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Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll

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Post by ryanmerket »

MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #196
323 wrote: post #58

Elon Musk posted "Vox Populi, Vox Dei" on 19 Oct and 19 Nov. Today is 19 Dec, and in 12 hours he'll post again that the people have spoken. He's playing some sort of game. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1582778449583693836 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593769469741932544

Maybe he's got a stimulant (or other psychoactive) prescription that renews around this time of the month and we're witnessing a periodic, chemically induced mania?

He did admit to being on a new weight loss drug https://www.thequint.com/fit/elon-musk-uses-this-diabetes-dr...

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Post by ajaimk »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #85

I voted No because this is the most interesting content to come out of Twitter in years and the spice must flow. It would've been fine if he published planned policy changes and asked the community for feedback before putting it in place. But actually making random policy changes and then rolling it back hours later is such bad form. The latest policy changes were so half-assed and dumb that it makes me wonder what's…

I just want to watch the world burn

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Post by dekhn »

x0x0 wrote: post #227
phphphphp wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter was fine before Elon, there were no existential risks to it. Everything happening to Twitter today is Elon’s doing. Any story otherwise is Elon’s preferred fiction.

That's not true. Twitter was already losing money, whilst ads, their primary income source, is taking a hit due to economic problems. At the same time, the way they did ads is (the same as FB) running against secular trends against data sharing and privacy. Jack and previous management had utterly failed on the product front. Excluding Spaces and Blue (for news junkies, which already got shot), what product changes h…

Twitter pre-elon had a long runway to slide down. Musk turned that into an "immediate emergency" through unforced errors.

Before, a better leader than Parag could have steered the company to higher profitability- trim some cost/product/teams, improve the ads a bit, and they'd have been back to profitability.

Now, it's unlikely Twitter will survive this mortal blow.

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Post by bitwize »

sytelus wrote: post #274
MonkeyMalarky wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe he's got a stimulant (or other psychoactive) prescription that renews around this time of the month and we're witnessing a periodic, chemically induced mania?

This is actually a very good guess. A vast majority of these ultra-rich population are now on simulants and psychoactive drugs.

And that's a bad thing now that Elon is doing it, whereas previously on Hackernews nootropics together with fasting and gut bacteria husbandry were the key to a long fulfilling life.

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Post by netsharc »

xenospn wrote: post #81
tootie wrote: post #33

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As someone who has muted his account, it's already baked in that only his followers are voting.

I muted his account months ago, but still got the retweets. I voted yes, which seems to be getting momentum and is now leading by a very comfortable margin.

I'd prefer "no" wins and that he's stuck with his fuck up a few more weeks/months... if "yes" wins, he gets his cheap way out without losing face...

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Post by 8note »

yongjik wrote: post #117
aliqot wrote: post #26

Elon owning Twitter is the most public accountability Twitter has ever had. Him owning Twitter, the way he's currently operating, will force a critical eye toward a lot of bad behaviors that we all experience but nobody really talks about on every network. I say bravo. Twitter is dead. Long live Twitter.

> Him owning Twitter, the way he's currently operating, will force a critical eye toward a lot of bad behaviors that we all experience but nobody really talks about on every network. Are you talking as a communist meaning "The society has been too lenient on the class of billionaires, but now that one of them is exposed as a destructive idiot, people will be forced to ask whether the rest of them deserve their power…

It's the same thing as trump in the presidency - many things were uncovered to be norms that people follow, rather than strict law

When run well, social media stays out of the spotlight, with it's issues swept under the rug enough for regulators to not notice. With musk loudly showing those issues, regulatory interest is drawn, and new rules for social media will be crafted for everyone's benefit across all social media

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Post by [deleted] »

JumpinJack_Cash wrote: post #188
pantalaimon wrote: post #99

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> But he still owns it, so who will he put in his place? Lex Fridman just volunteered https://twitter.com/lexfridman/status/1604627087385661440

Amazing this guy was ready to get on his knees for Putin up until January. Lots of stuff are known about Putin since 2000 till January 2022, some perhaps even worse than Ukraine invasion For sure he has a soft spot for Autocrats both in Moscow and in San Francisco

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Post by nkozyra »

FormerBandmate wrote: post #304
woodruffw wrote: post #244

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Bezos is one thing, but I'm not sure if Murdoch is a great example: he perhaps refused to spike specific articles, but his entire media empire is built around promulgating his (increasingly revanchist) politics. His success is attributable not to "staying out of it," but to having a receptive audience that he (to waxing and waning degrees) has successfully influenced for the last 30 years. Besides, I don't think Twit…

Elon is not a savior because no one is purely a savior. He is a genius at hardware who badly needs to shut the fuck up and have people rein him in sometimes. Twitter has always been his weakness, and he needs to have emotional maturity and hire a new CEO, then stay off of it entirely for two weeks

> He is a genius

I realize this is part of his narrative but I struggle to find the genius. As best i can tell he's a generally successful businessman.

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