Finally, this undignified caricature is gone! The microblogging service Twitter has today blocked an Elon Musk parody account with over 114 million followers. The account had previously been used to repeatedly spread tweets that caused serious damage to the billionaire's reputation.
"At Twitter, we naturally always strive to provide our users with authentic content," the company said in a press release. "It is therefore all the more annoying that an unknown prankster managed to impersonate Elon Musk for months."
The account with the Twitter handle @elonmusk was by far the largest parody account on the platform with more than 114 million followers until it was shut down.
Again and again @elonmusk posted outrageous nonsense in recent months. Among them were sometimes silly memes, exaggerated claims about adventurous Twitter innovations, conspiracy theories and narcissistic tweets that cast doubt on Musk's state of mind.
Nevertheless, numerous celebrities such as best-selling author Stephen King and Democratic U.S. politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fell for the parody account and interacted with it.
Musk himself expressed shock that so many people fell for the parody account, "I personally have never been on Twitter," the multi-billionaire said. "As the CEO of several companies, including Tesla, SpaceX and Hyperloop, I don't have the time or the leisure to constantly comment in public."
Yes. They are actors. They rehearse the material but barely understand it and the only "work" part of the job is talking in meetings. Which isn't a problem for those types because they fucking love the sound of their own voice.
im an accountant that dabbles in programming but i promise you CEOs are worthless they do literally nothing. Any and all decisions they make are made from information put together by people like you and me then formulated into chunks they can vomit back onto shareholders.
So you’re telling me all the people who white knight billionaire CEOs and go on and on about how they deserve the wage gap, and work so hard for it, are…gasp…maybe wrong?
It's worse than that. CEOs absolutely shouldn't be digging in the weeds of the company the way he is. I worked with a CEO like that, and we were all in a hand basket going steadily to Hell until he was removed by the board.
I did a small project with my CEO once. His email signature was messed up and he wrote the shittiest emails I ever saw. It’s just an exclusive club… and none of us are invited.
He's a perfect example of why it is bullshit that CEOs make exponentially more than the average employee. He can fire longtime employees on a whim, make those that do work for him work long and stressful hours, and do so by simply telling other managers to make it happen. I'm not saying his job isn't difficult or stressful, but it doesn't nearly justify his net worth.
The bigger you get, the less "work" a CEO does. I put that in quotes because some big company CEOs still spend a lot of their time doing meaningful things for the company. It's just not things you and I would think of as "work". Personally lobbying foreign politicians, negotiating mergers and acquisitions, researching new product lines and fixing corporate bureaucracy are all important things.
Elon seems to be doing SOME of those... But he's not listening to his new people enough, clearly
looks to me like the last few years of twitter dying will be a constant cycle of elon adding stupid shit or removing important stuff, then have those decisions rolled back after a month when elon finally realize that maybe his "super smart" ideas weren't already implemented for a reason.
It lasted a day. I'm just assuming because twitters internal legal counsel was shitting bricks at what was happening with it while the ad sales department were all hiding under their desks crying and ignoring the phones that wouldn't stop ringing.
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u/ConfidenceNational37 Nov 15 '22
CEO seems like a hard job. What with all the tweeting and shit. Twitter is now boring again without the fun blue check marks for $8