Can’t wait
3 Likes
Firing people may not be quite as easy as Musk thought:
I wonder how many other staff in Europe/the UK have also taken similar action?
1 Like
This level of employment law is really only available to the extremely well paid. Most people would be consigned to maybe hiring a lawyer for an employment court which would have a six month wait minimum in the U.K., or more likely just doing nothing and accepting their lot, unless they were in a union.
Maybe other Irish employees can also take this as precedent though
2 Likes
The damage being done to the lives of real people is awful.
3 Likes
I’ve just being getting caught up on the latest stuff.
Has he been living under a rock? You’d think a CEO of his calibre would be aware of the ongoing App Store monopoly discourse, but I guess he’s been living on Mars and missed it.
Is the coalition for app fairness really going to want him or Twitter anywhere near their movement, let alone be a figurehead for it? At this point, it’d be a detriment to them, and would do irreparable damage to their credibility and intent, which was already questionable to begin with.
And maybe it’s just me, but in a fair and just society which affords freedoms such as free speech also affords companies and people the freedom to choose who they wish to associate with, or in this case advertise with. Comes off a little hypocritical to me.
That’s because you believe he stands for free speech. He only stands for his ability to do whatever he wants and the only “free speech” is the voices of those who he agrees with.
7 Likes
He’s playing to the #gowokegobroke crowd as he always was.
2 Likes
Just to state the glaringly obvious, that tweet reply from Tim Cook isn’t real.
8 Likes
Possibly not. Theory I’ve heard, and which sounds reasonable, is that Apple have been making noises about removing the Twitter app from their platform, because of the trust issues and lack of safety on the platform since Musk took over (essentially same reasons why advertisers have stopped advertising).
As a result, Musk is deliberately picking at fight with Apple so that when Twitter does get dropped, he can get on his high horse on a ‘mean Apple have unfairly dropped my app in retaliation for my reasonable questioning’ angle instead of having to deal with the reality that he has facilitated a platform for bullies and fascists and misinformation.
5 Likes
He’s pinned a tweet where he says ‘This is a battle for the future of civilization.’ right at the top of his feed.
Just reading that timeline is a toxic hellhole… it’s gone downhill so fast. It used to be about space ships interspersed with the occasional wierd rant. Now it’s 100% rant.
3 Likes
Did I read somewhere that as a result Twitter now has more daily activity or new users than it ever has before?
He’s gaining massive amounts of followers and may well become the most followed person on Twitter. Shitposting really pays, huh? But more users doesn’t mean more revenue, especially if his toxicity scares away advertisers
1 Like
I don’t think the article was related to him gaining more followers. It was more that the platforms usage and userbase was growing.
I was just curious if I’d read it correctly and was going to look into it more.
I think if he’s gaining more followers, it must, at least partly, be due to an influx of new users. Anyone on Twitter who wanted to know what’s on in Elonland would have followed him already.
That said, I’d put money on the new users being, in large part, the type of people Elon likes to associate with - cryptobros, homophobes, racists, election deniers
1 Like
Don’t forget the unbanned accounts too!
I’ll see if I can find the article later and if there are any facts in there.
1 Like
@Ordog - https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594865247323660290
Also worth looking at this reply though - it looks to just be natural growth that’s also slowing - hard to tell given the time frame provided though.
3 Likes
Bots.
You roll back the platform’s safety policies, fire more or less all the specialist staff working in the area… all the bad actors are rapidly signing up new bot accounts ready to set them loose and make Twitter even more of a twisted hellsite than it has ever been.
Apparently (I’ve not been able to look too closely myself as it’s an area of Twitter I never paid much attention to anyway) this can be seen at the moment in terms of what’s happening around China, where the news of the Covid protests is being drowned out by large amounts of other inane stuff being generated by probable bot accounts as a means to disrupt and drown out real communcation.
tl;dr, Captain of the Titanic says all is well, “We’ve never had so many people on the decks before!”
5 Likes
2 Likes
Proves the point about the verified tick.