Twitler

[claidheamhmor]

Anyone who had any illusions that Elon Musk could competently run a business must surely have lost them by now.

After a court forces him to follow through with his offer, Musk buys Twitter at a vastly inflated price, taking out billions in expensive loans to do so (because Musk's fortune is in stock, not in cash).

He fires half the staff without

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[polymale]

My opinion here is that as good as Elon is with technical stuff, he's really bad as social stuff... not a surprise considering he's "on the spectrum". He's lost a lot of social capital with Twitter, capital he's going to need at some point in the future with Tesla/SpaceX/NeuraLink. The whole thing is a really stupid distraction away from the important things he was doing, electrifying transport and getting us to the Moon/Mars, and I'm sure it's costing him employees he needs/will need

[claidheamhmor]

I see things are just getting worse and worse for him. And Tesla stock is falling like a rock. And Twitter is starting to experience little issues - problems posting and replying, flaky metrics, etc.

What I mean with Apple was that they could remove Twitter from the App Store (and potentially even remove it from devices). There would be legal implications, but it could certainly be a problem for Musk.

The more I see of Must, the more unsavoury it gets - his liaisons, his children scattered here and there, and some of the weird stuff he does. I had quite a positive view of him a couple of years ago.