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One can't fault the advertisers for jumping on the press bandwagon but, realistically, they're already planning where to focus dollars they used to spend on Twitter campaigns.
 
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"They paved over the 'loop and put up a parking lot!"
 
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Meanwhile, over here...

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Tesla Begins Clearing Trees At Giga Berlin For Major Expansion

A Tesla Germany spokesman confirmed the automaker is working on an application to increase the storage and logistics capacity at its site in Grünheide.
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Musk's "Gigafactory" kinda reminds me of the "Cargolifter AG", which promised to develop a heavy lift airship in the late 1990s, but ultimately fell flat. The only thing they accomplished was the construction of the world's largest freestanding steel-dome hangar (also in Brandenburg, near Berlin), which was later converted into a tropical resort.

I suppose Musk will ultimately collide with Germany's labour laws, which will sink him just like they did Walmart many years ago, when they tried and failed to infect the German market. I suppose his "Gigafactory" could become the world's largest furniture store.
 
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www.thetimes.co.uk

Inside Elon Musk’s toxic Twitter takeover: a chaotic mix of mass layoffs and bizarre edicts

With millions being lost every day was the $44 billion takeover an experiment too far for the madcap inventor? Danny Forston reveals what has been going on behind the scenes
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Jo Mackie, head of employment at Lawrence Stephens, the City law firm, said the sackings broke British employment law, which requires consultation with workers at least 30 days before redundancies of 20 or more people. “What he has done is absolutely illegal,” Mackie said. She said British Twitter employees could take the company to an employment tribunal and be in line for a year’s worth of salary. As of January last year, Twitter employed 280 people in Britain.
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Musk’s ham-fisted approach might also have broken employment laws in Ireland, where it employs 500 people in Dublin, as well as in its home state of California.

Richard Grogan, a Dublin solicitor specialising in employment law, said: “In Ireland we have legislation relating to collective redundancy. You have to notify the minister, you then go through a consultation process with staff or their union — it is not a question of here is a done deal,” he said. “Losing your job over email, I’ve never heard of it.”

Lisa Bloom, an American employment lawyer, promised a class-action lawsuit because Twitter failed to comply with California rules that require a 60-day notice period. “Mr Musk, the storm is coming,” she tweeted.
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If only employee lawsuits were his biggest problem.
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