Elon's Antics

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Ouch.



I'm sure that extra $224* a month will balance the books.


*$24 of which is apparently coming out of his own pocket, although we all know it's just a profile box tick.
 
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Famine
Ouch.



I'm sure that extra $224* a month will balance the books.


*$24 of which is apparently coming out of his own pocket, although we all know it's just a profile box tick.
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Has to keep up with the increase in streaming prices for the office!
 
Famine
Ouch.



I'm sure that extra $224* a month will balance the books.


*$24 of which is apparently coming out of his own pocket, although we all know it's just a profile box tick.
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Based on these numbers, this is enough gross income to employ about a dozen base/entry level engineers in SF.
 
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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Not scientific but I wonder how has GTPers use of Twitter changed in recent weeks (if at all)?

I know I've used it less, but admit it could only be a coincidence in timing with the Doge's takeover.
 
As long as they don't charge me to use the platform I don't see what I have to lose by using it while it's still around.
 
HenrySwanson
Not scientific but I wonder how has GTPers use of Twitter changed in recent weeks (if at all)?

I know I've used it less, but admit it could only be a coincidence in timing with the Doge's takeover.
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I quit using it after Musk took it over. I don't want to contribute to revenue streams that benefit Musk if I can help it, no matter how insignificant. I used to use Twitter all the time too.
 
Sadly not true; weird to do that when there's so much valid ammunition.

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Of course you can do pretty much anything you want on the internet these days:

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(parody)
 
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HenrySwanson
Not scientific but I wonder how has GTPers use of Twitter changed in recent weeks (if at all)?

I know I've used it less, but admit it could only be a coincidence in timing with the Doge's takeover.
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Made a Mastodon account, shortly after Musk's takeover as a fallback but I'm still using Twitter roughly the same amount as before. I enjoy BS'ing with people about sport (which Mastodon is really lacking) and just generally posting nonsense. Not too different from what I do on GTP, tbh.
 
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5-D chess... the bongcloud opening:
www.businessinsider.com

Twitter Blue users paying to stay verified hit by #BlockTheBlue action

Some Twitter users are taking a dim view of those opting to pay $8 to keep their blue checkmarks after Elon Musk decided to start charging for them.
www.businessinsider.com
web.archive.org

Twitter Users With a Million Followers Are Getting 'Paid' Blue Checks, Like It or Not

“Wait I’m crying they’re giving them for punishment now,” Chrissy Teigen tweeted. The change appears to include doling subscription badges out to popular people who are dead
web.archive.org web.archive.org
 
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I started a Mastodon account back in 2017 but never really used it. Now it's the only social media I use.
 
A Financial Times article on Jack Dorsey's "mea culpa" for supporting Musk and his funding of possible alternative platforms which contains a brief instance of NSFW language in one of the quotes. It's paywalled but I've quoted the article in full below.

https://www.ft.com/content/8e2b62d7-aa30-4b83-8223-e078d8f41fc9

FT
Jack Dorsey: Twitter’s co-founder makes his move against Musk

The tech entrepreneur has turned his attention to rival social media platforms Bluesky and Nostr

Hannah Murphy, 6 May 2023

If there was a moment when Jack Dorsey first morphed from Jesus to Judas in the minds of many former Twitter staffers, it was when he described Elon Musk as the “singular solution” to take over the social media platform he co-founded. “I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness,” Dorsey posted last April on the site.

These gushing statements were the culmination of a years-long ‘bromance’ between the two Silicon Valley billionaires, one that dramatically altered the future of Twitter. Dorsey, according to court documents and people familiar with the matter, was instrumental in accommodating the $44bn sale of the platform to Musk, who has since said goodbye to 90 per cent of its workforce and dramatically relaxed its moderation policies.

Now, that alliance appears to have come to an end.

This week, Dorsey spoke out publicly against Musk, saying he did not believe the Tesla chief “acted right” in his handling of Twitter. “It all went south,” wrote the 46-year-old, who rolled his stake over when Musk took Twitter private, making him one of its biggest shareholders. “But it happened and all we can do now is build something to avoid that ever happening again.”

