Pretty cool how he took one of the most widespread platforms for distributing information yet built and completely trashed it in a few years of petty manchild tantrums.
All he had to do was not change anything to keep twitter as a massively powerful tool, and yet.
Getting people to realize that twitter is bad is possibly the only actual accomplishment that can be attributed to Musk himself
There was an interview a few years ago where Julia Roberts was asked why she didn't have Twitter. She didn't know what it was and after it was explained to her, she said "Why would I want that? That's like...shouting into the wind."
I wish everyone had Julia Roberts' attitude.
's carefully-crafted reputation was unassailable until he started tweeting too much.Turns out Twitter itself couldn't withstand the meddling of a magically powerful tool
The sadder part is that this completely trashed platform still hasn't really been replaced yet.
9 times out of 10, whenever something's going on, the link will be to a Twitter post instead of Bluesky or whatever.
completely trashed it in a few years
I thought it had been months, but it's been very close to two years now. He took over Oct 27th, 2022.
Wow real hard hitting reporting, "billionaire loves money, is voting for the guy giving him free money". I wish I had a $200 haircut and a job writing these headlines.
they are selected to frame the problem in terms of individual greed because any indictment of the system will hurt their careers
Reminds me of this guy who told me to put all my faith in billionaires because they can’t be bought, and here’s the richest man on earth admitting he got bought.
He seems especially deluded about how much people like him lately.
