This is why this is so funny. Musk seriously thought it was some elitist title and then ended up making it so.
lol he is such a bitter little boer
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-secret-history-of-elon-musk-sam-altman-and-openai
"..Musk proposed a possible solution: He would take control of OpenAI and run it himself.
Altman and OpenAI’s other founders rejected Musk’s proposal. Musk, in turn, walked away from the company — and reneged on a massive planned donation. The fallout from that conflict, culminating in the announcement of Musk’s departure on Feb 20, 2018.
..An OpenAI announcement said Musk would continue to fund the organization, but Musk did not.."
he desperately wants to be seen as a pioneer pushing the field of AI forward
I'm sure he's extremely bitter that chatgpt is way more popular than his firetruck-hunters
congratulations to the twitter employees now holding the hottest ticket in town: twitter stock
whats the inverse of "start up" 🤔
What's funny to me is that Elon saw the respect that blue check people got and came to exactly the wrong conclusion.
He thought those people were well respected because they had a blue check mark. That the "cathedral" of Twitter had minted them into the cool kids.
In reality, the correlation between the blue check and their popularity was because they had already established themselves as an important resource worthy of respect.
The check was a result of their importance. It didn't make them important.
Elon thought that his new plaything of a company was a kingmaker, and that by giving everyone a blue check he could make everyone important. But if everyone is special then no one is special, and the cache of the check was instantly lost.
He's got the same brain problem as Trump where recognition is success unto itself, with no ability to comprehend why things were popular or appreciated in the first place
reminds of the TJ Miller Musk story:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-silicon-valley-nails-silicon-valley
“Some Valley big shots have no idea how to react to the show,” Miller told me. “They can’t decide whether to be offended or flattered. And they’re mystified by the fact that actors have a kind of celebrity that they will never have—there’s no rhyme or reason to it, but that’s the way it is, and it kills them.”
Miller met Musk at the after-party in Redwood City.
“I think he was thrown by the fact that I wasn’t being sycophantic — which I couldn’t be, because I didn’t realize who he was at the time. He said, ‘I have some advice for your show,’ and I went, ‘No thanks, we don’t need any advice,’ which threw him even more. And then, while we’re talking, some woman comes up and says ‘Can I have a picture?’ and he starts to pose — it was kinda sad, honestly — and instead she hands the camera to him and starts to pose with me.
It was, like, Sorry, dude, I know you’re a big deal — and, in his case, he actually is a big deal — but I’m the guy from ‘Yogi Bear 3-D,’ and apparently that’s who she wants a picture with.”
Yes TJ Miller is a sex predator and abuser, and that's just one more thing Elon is jealous of him for
Even Ian is dumping on Elon's changes to Twitter lol
https://www.semafor.com/article/03/24/2023/the-rights-new-viral-video-fixation
Apparently this is working. One of my friends who was permabanned from Twitter like 3 years ago for telling a nazi to kill themselves just got his account unbanned that way lol
This is lower than the stock ever got when he announced he was pulling out of the deal. Lol
https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-offers-new-equity-grants-to-staff-938ee7f8
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/musk-puts-20-billion-value-on-twitter
Twitter algos open sourced and way ahead of schedule! lol
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/twitter-source-code-leak.html
goddamn this guy has the same energy as fenton from home movies
And of course by "news" we mean "all the disinfo and misinfo amplification you could possibly want"
"hello i am a free speech absolutist"
https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-amritpal-singh-sandhu/
Yeah, that's his thing now. Weaponize community notes and then pretend it's unbiased.
He's also still really mad that Biden's Super Bowl tweet did better lol
Lol that's so obviously fake and satire. It shows Trump running ffs.
lol this rules
he shifted the focus of his destructive efforts back on the userbase.
great idea sir. very good business brain. social media has been around for 20 years, and until now no one was smart enough to paywall it.
hopefully he learns from lowtax's lessons.
especially that final one
lol reading between the lines here he's planning to store entire credit card numbers in their database. when he does and they get breached visa and mc are going to take a chunk out of him
Lmao that @Catturd2 is literally on the same level of "high public interest" account promotion as the owner of Twitter, the President of the United States, and Lebron James.
