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I'm paraphrasing what one of my favorite podcasts said on this subject, but between all the tweeting, running a car company, running a rocket ship company, and running a social media company, it would seem being a CEO may not be as onerous of a job as we've been lead to believe.
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I'm paraphrasing what one of my favorite podcasts said on this subject, but between all the tweeting, running a car company, running a rocket ship company, and running a social media company, it would seem being a CEO may not be as onerous of a job as we've been lead to believe.
Hah! Maybe if you're good at it?
Tweeting is a hobby (that he sucks at) running a car company that he isnt good at and has only survived and thrived thanks to Government cash, a 'rocket ship' company that again is essentially Government funded and his tweeting business that he also sucks at.
In circumstances like those its easy to be brilliant. Its not much different than Sam Bankman-Fried...people thought he was a genius when really he was just an idiot with some cash who was adept at lying.
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I mean the first thing I'd currently do for ANYTHING at Twitter if something is happening with supposedly no reason is to first find out if I fired the person who's job it was to track those reasons.
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Uhhh, that’s impossible, I’ve been told on this very board that he’s a billionaire and therefore a genius business owner because billionaires know more than any of us. And now you’re telling me that… maybe… he isn’t?
Twitter Blue now on the "miss a bunch of release date" launch plan common to Musk's other ventures as it's delayed again. This time I think Musk JUST learned that Apple would take a cut of the $8.
Plus EU is threatening to ban Twitter if it doesn't follow their Digital Services Act. And I think the UK didn't like the fact that Twitter gutted the team that works to keep child sexual abuse content off it.
Also an article about Twitter's former head of trust and safety (whom Musk praised) and why he left. He said if Twitter is run by edict then it doesn't need someone who's job it is to determine policy. He warned Musk that his checkmark change would have the effect it did.
EDIT: I heard someone say that maybe Musk's plan is to decimate Twitter, but not just take it offline, but to undermine it, to subvert it for the extremists he seems to court. Seems kind of extreme but maybe.
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If people pay for Twitter via the web or something, does Apple still take a cut? I don’t see how they could. Why is Musk and his minions oblivious to like, the existence of their own website? Are they just stupid or really stupid?
I think this is just Musk weaponizing his Stan's against Apple because they stopped advertising. Typical tantrum of his. You'll notice he hasn't gone after Google who I believe has the same price policy.
Subscriptions (which I assume this Twitter thing would fall under) have fees of 30% for the first year and 15% for each year afterward. So its actually cheaper than what non-subscription apps have to pay.
I think this is just Musk weaponizing his Stan's against Apple because they stopped advertising. Typical tantrum of his. You'll notice he hasn't gone after Google who I believe has the same price policy.
What?
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Subscriptions (which I assume this Twitter thing would fall under) have fees of 30% for the first year and 15% for each year afterward. So its actually cheaper than what non-subscription apps have to pay.
Though from the article, it seems entirely possible for Musk to offer that through the website only and not pay homage to either Apple or Google.
A reference to the Eminem song Stan. The song is about an overly obsessed fan (named Stan) who writes letters to eminem and ends up driving off a bridge with his pregnant wife, because Eminem didn't write him back.
The terms means a very very overzealous and obsessed fan of a celebrity/band/cast of a tvshow or movie.
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If people pay for Twitter via the web or something, does Apple still take a cut? I don’t see how they could. Why is Musk and his minions oblivious to like, the existence of their own website? Are they just stupid or really stupid?
People want convenient access to their repulsive racist filth, if they cant just double click on the apple apps store Twitter is deader than 'Truth Social'
Also, Stans think their cult leader can do no wrong. Elon can be a complete chud and his Stans will chud with him.
Azure is as good an example of an Elon “Stan” as we have on CP, and even he’s probably not quite at the “drive yourself off a bridge” level as some people on Twitter are at.
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Oh that's good then, good thing you didn't make a fool of yourself by lying about Apple threatening to take Twitter off the app store and refusing to tell you why. Man that would have been embarrassing.