In a new poll (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097), Elon Musk is asking Twitter if he should step down. He says he will abide by the will of the audience, and as things stand, he may have to abide by a "yes."
I wonder if he was relying on the vastness of his fan-base too much, or if he has done what he thought he needed as the head of Twitter and is now ready to own the head in stead? Being the "power behind the throne" is a more "peaceful" existence than having your butt cheeks firmly glued to it, after all.
Personally, I see the whole shebang as more of an exercise in mob rule than democracy, but I cannot precisely explain why, so... Call it a feeling and take if for what it's worth, which, being my feeling, is rather on the cheap side.
Does any-one have any thoughts as to why he's doing it the way he's doing it, whether indeed he will step down if the vote goes that way and whether he plans/wants it to?
He's just going to close the accounts of all the people who say yes.
:lol: Oh, PLEASE, yes!
I mean, it would likely kill the platform, but that would be a troll for the ages!
Watch this space :popcorn:
Quote from: Tank on December 19, 2022, 10:38:49 AMWatch this space :popcorn:
Yeah... AND, give it a few years for them Starlink satellites to start failing in their hundreds, then
space will indeed be one to watch! ;)
Can you imagine that some people call
me a Musk-hater? I mean, yeah, I think he's a borderline-scammer,
but he keeps me entertained with his shenanigans, so far from hate - I
enjoy what he does.
Fuck him.
Fuck Twitter.
Hopefully, a bag of flying donkey cocks infests his throat. And that already oxygen starved brain wilters into nothingness.
The vote went 57% leave so he's looking for a replacement.
No The Purge though... :felix:
...Yet. ;D
Can Asmo transfer his wrath against Luxembourg to Musk?
He really ought to, oughtn't He? :smilenod:
he hasnt left.
hes changing thr poll rules so that only paid subscibers can vote
hasnt said anything about leaving yet
Yeah, I'll give it another week before assuming that he thought the vote would go differently. The arrows sort-of start pointing in that direction though.
The change that's being proposed, too. It's... Yeah, I don't know.
I do see how paying subscribers (note how I don't say "customers" - for all intents and purposes, they are not.) are invested in the platform in a different way to the rest, but, and this speaks directly to what I put in the parenthesis, if you alienate your product, you won't keep those who pay for it, either.
Cold though it may be, calling people "product," that's precisely what we are to social media companies. Their customers are businesses buying ads. They sell our eyeballs on these ads. If a pair of "freeloading" eyeballs gets no say in how the day-to-day interactions on the platform work... They will leave. That said though, if only the decision making with regards to the company leadership will be delegated to paying subscribers, then maybe there won't be an issue?
I couldn't give an odd sock for Twitter, it means nothing to me.
I've heard a journalist say it's important, what happens there gets filtered through them to everyone.
I'd really rather not know what's happening there, what happens on Twitter should stay on Twitter.
The first rule of Twitter should be you don't talk about Twitter... outside of Twitter.
If people want to know what's happening on Twitter they should have to pay and be bound by non-disclosure. >:(
Ah, but as misfortune - and I say this with not a shred of sarcasm - would have it, Twatters is where the public discourse on a number of matters seems to take place.
Personally, I think people who define their opinion on complex matters in 280 characters or less lack nuance in their approach and are doomed to failure in the long run for ignoring potentially-insignificant variables at the time, which also have the potential to grow in significance in the future. It's either black or white. The shades of gray in which The Asmos thrive cannot conform to the format as sometimes, complex thoughts require complex explanations.
Ironically though, it seems like the "only" thing that is not binary over there is a person's sex.
I hope he steps down from Twitter, off of the world stage, and into a prison cell, with Trump as his cell mate. That's what I want from Santa.
In a new tweet (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1605372724800393216?cxt=HHwWgMCgnZr_tscsAAAA), Musk says that he will indeed be stepping down as CEO. Unless of course the process of finding some poor fool to take over takes an indefinite length of time.
he ll stay until his bone saw buddies tell him its time to go
After counting the mail-in ballots more than 90% of the voters wants him to stay ;)
:rofl:
Quote from: Tom62 on December 21, 2022, 05:49:21 PMAfter counting the mail-in ballots more than 90% of the voters wants him to stay ;)
Good point! It takes
weeks to get one of them slow-ass ships from Asia, through Europe and all the way to America. Many people on the way. Many voters. Many uh...
ballots, what deserve to be counted.
By all accounts he has become the first person to lose $200 billion!
Yeah, but that's mostly because Tesla was disgustingly overvalued for a long time and a few of them runaway hype-pidgeons are now coming home to roost. It still is overvalued though, as I see it. Manufacturers like Audi, Toyota or Ford should be worth up to orders of magnitude more than Tesla based on their assets, output and capability.
So I'm not sure I'd call it "losing 200bn" - he never had it. His assets were valued thusly, but as I pointed out in previous discussions, if you have a ten million dollar house, you do not have ten million dollars. You have a house. If it burns down, you don't lose ten million dollars either - you lose a house.
Still, you have to give Musk one thing; the Hype King is indeed the king of hype.
Elon Musk can go to Mars and stay there for all I care.
id rather he go halfway to mars.
Oh, he's already halfway there, according to him.
im talking about the airlock.
Quote from: billy rubin on May 21, 2023, 01:29:18 AMim talking about the airlock.
Sounds like a foolproof plan.
If Elon Musk steps down from his high chair, that will be amazing.
It'll be interesting to see how long he'll be able to keep his hands off the wheel. :popcorn:
As far as I can see, he has full control of Twitter already.
He's appointed a new CEO and has nominally stepped back from the running of Twitter. He did the same at Tesla and SpaceX. Watch out Zukerberg and Basos he's after you!
...And the new CEO is, if rumours are to be believed, from the exact same club as the old CEO.
You know all those people who practically hero-worshipped Musk as some avatar of Free Speech and Conservative Values..? Yeah... There is once again salt to be mined on the Internet. :smilenod:
"X, the fucking everything app." It won't spy on you because pinky promise. Except of course it will, and rather than doing everything, it will do everything it does poorly. That is The Asmo's prediction.
Money talks.
Actually, in this case, it's not the money as such doing all the talking - it's one [paper-]billionnaire with expensive hobbies.