Messages posted by Elon Musk, Kara Swisher, Piers Morgan and more tell the story in real time.
Attached by Techmeme to The Verge's "Hundreds of employees say no to being part of Elon Musk’s ‘extremely hardcore’ Twitter" posted Thursday. Skip to the tweets.
My take: I've seen public meltdowns before, but never one with $44 billion and the sanity of the world's richest man at stake.
Employees leaving most likely were the ones Elon Musk felt needed to go. Workers remaining are the very ones he wants and they will correct the ship under the tutelage of one of today’s greatest visionaries.
What judicious employee would not desire to be on such a ride with the others who steer the ship to new waters? Meanwhile, I am listening to folk who never used Twitter discuss signing up to do so.
My money is on Elon Musk. This is the CEO who sleeps with his fellow workers on the factory floors to get the job done. Talk about motivating an employee! Our very own Steve Jobs demanded no less.
Anil Dash is brilliant. The show peters out toward the end.
Jobs generally knew what he didn’t know. Musk’s query to Twitter software developers demonstrates an ego matched by ignorance.
Always has.
Besides his current Twitter fiasco, Elon’s recent comments on geopolitical issues, e.g the Taiwan/PRC situation and the Russia/Ukraine war, were also not well-received and made him look silly.
But I will always give Elon alot of credit for providing his Starlink system to Ukraine free-of-charge, which has been invaluable to its defenders as they successfully push back against the Russian invaders. But even here, Elon tried to wriggle his way out of this generous commitment by trying to get the US Govt to pick up the tab – or he might have to cut it off.
We see it here, trolls won’t pay a monthly fee. When i ran a password protected Yahoo Group we didn’t get trolls. As soon as I identified one I issued a warning then on second offense I cancelled their membership.
Twitter isn’t going to lose 92% of users due to the monthly fee. I’d like to see the number of active users. Total number of “users” may decline but, Twitter may actually increase active users enough to offset ‘troll’ losses (reducing policing costs) AND importantly, advertising revenue losses.