Fuck Elon Musk (Part 1)

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This bit:

Musk seems to read the events as proof of government meddling. “If this isn’t a violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment, what is?” he wrote in response to one leaked email. But the email appears to show the Biden campaign, which is not a government entity, flagging tweets to Twitter for “review” under their moderation policies before the election took place. Taibbi says, “there’s no evidence — that I’ve seen — of any government involvement in the laptop story.”

Twitter is a private company, not a branch of “the government”. Musk of all people should know this because he just bought it.
This was before the 2020 Presidential election, so any “government involvement” would have been by the Trump administration.

Seriously, it is amazing how utterly, utterly clueless this guy is. Completely vanished inside his own ass by now. But I guess that’s “hardcore” for you.

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Former Twitter employee: We tried the changes Elon Musk is proposing—they didn’t work

Musk’s repeatedly delayed plans for Twitter have all been tested—and weren’t taken further.

Onebox fails because FastCompany 403 forbids BB from access. Hm, seems like a dick move.

“All these ideas you’re seeing thrown out, of subscription models and verification and paying creators, we’ve already explored at least 75% of the ideas I’ve seen coming out from Elon and Jason Calcanis,” he says. “We had extensive research on these topics. And a lot of people weren’t interested in them.”

The former employee adds that any new product rollout faced at least one key stumbling block: It materially changed the core purpose of Twitter. “They weren’t aligned with what Twitter’s goal was, which is to [ask] ‘What’s happening?’,” he says. “It’s where you find out the latest news and can connect with celebrities and athletes.”

Among the features tested under a previous regime and found not to be economical or of enough interest to users? Twitter Blue, Musk’s repeatedly delayed plan to redraw the economic viability of Twitter. “Twitter Blue did not test very well at all,” the former consumer researcher says. He recalls that only around 10% of users surveyed said they were interested in Twitter Blue’s offering. They also tested different pricing levels, finding—unsurprisingly—that as the price went up, the interest rate went down. “It was pretty clear through this test that Twitter Blue wasn’t going to be a big moneymaker for us,” the former employee says. It’s for that reason that the company didn’t put huge emphasis or resource into it. “We knew it wasn’t going to change our financials overall,” he says.

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Why post a tweet with a link to the article instead of just linking the article? I know it’s habitual, but maybe with all that’s been happening, some new habits are in order?

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it’s not enough for him to be a hectobillionaire

he wants people to think he’s “cool,” and he’s now focused on the last, worst, most awful people in the world for approval

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Needy

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OMG that’s so Elon

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 oh, Elon, Elon, Elon, no fifty-year-old man with teenage kids has ever been cool, or will ever be cool ever again

It’s so over for him

It’s more over than he can possibly imagine

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I wish I could say that I did Nazi this coming, but


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Users complain their timelines are being inundated with right-wing tweets from people they don’t follow and don’t like, offering points of view disseminating hate they oppose

looks like their editor was on vacation again

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