk of that. So I think it's true that he impulsively bought himself his worst nightmare.

Re: Welcome to Hell, Elon

#4

Post by erellsworth » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 2:38 PM UTC

You done messed up E-Elon.

Re: Welcome to Hell, Elon

#5

Post by datalopers » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 2:40 PM UTC

labrador wrote: post #3

My first thought when Musk bought Twitter was "His engineering has team figured out content moderation" but I've seen no evidence or talk of that. So I think it's true that he impulsively bought himself his worst nightmare.

He's going find it's tough growing a company without a constant flow of government contracts and subsidies.

Re: Welcome to Hell, Elon

#6

Post by LatteLazy » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 2:41 PM UTC

It's very very unclear to me why he bought it.

He said it was about free speech but Twitter is already about as free as it's possible to be without permitting a whole bunch of content that is NOT protected under the first amendment (CP, calls to violence etc).

And if it is about free speech then it cannot be an automated moderation play, because there is nothing to moderate if you're a pure free speech platform.

The best I can guess, is it's a political play? Turn down politicians who he dislikes? Or he just had a drunk/high/bipolar period and did it without a plan.

Re: Welcome to Hell, Elon

#7

Post by dsfyu404ed » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 2:41 PM UTC

datalopers wrote: post #5

labrador wrote: post #3

My first thought when Musk bought Twitter was "His engineering has team figured out content moderation" but I've seen no evidence or talk of that. So I think it's true that he impulsively bought himself his worst nightmare.

He's going find it's tough growing a company without a constant flow of government contracts and subsidies.

I'm pretty sure every MBA ever is laughing at the implicit assumptions in the article and these comments. It might not be pretty but there are other ways than growth to make a company more profitable/valuable...

Re: Welcome to Hell, Elon

#8

Post by andsoitis » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 2:42 PM UTC

labrador wrote: post #3

My first thought when Musk bought Twitter was "His engineering has team figured out content moderation" but I've seen no evidence or talk of that. So I think it's true that he impulsively bought himself his worst nightmare.

> bought himself his worst nightmare.

His twitter profile currently says "Chief Twit". Teenage boy level humor but the joke is on the joker.

Re: Welcome to Hell, Elon

#9

Post by pipeline_peak » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 2:42 PM UTC

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Re: Welcome to Hell, Elon

#10

Post by andsoitis » Fri, Oct 28, 2022, 2:44 PM UTC

labrador wrote: post #3

My first thought when Musk bought Twitter was "His engineering has team figured out content moderation" but I've seen no evidence or talk of that. So I think it's true that he impulsively bought himself his worst nightmare.

> His engineering has team figured out content moderation

Which of his engineering teams? Tesla? SpaceX? I don't see why they would be working on content moderation.