Kolek planning to go pro
Ziggy needs to try that.
He's not smart, he's not savvy, he's just a nepobaby who was propped up by other people's work, then failed on his biggest stage when he tried to run things. He's a dumb person's idea of a smart person, and it shows.
Every page load is 20±. Scroll quickly and it's more. You can easily hit 600-1000 in an hour. Punishing your mega users is the opposite of what other successful subscription/microtransaction biz models do. You usually cultivate your whales.
According to Bloomberg, his net worth today is $233 billion and he remains the richest person in the world.His net worth is up $96 billion since the day he bought Twitter. So, even if Twitter is worth zero, he is richer today than the day he took it over last October.Founder of PaypalTelsaSpacexSolar CityThe Boring CompanyNeuralink (brain implant company which just got FDA approval)Founder of OpenAIOwner of TwitterQuite the failure.
But boy do we want to focus on the first couple hits and *BELIEVE* the man has unique genius that unlocks human potential for greatness. Framed that way it is a nice story at least.
I'm not sure if you were speaking to me in your post, but I don't think he's a unique genius. I dont think Steve Jobs was a unique genius either, just a really exceptionally good marketer, but he was the original patron saint of tech founder self marketing. I think Musk's a smart guy who had vision and was ahead of the curve on a few things and was in the right circles and rooms at the right time. None of the precludes him from being a failure or deficient in other arenas (how many successful business people/doctors/lawyers failed miserably getting into restaurants or real estate?) but that also doesn't make his early work any less impressive IMO. I'm pretty middle of the road with Musk and think he's lost the plot markedly, but I have been pretty open against pushing back on the revisionist history that's actually just a lucky sperm club board president wi
You're one of the people who thinks that emerald mine was actually worth hundreds of millions of dollars don't you?The absolute stupidest continuing criticism of Musk by people who hate his political slant is that he's actually not intelligent and hasn't done anything remarkable ever. There is a huge tract of space in the "intelligent person who has done some very smart and successful business stuff but isn't perfect and make plenty of mistakes out of hubris" realm below the "MUSK IS THE SMARTEST MAN SINCE EINSTEIN" plane that his fanboys view him at. But no, his critics have to go with "he's actually incredibly stupid" and just living off his inherited extravagant wealth and nepotism and then back it up with claims from Errol Musk who is a known liar who is estranged from his family.As for Twitter, I actually think its 2 fold. I do think they are fighting the data scrapping (and Musk has long been an AI fanboy, so I would believe he's super attentive/paranoid to that space) and I also think they had cloud issues so it was just some convenient CYA.I think the long term plan for Twitter is still TBD. I think taking everything at "moment in time" in terms of valuation and whatnot is silly, cause its a privately held company thats undergoing substantial changes. When a PE firm takes over a business and rips it down to the studs to rebuild/streamline/etc, nobody is watching daily like "Oh, Conglomerate Co was worth $5B and now its only worth $1B!". Musk has made a ton of mistakes and can't keep his mouth shut so everything is highly publicized, but people have been calling "this is the end of Twitter" almost quarterly for like 5 years, even before Musk. He could still absolutely implode, but until he throws up his hands and sells Twitter for parts or just shuts the site down, TBD IMO.
According to Bloomberg, his net worth today is $233 billion and he remains the richest person in the world.His net worth is up $96 billion since the day he bought Twitter. So, even if Twitter is worth zero, he is richer today than the day he took it over last October.
ELON: (sticks dick into electric shredding machine, gets dick shredded)NORMAL PERSON: oh my god, that lunatic just paid for a machine that tore his dick offFANBOY Heisy: lol like your scrub ass could even afford such an expensive dick mutilator. cry more.
Scott Lynch is a real good one. Fantastic author. Ex-fireman.
So clearly a genius.
It appears TweetDdck soon will be available only to subscribers.
Nothing there? At this point it's hard to tell if it's the platform failing because they failed to pay their bills again, crappy business decisions, or just users deleting their content.I think Twitter went full Pinterest and locked their content behind having an account. I don't think Twitter management understands their business model. They aren't the NYT. Subscriptions won't work unless content creation is either owned by the biz, or if creators are being paid. Should have snagged the business model from Twitch or Patreon, that would have generated a ton of cash without ducking up their creator/consumer marketplace. Right now they've pissed off both sides, really impressively bad business.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-launch-twitter-like-app-threads-2023-07-04/
From the article:"Threads is going to pose a huge threat to Twitter because it's coming from the Meta and Instagram family of apps," said Drew Benvie, CEO of social media consultancy Battenhall."Instagram has 2 billion users compared to around 250 million of Twitter, so it's about ten times bigger already. If only one-in-ten Instagram users tries using Threads, it will overtake Twitter in the blink of an eye."
Or, are there enough progressives like Brew that are demanding government censorship of social media that will cause a mass move to Meta? If you believe this, did we forget that just last year, before Musk took over Twitter, the pro-censorship crowd hated, absolutely hated, Zuck? Now he is their savior!
I literally have no idea what you're talking about, but if you think Musk gives a single solitary sh*t about free speech you're out of your damn mind.