Elon Musk

posted by Laley23

I think so, yes. I’m not saying he isn’t a brilliant business man. But he has had some flops and needed the government a few times, so I can see how he would buy Twitter for $50M and then run it into the ground.

I don't think he RAN Paypal....I want to say he was an early angel investor.

There will be no govt bailout or subsidy with Twitter.  It's not a monopoly, and with the internet one stumble can be the end.

My guess: In 3-4 years, Musk sells Twitter for 30-50% of what he bought it for.

Appears he may have finally killed Twitter, unless he rolls back the newest limits; soon.

posted by Laley23

Appears he may have finally killed Twitter, unless he rolls back the newest limits; soon.

What he do?

I just saw, only 600 tweets per day as an unverified user. 6000 per day as a verified user. 

They're definitely going to have to figure something better out soon.

Yeah, if you pay you can see 6,000 a day (honestly not a lot if you are paying, I assume you scroll thru more than that quickly). And 600 viewed tweets for unpaid. Which, is like 30 minutes during an active sporting event or breaking news. Forcing people to pay is gonna drive them away. I don’t see how he survives this if he doesn’t roll back.

Well nothing different for me lol

I’m not on Twitter all day. But days like yesterday and today, with Free Agency starting, I would easily see 609 tweets in an hour. I follow enough people I’m getting 50 new ones every few minutes if I refresh

posted by Laley23

I’m not on Twitter all day. But days like yesterday and today, with Free Agency starting, I would easily see 609 tweets in an hour. I follow enough people I’m getting 50 new ones every few minutes if I refresh

I don’t even check it daily anymore. If something big is happening I’ll look on Twitter and during basketball season I can find a lot of regional scores of high school stuff.

posted by Laley23

I’m not on Twitter all day. But days like yesterday and today, with Free Agency starting, I would easily see 609 tweets in an hour. I follow enough people I’m getting 50 new ones every few minutes if I refresh

I don't know, maybe that's their market but I can't imagine most people being all that interested in spending an hour reading 600+ tweets every day.

Never underestimate the ability of people to pay/overpay for something they "HAVE" to have

posted by gut

I don't know, maybe that's their market but I can't imagine most people being all that interested in spending an hour reading 600+ tweets every day.

Never underestimate the ability of people to pay/overpay for something they "HAVE" to have

No one reads that many. But when Cavs signed Niang for instance, I probably had 75 tweets in a 5 min span telling me, from all the accounts and journalists I follow. 1/7 of my allotted amount for a single bit of info. 

Then if you search for something, your wasting 50 (I think that’s now many load at once) on that 1 search. Click on a tweet to reply and all those replies count as well. It’s not nearly as many as you’d believe. 

posted by Laley23

No one reads that many. But when Cavs signed Niang for instance, I probably had 75 tweets in a 5 min span telling me, from all the accounts and journalists I follow. 1/7 of my allotted amount for a single bit of info. 

Then if you search for something, your wasting 50 (I think that’s now many load at once) on that 1 search. Click on a tweet to reply and all those replies count as well. It’s not nearly as many as you’d believe. 

I’d let you borrow 500 a day if Elon Ok’s it

posted by Laley23

Yeah, if you pay you can see 6,000 a day (honestly not a lot if you are paying, I assume you scroll thru more than that quickly). And 600 viewed tweets for unpaid. Which, is like 30 minutes during an active sporting event or breaking news. Forcing people to pay is gonna drive them away. I don’t see how he survives this if he doesn’t roll back.

Well, I'll bet he survives it. The site might not, but when you drops $45B in an attempt to get dumb people to think you're cool, there's gonna be a body or two on the ground when it's all said and done.

posted by Heretic

Well, I'll bet he survives it. The site might not, but when you drops $45B in an attempt to get dumb people to think you're cool, there's gonna be a body or two on the ground when it's all said and done.

Well yes. By he I meant Twitter CEO. 

It's already upped traffic/ad revenue by people going to see what's happening.

He's done similar things before. I bet he eventually puts it back to the way it was when he thinks of something else to yank chains next week.

LOL, first he challenges Zuck to a cage match, and now he wants to compare dick lengths.

Elon clearly off his meds.  I mean, there may be a ton of reasons to not like Zuckerberg, but the poster child for government welfare should never begrudge anyone their success.

Maybe it's just me, but if you're going to shit tweet like Trump and Musk love to do, it should at least be funny or witty.

posted by gut

LOL, first he challenges Zuck to a cage match, and now he wants to compare dick lengths.

Elon clearly off his meds.  I mean, there may be a ton of reasons to not like Zuckerberg, but the poster child for government welfare should never begrudge anyone their success.

Maybe it's just me, but if you're going to shit tweet like Trump and Musk love to do, it should at least be funny or witty.

You'd hope, but I get the idea Musk thinks he's funny as hell and doing stuff like blacking out the W in Twitter so it looks like "Titter" is the pinnacle of wit. And he's probably fired everyone who disagrees with that self-assessment, so we're stuck with shit that reads like Trump became a bit more up-to-date with modern insults such as "Zuck the cuck".

Well Ron Perlman left twitter again, so there's that.