Elon f*cks Twitter

[Innula Zenovka]

Wait wait now you're telling me that Accounts Payable at a major international company isn't like some personal bank account with auto-draft and you really do need to have actual employees on staff to make the payments and balance the books? Who'da thunk it?

No, it looks as if he's hit on not paying the bills as a cost-cutting measure

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

It would have been cheaper to rent a new plane for every trip then to buy Twitter.

 

[Casey Pelous]

No, it looks as if he's hit on not paying the bills as a cost-cutting measure

It. Could. WORK!

 

[Free]

No, it looks as if he's hit on not paying the bills as a cost-cutting measure

A very short term one, but it does cut costs.

 

[Free]

Not even six weeks.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A very short term one, but it does cut costs.

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Elon Musk has offloaded another tranche of Tesla stock, worth almost $3.6bn, in a move that risks further irritating already frustrated shareholders in the electric vehicle group.

The billionaire, who took over the social media company in October, has sold four tranches of shares worth a total of almost $23bn since announcing his takeover of Twitter.

It is the third sale since declaring in April there would be “no further TSLA sales” to support the deal.

The sale comes as investors displayed frustration over Tesla’s future under the stewardship of what some consider to be a highly distracted chief executive.

Tesla’s share price is down 61 per cent since the start of the year, underperforming rival car groups such as Ford or General Motors.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

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Not surprising.... As has been previously posted, this is a giant money pit for him. He has to pay back his loans that gain more interest than Twitter can possibly make in profit. I think a lot of his recent antics are vailed cries for help. he wants SO BADLY to project that he's still in control.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

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I guarantee you this new policy would never lead to, say, MTG getting suspended for tweeting the location of the Speaker of the House during an ongoing violent attack on the Capitol for instance.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Innula Zenovka]

Rupar, who made Mediaite’s list of the Most Influential in News Media for 2022 published on Thursday, said he does not know why his account was suspended.

“I have absolutely no information at all,” he told Mediaite on Thursday night. “All it says is that my account is suspended. I haven’t been given a reason, explanation, or been looped in about any possible duration.”

O’Sullivan, a disinformation beat reporter for CNN, also made Mediaite’s list.

Later, it was reported Rupar’s account was permanently suspended.

“I didn’t post anything remotely controversial today or anytime recently, nor have I posted anything that violated the rules as I understand them,” Rupar told Mediaite when asked if he could think of any reason why his account might have been suspended.

 

[Free]

Twitter is blocking links to Mastodon

You might have trouble tweeting about Mastodon.

www.theverge.com

 

[Lexxi]

Nothing says advocate for free speech more than banning journalists. *nods*

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Nothing says advocate for free speech more than banning journalists. *nods*

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Essence Lumin]

Elon doesn't like this subreddit.

ElonJetTracker

 

[Archer]

You either have a policy or you don't, and if you have a policy, you either enforce it or you don't. He's just making it plain he's doing it out of spite.

 

[Free]

REDO THE POLL SO IT WILL WORK IN MY FAV...

 

[Khamon]

I don't understand what he's saying in those poll posts.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

He's saying "I'm the real victim here, why don't you like me?"

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Musk's] head appears to be a jumble of conspiracy theories about left-wing bias on Twitter and whatever half-formulated durge is doing the rounds on the far-right blogosphere, combined with a preening sense of vanity and deep-set social superiority. He has bought his way in to become the absolutist leader of Twitter, the key node in the world’s information, and now he presides over it as if he were Charles I. If he could brand the words “seditious libel” on someone’s cheek, as they did during Charles’s reign, he would do.