Elon f*cks Twitter

[Grandma Bates]

It'll be interesting to see how that works out for his business, though. A bit like the benefits of Brexit, I suspect.

Based on his past practices, Elno seems to think the whole advertising thing is not all that helpful for building the brand:

Elon Musk considers Tesla ads to counter media bias

Elon Musk says that he is considering Tesla ads, which are against the company’s current marketing policy, to counter what...

electrek.co

For years, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has famously said that he despises advertising. He said that Tesla doesn’t pay or provide discounts for celebrities to drive its cars and that the automaker doesn’t pay to advertise – though we have seen exceptions before.

Instead, Musk says that Tesla uses money that other automakers spend on advertising to improve their products:

He may have considered it, but it was not something they were doing at the time the article was written:

Musk suggested that Tesla could start advertising to avoid bias, but it is not a priority right now since the automaker has strong demand that far outpaces its production capacity.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Noodles]

Musk's new fanboys: hardcore managers. Managers who think the working world has gone soft in recent years, with all the talk of flexibility and work-life balance, say they envy Mr. Musk’s unfiltered style and share his craving for maximum effort—even if they wouldn’t act quite as forcefully as the world’s richest person.

“I think every successful CEO, including myself, is tired of all the whining,” says Michael Friedman, chief executive of the New York investment firm First Level Capital.

His fanboys are libertarian assholes. Who value profit and monitary gain above all else. Hell look at that quote. "chief executive of the New York investment firm First Level Capital." dude's entire point of existence if exploitation. He is literally the modern equivalent of a slave driver.

 

[Noodles]

Imagine your job having to include the writing of a script that would tell you the running average of Elon Musk posts on Twitter.

I would say I need a hobby, but my "current hobby" is "learning Python by making random automation tools." PS, you will need to provide your own Dev Keys

import tweepy
from datetime import datetime, timedelta, timezone

consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_token_secret = ''

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

user_name = "elonmusk"
count = 0

start_date = datetime.now(timezone.utc)
end_date = start_date - timedelta(days = 1)
for status in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline, screen_name=f'{user_name}').items():
        count +=1
        difference = start_date - status.created_at
        if difference.days >= 1:
            break

print(f"Total Tweets and Retweets in the last 24 hours: {count}")
print(f"This is an average of {count/24} per hour, {count/16} per waking hour (assuming 8 hours of sleep).")

 

[Jolene Benoir]

They're calling him God Emperor as they did Trump? Ugh, that is so gross. Manbabies looking for a daddy.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Also:

Twitter is no longer enforcing its Covid misinformation policy

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/tech/twitter-covid-misinformation-policy/index.html

Between January 2020 and September 2022, Twitter suspended more than 11,000 accounts for breaking Covid misinformation rules and removed almost 100,000 pieces of content that violated those rules, according to statistics published by Twitter. The policy received acclaim from medical professionals: In an advisory to technology platforms, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy cited Twitter’s rules as an example of what companies should do to combat misinformation.

Twitter did not appear to formally announce the rule change. Instead, some Twitter users Monday night spotted a note added to the page on Twitter’s website that outlines its Covid policy.

“Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy,” the note read.

When Swisher confronted Musk with the possibility that many people could die if they didn’t follow public health recommendations, he replied bluntly: “Everybody dies.”

 

[Beebo Brink]

Hints at mania, doesn't it?

In fact, as I think about it, the grandiose schemes, the insane spending, the wacky hours, the chaotic decision-making --- is this guy bipolar?

I can't be the first person who has wondered about that.

Bipolar as opposed to a coke head? Cause he could afford enough drugs to fly himself to the moon without a rocket.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

They're calling him God Emperor as they did Trump? Ugh, that is so gross. Manbabies looking for a daddy.

I don’t think that’s what Oliver Willis said. It appears to me that Oliver was being snarky.

 

[Free]

you will need to provide your own Dev Keys

lol

 

[Casey Pelous]

Bipolar as opposed to a coke head? Cause he could afford enough drugs to fly himself to the moon without a rocket.

Good point.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Yup, Musk is seeing things again.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Evernote link

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Predictable reaction from Mr Nehls

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Good news: Musk's war with Apple is already over, after he met Tim Cook personally at Apple HQ and they have resolved the differences during that meeting.

Musk deleted all "go to war" tweets on Twitter, instead he's now the newest tourist guide of Apple Campus:

Elon Musk Says Apple and Twitter Have ‘Resolved’ Differences After Meeting

The Twitter boss said he met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at Apple’s headquarters and that Mr. Cook said Apple never considered banning Twitter from the App Store.

www.wsj.com

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

IOW it was all Elon stirring the raw sewage.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Well it's not the first time since Epic Games went after Apple that their App Store profit share percentage fee was being challenged by other companies. Another one is Spotify, who think that it is unfair that Apple gets 30% of their profit share and uses it to finance Apple Music with it.

Anyway, how that case went for me just shows one thing: Apple is really worried about that the FTC (or another foreign authority, like in the EU) might just scrap the 30% share, and will order a big reduction.

 

[Free]

Elon and Tim made up.

Elon Musk meets Tim Cook, says Apple never considered removing Twitter app

The meeting marks a significant de-escalation days after Musk went on a tweet storm accusing Apple of threatening to pull the Twitter app from the App Store.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Grandma Bates]

Some of the people that were dismissed from Twitter are claiming that they have not received the benefits they were promised. Some appear to have lost patience and have started to push for what they were promised:

AkivaMCohen (@AkivaMCohen@mastodon.sdf.org)

Attached: 3 images So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you. I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.

mastodon.social

#scorchedEarth

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Some of the people that were dismissed from Twitter are claiming that they have not received the benefits they were promised. Some appear to have lost patience and have started to push for what they were promised:

AkivaMCohen (@AkivaMCohen@mastodon.sdf.org)

Attached: 3 images So here's the thing. You can only violate people's legal rights and your own word so far before they lawyer up and come after you. I really do hope Musk changes his mind and does the right thing - the employees deserve that. But it'll be fun as hell if he doesn't.

mastodon.social

#scorchedEarth

When you lose the bulk of HR, Payroll, and Legal, it's hard to make those arrangements.