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I'd be surprised if that happens in any meaningful scale. Twitter just doesn't justify that type of investment anymore.
Yeah, but for some reason journalists think X is still worth it, even though it goes against everything they stand for. X is not Twitter, yet journos can’t kick the habit.
It's a trick X-chan is using to boost link clickthroughs and brag to advertisers.
It's also a malware author's dream, but that's another discussion.
I am so tired of reading this. Just call it Twitter. Nobody on earth thinks X is a good change other than Elon and his reply guys.
An added bonus is that it will make him mad, and it’s funny when he’s mad.
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Yeah, but without step 3.
I don't get it. I just don't. People use to claim that Musk bought Twitter just to burn it down, but even he doesn't have $43B to light on fire. (An open aside to readers: please don't reply about tax write-offs unless you actually understand how they work.) Does he genuinely, sincerely think things like this will work out well in the long run?
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I don't get it. I just don't. People use to claim that Musk bought Twitter just to burn it down, but even he doesn't have $43B to light on fire. (An open aside to readers: please don't reply about tax write-offs unless you actually understand how they work.) Does he genuinely, sincerely think things like this will work out well in the long run?
I actually don’t doubt Musk’s sincerity. He’s always been an opinionated user of the platform. I still think he’s under the impression he bought a technology company, not a media company, and has stopped listening to contrary opinions.
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Yeah, but without step 3.
I don't get it. I just don't. People use to claim that Musk bought Twitter just to burn it down, but even he doesn't have $43B to light on fire. (An open aside to readers: please don't reply about tax write-offs unless you actually understand how they work.) Does he genuinely, sincerely think things like this will work out well in the long run?
I’m not totally sure why this is, and it seems to mostly be just a Musk thing; when Yahoo periodically wakes from its slumber to make the Yahoo Finance UI inexplicably worse or whatever, say, no-one attributes that to any evil plot; it’s just Yahoo continuing to be rather bad at running Yahoo.
I suppose that some people still think of him as a magical supergenius, but even ignoring the Twitter product fuckups, that’s just really hard to sustain these days.
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I actually don’t doubt Musk’s sincerity. He’s always been an opinionated user of the platform. I still think he’s under the impression he bought a technology company, not a media company, and has stopped listening to contrary opinions.
If he thought he was buying a technology company, why did he spend so much time insisting the tech stack was garbage and the engineering staff incompetent? Aside from those, what other reason is there to buy a tech company?
But once he had it, he’s been concentrating on the technical stack as if that was the biggest problem. Musk spent so much time there because he’s bad at this and focuses on the wrong things, because those are the things he’s good at. I think he is a really good engineering CEO but Twitter’s problems are 90% social.
I like how Musk claims it was done for aesthetic reasons. Yes, we can see from the site design that you care deeply about aesthetics...
Agreed. Check out this animation posted by Elon Musk in the last few days https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1710561314278379959 where the X jerks slightly before it rotates, and then rotates off-center...
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Agreed. Check out this animation posted by Elon Musk in the last few days https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1710561314278379959 where the X jerks slightly before it rotates, and then rotates off-center...
That ever-so-slightly off-center rotation bothers me to a supreme degree... but I guess it's fitting for the whole platform writ large.
If you want to be really disturbed .. follow the source and see if you can spot any tell tale signs of just how rabid a fan that particular fan might be.
Less a Musk fan work, more a devoted offering from a Musk Acolyte willing to die at the altar of Elon.