Indeed, Dorsey — whose guru-like persona previously won him devotees inside Twitter — has been leading the charge to create alternatives to it. Over the past week, Twitter lookalike Bluesky, which Dorsey seed funded in 2019 while still at the helm of Twitter, made headlines as it attracted journalists in droves alongside the occasional politician and celebrity. He remains on its board and made his comments about Musk on the platform.

On Thursday, Dorsey donated $5mn to “advancing the new and growing . . . ecosystem” of Nostr, another decentralised social media project, after giving 14 bitcoin, worth more than $200,000, to its founder in December.

Those close to Dorsey say that Nostr has been his main focus lately. Recognisable by his long grizzly beard and penchant for wellness fads, Dorsey attended a Nostr conference in March at a yoga retreat in Costa Rica, speaking at the end to give the initiative his blessing. “This is his mea culpa — this is him taking his responsibility for what Twitter ended up being,” said Greg Kidd, one of Twitter’s early investors, who also attended.

Dorsey came to regret Twitter’s reliance on advertisers and investors, and how it compelled the platform to try to juice engagement to meet quarterly results, Kidd said. “Second time around, he may not repeat those mistakes . . . Jack is getting back to his basic work.”

Born in St Louis, Missouri, Dorsey, who is also a licensed massage therapist, helped set up Twitter in 2006. He had two stints as chief executive, most recently from 2015 until the end of 2021. Those close to him say he has always been motivated by a desire to democratise and decentralise services. In the case of Twitter, he sought to democratise media. In recent years, he has also become obsessed with bitcoin and decentralised payments.

This approach spilled into how Dorsey ran Twitter. Every time he had to make a decision, he said he saw it as a “failure” of the business, preferring to allow staffers to thrash out ideas themselves. But it was this lack of steady hand and resulting indecision, his critics argue, that left Twitter plagued by slow innovation, briefly challenged by activist investor Elliott Management and ultimately vulnerable to Musk. “He believes, for better or for worse, in the wisdom of the hive mind,” said Kidd.

In the meantime, the man who made his millions through the site’s IPO also turned on Wall Street itself, arguing that Twitter should never have been a company answering to profit-hungry shareholders, but a “protocol” owned by no single company or state.

By the time he stepped down, staffers and even board members felt Dorsey had become an “absentee landlord” who had already checked out of caring about the platform. But his biggest betrayal, according to many former employees, was that he paved the way for Musk’s takeover, and publicly criticised the board as inadequate without taking responsibility for his own role.

Per his defenders, it is only natural that Dorsey, a free speech believer, is now focused on developing the decentralised social media models of Bluesky and Nostr, whereby the goal is to build an interoperable system where no central authority is in control.

“A lot of people think the amount he pushed for Elon to take over . . . messed up his legitimacy,” said Evan Henshaw-Plath, an acquaintance and former colleague of Dorsey, adding that he thought this criticism was unfair. Now, however, Henshaw-Plath says, “I think there is a bit of a desire to be active in funding these alternatives as a **** you to both Wall Street and Elon Musk.”

For Twitter 1.0 staffers, who felt acutely betrayed by Dorsey, the recent Musk criticism was a long time coming. Some expect his former acolytes to return with the passing of time. “I think the 1.0 have a short memory and will move on quickly as soon as they land new jobs,” one former senior Twitter staffer said. “And will go back to relishing him.”

But for Dorsey to salvage his wider reputation as a social media entrepreneur, much rests on whether his new initiatives gain traction, or are just another fad. One current Twitter staffer said: “Time will tell if this is another of Jack’s big ideas that never gets properly shipped before he moves on to the next shiny thing.”

hannah.murphy@ft.com
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Liquid
German media is reporting that Musk wants to step down as Twitter CEO. He's apparently found a successor but they haven't been named.
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He's going to have a woman as CEO and he will remain to become, in his words "being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software, & sysops".

Probably would want him to be CEO and let someone else be in charge of the technical stuff.
 

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