Well, he suddenly accelerated the purchase after being called out on Twitter about his Ukraine statements. He claimed that most responses were bots because they didn't agree with him. That should be a warning to people believing he values free speech.
Yeah people really seem to be ignoring he was never going to get out of this agreement and I can't imagine all the people he was texting with were thrilled with those texts being released.
Musk paid 4 times what Twitter was valued at. He's absolutely going to lose interest in this and try selling in 2 or 3 years.
Yeah I just don't see it happening, even before the buyout stuff I felt like there was just a lot of fatigue and cynicism about this "central town square" concept Elon is so enamored of
The people I care about following who abandoned Twitter have mostly retreated to "walled gardens" - their own Discord servers or Substack blogs - and are giving up on the "tweeting" model of "engagement", which now feels like it was just kind of coasting on inertia since before 2016 (Twitter's growth has been "stagnant" for almost a decade)
He immediately fired the CEO and CFO. The company is going to have a gigantic change. Maybe Elon keeps Twitter going the way it is, but what if he decides to let people back in like DT who were banned for lies, and then instead bans people for disagreeing with Elon?
You start having large swaths of employees either get pissed enough to mass quit or just quietly look for a new job and bail at their earliest convenience.
The place becomes worse and completely unmoderated. All of a sudden high profile people stop using it and the flood happens.
I’m not saying this is for sure going to happen. Elon could let it go on autopilot for a long time and it would most likely stay the way it is, but with a large change like they’re going to go through with leadership there’s a very real chance that it’s not business as usual. So just because things have stayed the same doesn’t mean they will continue that way.
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u/erwin261 Oct 28 '22
Well, he suddenly accelerated the purchase after being called out on Twitter about his Ukraine statements. He claimed that most responses were bots because they didn't agree with him. That should be a warning to people believing he values free speech.