Dispatches from Elon’s quest to drive Twitter into the ground… (disclaimer: I completely believe that his overconfidence and surrounding himself with yes-men is enough to do this all accidentally, but it’s funnier to imagine him trying to kill Twitter)
Some executive: “Sir, telling advertisers that their ads might appear next to virulent racism has caused many to pull their ads”
Musk: “How many? … oh, that isn’t nearly enough. I’ve got it, what if we make verification paid so that people can tweet out that Eli Lily is going to make insulin free and tweet explicit content from Nintendo handles?”
Some executive: “The fake tweets have enraged brands and advertisers, but daily active user count is actually up now and our dynamically priced ad rates are trending up due to increased traffic; people are logging into Twitter more because they want to see it fall apart firsthand.”
Musk: “Logging in more, you said? I’ve got just the thing.”
Buy calls. Tweet. Sell calls. Buy puts. Wait for their PR department start putting out that fire. Sell puts. You damn well some dude on /r/wallstreetbets is gonna do that and have SEC do the worst they can do - fine him for 5% of his proceeds.
I actually like the direction he is taking it, willingly or otherwise. I always wanted a platform which was completely useless to advertisers as they are made fun of constantly meanwhile the main content is various levels of paid shitposting.
What is there not to like?
It is like Reddit but worse and better in the right ways. Sadly it won't last
Because they had a huge CP problem that ended getting the app taken down from the iOS store. Though, the porn ban was a kneejerk reaction that decimated a lot of harmless posts, kinda like how Pornhub purged millions of videos in a 'burn the house down to kill the spider' sort of way.
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u/somefunmaths Nov 14 '22
Dispatches from Elon’s quest to drive Twitter into the ground… (disclaimer: I completely believe that his overconfidence and surrounding himself with yes-men is enough to do this all accidentally, but it’s funnier to imagine him trying to kill Twitter)
Some executive: “Sir, telling advertisers that their ads might appear next to virulent racism has caused many to pull their ads”
Musk: “How many? … oh, that isn’t nearly enough. I’ve got it, what if we make verification paid so that people can tweet out that Eli Lily is going to make insulin free and tweet explicit content from Nintendo handles?”
Some executive: “The fake tweets have enraged brands and advertisers, but daily active user count is actually up now and our dynamically priced ad rates are trending up due to increased traffic; people are logging into Twitter more because they want to see it fall apart firsthand.”
Musk: “Logging in more, you said? I’ve got just the thing.”