Elon Musk Buys X (formerly Twitter): Just Use Bluesky, Threads, or Mastodon Instead

[MagnarTheGreat]

Musk's response to unionizing: firing.

Bloomberg News - Tesla Just Terminated Dozens in Response to New Union Campaign, Complaint Alleges

He did at Twitter too to the janitors.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Business Insider - Elon Musk's mood and intensity at Twitter are 'worse' than during Tesla's existential crisis 5 years ago, staff says

"People that worked with him at Tesla then say they've never seen him this bad," one of the people said. "He is obviously stressed." Still, there is "zero talk" inside Twitter of a new CEO coming in to replace Musk, this person added. Just Wednesday, Musk said that "towards the end of this year should be good timing to find someone else to run the company," he said via a remote video link at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

New is Musk's obsession with loyalty. He's been known to "rage-fire" people he deems not working hard enough or who question his demands. At Twitter, workers are being fired at the slightest hint of political or personal dissent, even if it's based on internal research, as happened to a principal engineer last week, the newsletter Platformer reported. Since activity on internal Slack channels is limited now, workers' activity on Twitter and other social-media platforms is being used to accuse people of "misconduct" and fire them without severance, the people familiar with the situation said.

During a planning meeting several weeks ago, he suggested several ways to cut costs at Twitter that struck some in the meeting as "insane," another one of the people familiar said. Suggestions like making the entirety of Twitter a subscription product, selling usernames, or limiting services to only users in the US and Japan, because that's where Twitter is most popular, were floated.

The number of principal engineers, a title typically gained through years of experience at a company, has gone from at least 30 to just one. Overall head count is now thought to be about 2,000 and likely to decline further as offices keep closing and intermittent layoffs continue. The site has become glitchy and unreliable, with a major crash last week during which all of Twitter's core functions stopped working for several hours.

Twitter is Going Great!

 

[squeekness]

Ha! Outstanding!

 

[:eek:]

Just how many self driving Teslas are out there?

Enough to eventually turn the world into Maximum Overdrive 2: Tesla Attacks.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Musk has reportedly banned the BBC documentary on Twitter about the current Indian authoritarian leader Narendra Modi.

Elon Musk’s Twitter Bows to India Request to Censor Links to BBC’s Narendra Modi Doc – The Hollywood Reporter

Bloomberg News - Musk Shuts Two of Three Twitter India Offices, Sends Staff Home

 

[Sithborg]

Things are continuing to go well.

Guess what moron, 2FA is not exactly going to make people subscribe. However, it is going to piss off more of your userbase.

 

[Teelie]

While 2FA is necessary that is probably the dumbest way to implement it. And text authentication is not exactly secure either. Ironically may be the least secure one.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

Things are continuing to go well.

Guess what moron, 2FA is not exactly going to make people subscribe. However, it is going to piss off more of your userbase.

 

[squeekness]

Pretty much. I fail to see how Twitter can last much longer like this.

 

[Iceman]

Things are continuing to go well.

Guess what moron, 2FA is not exactly going to make people subscribe. However, it is going to piss off more of your userbase.

What a dumb thing to make exclusive.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Gizmodo - 3,400,000 Times That Tesla Had to Recall a Car

 

[squeekness]

Gizmodo - 3,400,000 Times That Tesla Had to Recall a Car

Yikes!

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

And that's only counting this year.

 

[squeekness]

Guess what I'm never going to buy......

 

[Snow Queen]

Try liking this post.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Verge - Elon Musk keeps laying off Twitter employees after saying cuts were done
Meanwhile, he is still giving aggressive deadlines to make sweeping changes, like revamping how ad targeting works in a week.

 

[Iceman]

The Verge - Elon Musk keeps laying off Twitter employees after saying cuts were done
Meanwhile, he is still giving aggressive deadlines to make sweeping changes, like revamping how ad targeting works in a week.

Must be very low job satisfaction left among those who are still there.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Daily Kos - Twitter's sale of blue checks is enabling spread of 'Kremlin-aligned disinformation'

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

 

[Iceman]

The foolishness continues.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Elon Musk’s Twitter Goes Dark on Government Data Grabs – Rolling Stonehttps://www.rollingstone.com/politi...nsparency-reports-government-data-1234684941/
“That **** went out the window right after Elon came in,” one former staffer says of Twitter’s previously routine transparency reports

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Verge - Twitter shut off its internal Slack, and now ‘everyone is barely working’
As in so many other things, Twitter hasn’t paid its Slack bill.

 

[Iceman]

The Verge - Twitter shut off its internal Slack, and now ‘everyone is barely working’
As in so many other things, Twitter hasn’t paid its Slack bill.

Surely they want to pay for things they need to work. Musk's strategy is weird and Twitter's financial reputation (as well as general reputation) - which will affect the rate at which it can borrow , is being dragged further through the mud.