I'd wager this is part of a devops sanity check and not just a VIP list. The mix of accounts is too weird to be ideological boosting. These accounts are probably part of a test suite used to show the idiot king that the changes he wants are mind breakingly stupid.
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting
The for you tab is now people who paid to have their posts in your face and also some people you follow...
Verification does not mean any kind of verification, it just means subscriber.
People who aren’t subscribed become invisible, so their reach is going to drop precipitously.
This means anyone who posts for followers will get verified, while those who post quality content will be drowned out and probably stop posting. Congrats elon, you invented an influencer site like instagram or TikTok
lol getting huuuuuge Lowtax vibes from these replies, exactly the kind of petulant posts he'd make when not everyone was onboard with his ideas
pretty funny that he's doing the whole "$8" retorts that his followers loved again, but this time it's because he desperately wants people to know that it's only $7 now (not through app store) (when you buy a year) (Best Value!)
he's pissed that he's getting so much of a negative response to this change
It's almost stunning just how internet-poisoned he is to the point he genuinely believes that the site he overpaid billions for is truly a cornerstone for civilization, and everything will collapse if catturd doesn't get enough engagement or whatever the fuck.
I wonder what he means by civilisation failing? I'm guessing..
Black people having movies roles
Women working in medicine
Trans people existing
Haha, my god, those numbers are paltry. Well that's one big partial reason as to why he's trying to move people towards verified accounts by basically breaking the user experience for those who don't pay.
But again, that wasn't supposed to be the point of the verified accounts, the users aren't the customers, and my god, for a man so utterly obsessed with the site he just misunderstands it on such a basic level.
https://mashable.com/article/twitter-blue-half-of-subscribers-have-less-than-1000-followers
I never even thought about this. In most cases wouldn't paying for twitter blue just be boosting your tweets out to people who don't give a fuck about them? Which may be useful for content creators trying to get their name and their work out there, I guess, but in a lot of cases is just gonna be paying to have tomatoes thrown at you.
....which is kind of a perfect microcosm of Elon buying twitter.
Okay, nevermind, I understand it now.
They’re open to return but a lot won’t because Musk completely broke Twitter, there’s no support staff and the support staff keeps getting laid off, and actual engagement on Twitter was already dogshit before Musk wrecked discoverability even further.
Musk will never be a Martian. His legacy will be being a rich prick and fucking up twitter.
Whatever happened to @jack and the other execs after Elon bought out Twitter and fired everyone?
https://hindenburgresearch.com/block/
Jack Dorsey's the CEO of Block (formerly Square), Yoel Roth's teaching at UC-Berkeley now, Parag Agrawal hasn't said anything since October and is presumably just quietly enjoying his golden parachute and proceeds from the sale of Twitter stock, Vijaya Gadde's gotten subpoenaed by the House but she's also probably just sitting on her new stack of cash too
you gotta be a real weird selfish asshole to have that much money, it's strange seeing a dude throw 44 billion into the gutter for twitter, when you could like spend 50 million to replace a towns lead pipes or 500 million to shore up a state pension fund. But they never do that shit and try to build the metaverse or try to get aoc to like them on twitter
So that's 2/2 (well 3/3 with King) celebs that have told Musk to ram it up his ass. Not a good sign for Musk-rat, huh?
Every day his employees work harder to make Twitter into a giant hug box for one man and his crippling need for other peoples approval
Eve6 definitely one of the nicer parts of Twitter at the moment
Wealthy South African entrepreneur is the new Nigerian prince
https://www.wesh.com/article/florida-principal-scammed-elon-musk/43446499
Fucking lol at comparing twitter blue to Spotify or Netflix.
In Musk's broken brain, it makes sense because to him Twitter is valuable content.
@cspam it’s a f**king blue tick! 8 dollars for a blue tick!
