Elon Cleaning House

I stopped reading at “I used George Conway as an example.” Nobody gives a damn whether George Conway keeps a Twitter.

 

2.1 million followers. Somebody seems to give a damn. Twitter relies on influential users like him to keep people coming in. If you start to lose those folks, it becomes a huge problem for a platform with little else going for it.

 

Most of them are likely Dem bots who copy and paste his work and post it on sites like this as if it’s their own.

 

“The ideas have come so fast that it’s hard to keep track of it all, let alone parse a coherent strategy. But there’s a fairly straightforward theme: Twitter needs to make money and fast.

In a TED interview in April, he said it straight out: “This is not a way to make money…. Having a platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization. This is not about the economics at all.”

Crucially, though, he said this before Twitter agreed to his offer and he got a closer look at the company’s books. Once that happened, he spent the next six months trying unsuccessfully to wriggle out of the deal.

there are clear reasons why an incoming CEO might panic about the company’s balance sheet. In its last quarterly earnings report before the acquisition, Twitter posted a loss of $344 million. “

Why Elon Musk is so desperate for Twitter to make money

 

You must follow him very closely to know who all his followers are.
Or did you just make that up?

 

I follow him…

 

I follow @exiledgator and @tilly on Twitter. Not sure what I'd do without Tilly's TB lightning updates.

 

Glad Tilly keeps you up to date. I am one boring follow.

 

It’ll be interesting to see if all the major celebs like George Conway actually follow through on their threats, as we’ve heard many similar threats over time which end up going nowhere. As of an hour ago, Conway is still tweeting away.

 

You'll have to excuse the frustration I may have demonstrated over the first week of the season.

 

Wait, you mean to tell me that people have different reactions to pricing in different markets. This is new information. You should really write an economics paper on your discovery.

 

If I had it to do over I’d have eschewed trigonometry for the science of triggering.

 

Careful, you might need some basic math to prove your newfound discovery that people react to pricing differently in different markets. Let me help you out: you could call it something like "price sensitivity." Also, for a follow up paper, you could point out that it is related to competition. I think you really have something here.

 

I've long dabbled in a) collective intelligence algorithms and b) collective stupidity on this site and find this thread fascinating.

Joe espouses that Musk's assertion that an unconstrained social network results in a benefit for our country fails short given current research.

 

Man, people are so mad about a man who bought a company. Gee, I wonder why.

 

Who is mad?

 

Doing massive layoffs today, inhumanely and stupidly.

 

You just know all their collective heads exploded...
The White House deleted a tweet that credited Biden for an increase in Social Security payments after a Twitter feature gave it a fact-check label

 

The funny thing is something like that doesn’t bother me… not even a little bit. I like the idea of BS posts getting “tagged”, if the post comes from an official or person with a large enough following that it matters.

That actually sounds like a potentially good feature (a feature that predates Musk). The only flaw I can imagine, if it’s basically just algorithm based, is that you might eventually see bad actors working to “flag” good information or overcome flags on “bad” info, depending on how the algorithm works.