He's so bad at running Twitter I'm starting to think it's his goal to ruin the brand. Don't know what for but surely he can't be this dumb?
He is. He’s your average internet troll that made a few lucky decisions in the past.
And don’t call me Shirley.
By "lucky decisions" do you mean "born into wealth"?
His best decision to date, yes.
What, you didn't pick "Born to emerald mine magnate" at the character creator? It really is the only logical choice, you know.
Didn't wanna spend 5 hours at the char creation screen so I just clicked "randomise".
Twitter gave regular people too much power. The rich moved to destroy that power.
Anyone paying attention would notice this Pattern, they will be trying to fuck over the fediverse as well. Unfiltered social media gives the poors too much opportunity to revolt
they will be trying to fuck over the fediverse as well.
Will be trying? Have you already forgotten Threads?
Threads happened so soon after the fediverse spun up it was like a contingency plan put into motion
Look, if Elon was trying to ruin Twitter, it would be flourishing right now.
His backers maybe wanted to destroy the brand and the service, and they chose the right guy for the job if so, but the only thing Elon does is seek praise and attention.
Not quite related to the conversation, but I think it would be funny if a CEO tried to run a business into the ground but ended up being the most successful and beloved CEO in the company's history.
"I know, if I enact a 4 day workweek, nobody will have time to get anything done"
"Okay so that didn't work... Maybe if I increase staffing, give everyone a raise, the overhead will eat into the company profits and nobody will want to invest!"
"Um... I'll have the dev team drag their heels on product release! Nobody will want to buy our product if we release a month late. Heck, maybe if we wait until the devs say it's ready we won't release anything at all! This plan is sure to work!"
Why couldn’t he be? There is ample evidence that, yes, he is this dumb and he’d had less press/more handling before. Remember, there was a different story about him. News outlets love their stories. The story was Musk = quiet, nerdy genius billionaire that was gonna save the world and Zuckerberg and Bezos were the quintessential villains in the press. Now that Zuckerberg rebranded with “Meta” and 2016 is in the distant past now, we hear much less about him and Bezos got a huge sympathy injection by getting divorced (and, I’m not even sure I’m remembering this properly, but the last thing I heard about him was his divorce and his ex wife getting half of everything).
Around this time, the pandemic hit and musk became the richest man alive, the really dumb shit he was saying and doing was more visible (and embraced by the right) and boom. All credibility was gone, all the stories from Paypal and SpaceX about his childishness and need to be corralled became common knowledge, and his story changed. The media had a new story, a new target, and it was a profitable one. Put the microscope on him and he kept fucking up. Then he kept doing douchey shit, bought twitter, and from there the dumpster fire of this really public failing became the flash point to display his stupidity.
My point is, he’s always been his dumb, given all the current evidence. It just wasn’t the story for a while. Now it is. So it seems like a new quality.
I haven't heard much about Bezos since he sent Shatner to space and then was a total dick and cut him off during his post flight interview.
His ex, on the other hand, has been taking her half of the divorce settlement and giving hundreds of millions to good causes.
Best thing that man ever did was divorce her.
Excuse me, I think today's Amazon package has arrived.
Let me guess. Paying a subscription will not mean the end of ads.
I have been wondering for a while what he would have to do to finally crash twitter, I think this may be it.
It won't be the end of bots either, it means less users overall, and conversations can be influenced with 100 bots rather than 100,000.
Small timers won't pay that, but corporation, PACs, and the wealthy won't flinch at that kind of advertising budget.
And now Musk gets paid for them, he'll never mention bots again.
No, but it will be the end of his advertising revenue. Does that count?
I'm convinced he's ruining Twitter on purpose. He's still pissed he was forced into buying it.
I like the theory that he's killing it to prevent us peons from organizing politically.
Haha, no one is gonna pay to use social media. I don't use Twitter but you would never get me to pay for absolute garbage brain rot. I'm already on lemmy for that and it's free.
They want me to pay to be advertised at.
Lol.
to be advertised at & have nazi propaganda pushed on you.
I think it’s one of his best ideas he’s ever had. I fully support this move and everyone else should as well.
What a wonderful, genius, innovative idea. Such brilliance. I think he should also keep ads on there as well.
If all 330 MAUs paid this, Twitter would ~~net~~ gross $3.6bn/month.
Crucially, they absolutely will not.
Not only that, it'll create a vicious cycle where engagement drops to the point where the people who still post on Twitter (politicians, reporters, celebrities, etc) no longer bother with it, thus leaving much less content for paying users, with the end game being that Twitter is the place where shithead tech bros and neo-Nazis talk to each other and pretty much nobody else.
The X owner said erecting a paywall around the business would ward off the bots, or automated accounts, that have become a bugbear for Musk.
Idiot manchild proudly breaks something he knows nothing about, complains when it doesn't work as expected, news at eleven.
what is this clickbait bullshit??? I've seen multiple articles yet the wording is always 'floated the idea', but from the headline you could infer it's an official announcement.
fuck modern 'journalism'
It's an interesting thought, but he misses the #1 problem with online subscriptions- sign-up friction.
If you could just push a button and instantly be charged something, an awful lot of people would do it.
But when you go from $0 to $0.01, you will lose 99% of people, because most people can't be bothered to fill out a form, put in their credit card number, etc. Even if the amount of money involved is absurdly small, it's not the price, it's the friction.
Now if he integrates the app with Apple Pay or Google Wallet that will help, a little. But only a little.
The movie about Twitter's downfall will be absolutely fascinating.
you spelled hilarious wrong
Well, if that doesn’t kill the site, I genuinely don’t know what will.
Oh boy, now I get to pay to give Elon my dumb thoughts. Sign me right the fuck up!
It’s surprising that in all these years, nobody came up with this innovation to make Twitter more profitable but in just a short time period, Musk was able to figure it out. Goes to show why he’s the richest man in the world!
Literally every single day we have idiots doing Musk’s PR work for free.
Downvote Musk spam. The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle.
Looks like Elon Musk and John Riccitiello are trying to see who can run their company into the ground the quickest.
I think it's bigger news that that fuck is meeting with that other fuck Netanyahu. What the fuck business do those two fascist scum have with each other?
Yep, this is the final nail in the coffin. Most people will just stop. Good job boosting the Mastodon community, Moron Musk.
Would be cool if he did. One last flurry of articles about Twitter folding and then nothing. That would be great.
When Elon realizes nobody wants to pay to listen to Elon, will he rollback the changes or start posting on Threads?
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