good recap of what happened here. Elon Musk Massive Fall in Public Standing Perfectly Illustrated By Immediate Success of Twitter Rival Threads
Twitter accuses Meta of stealing trade secrets for its new Threads app (cnbc.com) Musk is already on his heals ... claiming former twitter employees wrote the Threads code ... Meta responded by saying there are no former Twitter employees on the engineering teams ... And to be honest, here, it can't be that hard. I remember reading that Trump's team developed Truth Social, a pretty convincing Twitter clone, by modifying some freeware. I don't think this is going anywhere.
Speaking only for myself the fact that Musk is a successful tech innovator and the fact that he's a nutcake when it comes to politics and is an apparent failure as the CEO of a social media company are not mutually exclusive. All three can and are true. He still deserves of kudos for his role in developing and marketing the first truly successful EV, his role in developing storage batteries and his success in developing technology for space exploration. None of those accomplishment negate the fact that is downright weird when it comes to his political views or the results of Twitter since he bought the company.
And all of that has really come forward in the last year or so. Prior to that he was just a tech guy. Then he smoked a blunt with Joe Rogan and things got weird
He’s also a frequent (heavy?) Ketamine user. That can cause permanent personality changes and killed the CEO of Zappos. Hopefully he can get straight and turn his life around….
I think the thing with OpenAI scared the shit out of him and he now has the fear of God. If you listen to any of Musk's more recent interviews, he is very focused and forward on his concerns with artificial intelligence. Specifically OpenAI, which he helped create, going closed-source and for profit. He knows what Microsoft and Google will attempt to do with it. Regardless of your feelings on Musk, you can't fault him for his desire to keep AI open source and not for profit. If we can't see the source code, we have no idea what they're putting into the AI and I think that scares the living shit out of someone like Elon Musk.
Much like the moronic right wing he embraced conspiracy theories and showed he was destructive to the facts. Pretty easy to understand.
I just joined Threads. Out of the gate I'd say it is the best rival to twitter ever. Ive tried to switch to other platforms but they have not been as simple. I bet this kills it base on a few minutes of navigating. not perfect though https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/06/how-to-use-metas-threads-app-and-whats-missing.html
Perhaps Twitter will survive as a meeting place for sex workers and their Johns. https://www.fastcompany.com/90920031/sex-workers-worry-that-threads-could-kill-their-business Sex powers a surprisingly large proportion of Twitter. One in eight posts on the platform are adult NSFW content, according to Reuters. For sex workers, Musk’s company presents a way to drum up business and build up a client base. Meta, by comparison, is often far less friendly to sex workers. It has historically banned “female presenting nipples” and nudity of all types where other platforms have been more permissive. A 2020 policy change made more explicit the inability for creators to link to sexual content on Meta platforms. Pornhub has previously said Instagram discriminates against sex workers. And just last month, the Meta-owned Instagram incorrectly banned—and later reinstated—around four dozen sex-related Instagram accounts, many of which are focused around sex education, rather than sexual content. (Meta did not immediately respond to a request to comment.)
Ya don't say? The last year, huh? Like, just as he bought Twitter, and went to bat for Trump.... What.. A. Coinky..Dinky. ....and he smoked....A BLUNT!!! Do you hear yourself???
That's pretty much been the story of the internet from day 1 ... Like 10 minutes after Al Gore invented it, someone bought tits.com and uploaded a grainy scanned Polaroid called "female presenting nipples", that took 15 minutes to download, and the rest was history.
Compiracy theories.... Lol! Yeah...the intel community didn't meet with execs from FB, Twitter...[big tech]... ...and manipulate approval/suppression of select information... #snowglobelife!
Musk sent Zuckerburg a cease and desist letter ordering him to shut down Threads ... reports are Zuck wiped his ass with the letter a few minutes later. Twitter sends Meta cease-and-desist letter over new Threads app: Sources (msn.com)
Seems weird they don't appear to own threads.com so you can view it from a browser like twitter. But threads.com appears to be a different social media platform aimed towards office teams. Is it phone app only? That kind of sucks.
Musk must have an aneurism when he saw this bill. THe firm hired to force him to buy twitter gave them a $90M legal bill. Ouch... Twitter Sues Wachtell Law Firm Over $90 Million Legal Bill From Buyout (businessinsider.com) Twitter's parent company, X Corp., sued a law firm that was hired by Twitter's former management last year during Elon Musk's contentious $44-billion buyout of the social media company. The lawsuit filed Friday accuses Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, an elite corporate law firm, of exploiting its client by charging Twitter $90 million in legal fees for "a few months" of its services and seeks to recoup the payment. "Fully aware that nobody with an economic interest in Twitter's financial well-being was minding the store, Wachtell arranged to effectively line its pockets with funds from the company cash register while the keys were being handed over to the Musk Parties," the lawsuit claimed. Wacthell, which specializes in mergers and acquisitions, was hired around last July to enforce Musk's $44-billion purchase of the company. At that time, Musk tried to walk away from the deal, raising objections to some of the data presented in Twitter's financial disclosures.
