In the next 5 years, Musk will hire Pinkertons to blow up Amtrak bridges, and the Supreme Court will say it's unconstitutional for the government to stop him.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Dumbass. Even if the alerts were costing Twitter that much they were a cost that guaranteed every single person using the NYC subway was using Twitter.

    • Juiceyb [any]
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      2 years ago

      This just describes why these idiots don't know anything about business. They are so out of touch that they don't realize how any of this works. It's easy to say "let's put this thing on the internet" because the thing being put on the internet already has some sort of human interaction in the chain. What he can't do is actually make this internet product into something that has any tangible value. We haven't learn after the crypto crash. Or Enron before that. Or the dot com bubble. Or the selling of railroad stocks. And so on.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Yes value is the problem.

        There are a lot of things that were producing "value" for people to use Twitter for.

        The most egregious mistake in my opinion is Twitter Blue though. Social media is a game, it's literally just the internet plus gameification. Twitter Blue is a freemium business model tacked onto a videogame after someone buys that game to milk it. But what's even worse about this model is that all the people not using Twitter Blue are the best up and coming content creators. He's making it impossible for good new content makers to be visible because the people paying for Twitter Blue are the worst posters on the internet (hence why they feel the need to pay to win). This model actively reduces value by filling the feed with the dogshit posts of all these p2w players when the good content is what should be visible if you want people to stick around.