Remember: the real reason Elon Musk bought Twitter was to influence the 2024 election & stop any kind of leftist organizing on the site
Remember: the real reason Elon Musk bought Twitter was to influence the 2024 election & stop any kind of leftist organizing on the site
This comment hit the nail on the head. I feel like I played right into his hands. But what is a person to do?
remember the real reason he bought Twitter was to influence the 2024 election and stop any kind of leftist organizing on the site
The reply to that comment is much more likely to be true, though. Elon Musk is not playing 26-D chess. He's not playing 4D chess. He's not playing chess. He's not playing checkers, or even Chutes & Ladders. He's playing Candyland. He's not thinking more than 1/10th of a move ahead, and more often than not, he's thinking 2 moves behind.
His consistency in his behavior with Twitter (in terms of left/right bias) is not down to any kind of planning or forethought, it's just that he behaves in ways that conform to his worldview whenever the opportunity presents itself. It looks like planning because it's consistent and because there's no friction involved in implementing his desires (since he's the final arbiter of what happens at Twitter, and he has no one around him willing to tell him he's making bad decisions).
Elon Musk is an emotionally dysregulated rich man whose college level education did not actually stick. That's all. There's nothing more nefarious or supervillainous about it. He's just a lonely moron with money.
There may be a lot of truth to that.... but I find it hard not to counter such thoughts against his achievements with Tesla and SpaceX. The man gets shit done (and is late for a lot of other stuff too, granted). Still, there are not many other CEOs of recent times with such drive and such vision that have been able to execute on such grand schemes, and actually, for the most part, succeed.
TIL... there are still people around who think Phony Stark has ever "achieved" anything.
You’re prolly going to get shit on here if you think Tesla is “his” achievement.
I didn’t downvote but a lot of people think he bought clout with his Founder title after investing in the company.
Since, you know… he wasn’t a founder.
Edit: yes, I know the argument of his contributions being in the marketing, and and and…. that still doesn’t make him a Founder.
Has he even given a reason for why the ad is banned? He was quick to give a debrief regarding the CP posting guys reinstatement.
I don't know, I think it makes a lot more sense to assume that he's a dysfunctional fuck-up who's spending his mid-life crisis taking on a project he clearly can't handle.
I could see many billionaires doing that. But Musk is the same guy who built high speed one-way underground car tunnel with no room for emergency services instead of a fucking train. He doesn't have the capacity for such schemes.
He did that to convince the government not to build more trains which would compete with cars actually, and it worked.
Oh. Well fuck.
Remember the real reason
Elon Muskthe Saudis and Russians bought Twitter for Musk was to influence the 2024 election and stop any sort of leftist organizing or media on the site.FTFY
I think people have a very skewed understanding of how much influence Twitter has on elections. Facebook, yes. Google, sure. But Twitter? Twitter is tiny.
Twitter, as of last year, had about 238 million daily active users, or roughly 3% of the total world population.
Facebook had 3 billion. That's more than 1/3 the population of the planet.
TikTok is roughly 1 billion. Instagram, 500M. Hell, even Snapchat is higher, at around 380-400M.
Doubt many leftists use Twitter/X anymore anyway. Too much fascism and enshittification. Much better alternatives that are decentralized with the fediverse.
But that's kinda the problem, isn't it? They lost their platform. Sure, alternatives like Mastodon are cool in their own ways, but we lost a lot of reach. Twitter was utterly massive in terms of reach (and that's why there's some people on the left who still haven't left it yet). At its peak, it had something like 400M monthly users. Mastodon has like 2.5M monthly users and Mastodon has been repeatedly criticized for being difficult to discover people, so who knows how many of those users you can reach even if you manage to get something to go viral.
Yeah, that's the real issue and I didn't think of it until you pointed it out. I don't think he bought it to meddle with the election. I think he got forced into something that he'd changed his mind about. He'll still meddle, because he's an asshole, but that's a product of his broken brain rather than a predetermined plan.
Broadcast television used to be the platform with reach. Social media is fickle. Remember MySpace? Friendster? If it didn’t implode from Musk now, it would have at some point anyway. I think things will get better being decentralized myself instead of one entity controlling everything. Technology doesn’t sit still. Just because it might be hard for discovery for some right now, doesn’t mean it will always be the case.
That’s the point, I think. I heard someone else say somewhere that he’s hoping to silo Twitter to the point where it becomes this echo chamber of his right wing tech bro bullshit.
I think, us, with our integrity might have played right into the hands of fascists. I just hope that enough people wake up to the fediverse because it might be what the world needs if enough people catch on to it.
For Shitter💩, it really comes down to advertising. If they can generate revenue with it they’ll survive. If not, it’s gone. It’s still bleeding millions from what I understand.
I don’t believe this post. Musk is a dumbass but he’s on record admitting to voting for Biden. Even Elons not crazy enough to support Trump.
He's never said anything true, why believe him on Biden? He tried to help Desantis launch his campaign, he's at least as bad a Trump.
I disagree that he’s NEVER told the truth but agree with your remaining points.
One of the first things he did after taking over twitter during the mid-terms was exhort people to vote republican.
First thing he did was bend over in an embarrassing and desperate attempt to get Trump back on Twitter
He’ll support Trump should be become the R-Candidate. Maybe not explicitly but he’ll surely smear the D-Candidate with all the tools he now has. Not sure how people can still be undecided about Musk’s political leanings.
The conservative right to post: they get to post and you get to listen
And if you don't agree with Musk or the right nutters, yet continue to use the site, which pumps up users and engagements, and gives users on his side someone to interact with...
You're part of the problem. Stop going. It will not get advertisers and it will fold. Do it
Also remember, Musk served under Trump for a bit. They had differing ideas, and he eventually left, but we already knew who Trump was when he left.
I can imagine him sticking around if Trump wasn't such a cluster.
Ehh? Will he do it now that he can? Probably. Did he have any plan for anything before he bought Twitter? Probably not.
Destroying the site and pushing people to use other platforms like mastodon or threads doesn’t seem particularly smart then
One can be evil and stupid.
Destroying the site and pushing people to use other platforms like mastodon or threads doesn’t seem particularly smart then
Muskrat must not be particularly smart, then. He shows us every day.
Implying Twitter wasn't a cesspool since it was created.
Im still on the conspiracy train of him buying Twitter after meeting with Putin to weaken Ukraine support.
But Republicans are also working for Putin so they might be one and the same motivation.
I thought it was the Saudis or similar nations that helped him fund the purchase. I saw speculation that they'd want him to torpedo the site to stop dissenters from organizing. Very much a conspiracy theory but Musk has been slowly destroying the site through bad moves instead of trying to take it offline from day 1, which makes more sense if this is what they wanted: destruction of the site.
it aint even slow, he immediately laid off 80% of staff
I doubt even Musk knows why he bought it, and like Trump and the presidency, he has been doing everything in his power to get out of it by thrashing about trying to destroy it.
Y'all are giving him too much credit! Do you really think he knows what he's doing?
But if he makes it so bad that people populate other alternatives, than leftist organization will still occur and Twitter/X will be so tainted that only the ultra hardcore right wing will be oblivious. Once again, just like with bringing "S3XY" back, he wants to pull something off so badly that he trips over himself getting to the goal.
If it wasn't for his long obsession with the letter X, he would have named it Q.
Same with meddling with reddit
we are at tumblr shit head