Twitter no longer has a media relations department. The company responded to a request for comment with a poop emoji.
It’s no longer enough for Twitter to go bankrupt, Musk must be liquidated
Financially and literally please. I hear there’s an area with a lot of sunflowers that need fertilizer.
Knowing Elon, I could see it.
He’s been doing this for a while now. He fired the entire PR department and set it to respond with poop emojis and every article editor that’s reached out for a comment has had this as their reply.
He’s a man-child. And one of the most powerful and influential people on earth.
This is far from ok. ☹️
But so it goes…
He’s a man-child. And one of the most powerful and influential people on earth.
Look no further than his “zuck is a cuck” comment. I’ve encountered salty gamers with more emotional maturity than him.
Never gonna happen.
This will probably settle out of court, the lawyers will get 1/2 the settlement and the thousands of employees involved will a few hundred bucks each. If that.
Elon and Tesla are notorious for not paying their bills.
I believe its called ‘outsourcing creditors to the future’, you unbeliever.
He’s proving day after day, that no matter how much money he has, he wants nothing more than to be a terminally online shitposter.
Everyone who called him a “loser” in this thread, is 1,000% correct.
It really is hilarious how quickly Elon went from a cool guy to being the worlds biggest loser 😂😂
he stopped being a cool guy the moment we could see him. he was the enigmatic batman/edison figure for a while, when most people only knew him by the projects he funded. then he decided he wanted to be a celebrity and as soon as we figured out who he is watching him fail miserably has become a pastime for most of us.
I hope they get that cash
I hope they bend Elon over a barrel
First Twitter, then Reddit. Wonder when/ how Facebook is gonna destroy itself.
Facebook did harm to themselves with the whole metaverse thing. They’ve already pivoted away from it though.
I wonder how they can change their name back from Meta without admitting that it was an incredibly dumb decision in the first place.
Do people still not understand the name change?
They’re called Meta instead of Facebook, because Meta is not only Facebook, but also Instagram, Whatsapp, Threads and so forth.
And by all accounts it still has the same c-suite/management structure as before.
This “restructuring” was done in part to protect the whole when all the antitrust shit finally starts to roost. I’ll give their lawyers credit here, they foresaw the inevitability getting slammed with antitrust lawsuits, and now they can less painfully peel off the “offending” subsidiaries and blame them for any wrong doing instead of parent meta.
Plot twist: It’s totally still meta that’s dictating the evil, they aren’t fooling anyone, fuck their plausible deniability.
Google did the same thing when they formed their parent company, Alphabet (an equally stupid name compared to Meta).
“Yeah, we owe a lot of people a lot of money. Get in line.” - Elon, probably…
Like his buddy Donald, Elon seems to have a real problem paying his bills.
If we had a functioning government it would liquidate his assets and pay it out to those he refused to pay.
We do have a functioning government. I requires claims to be tried in court instead of just taking $500 million dollars away without any sort of due process.
We do have a functioning govt. It functions to make the rich richer and give them all the freedom in the world, including exploiting the workforce in all ways possible. But hey, at least our economy is #1! Rejoice!
Gdp is literally the only valid metric to measure a country by! Woooo!
The same CEO who didn’t understand the law when purchasing Twitter, also didn’t understand employment law when unceremoniously dumping employees?!
There’s a big surprise. Like Iago, I’m about to have a heart attack and die of “not surprise”.
I’m really starting to think that Musk deliberately destroying Twitter is not a conspiracy theory.
I mean, with Twitter and Reddit gone, only Facebook remains.
Ah, well, there are also WhatsApp, Viber, Tik-Tok, Youtube, Telegram which need similar treatment.
Of these I casually use YT and Telegram.
The former is slowly being replaced by uploading videos to the platforms they are posted on.
The latter - well, there was a time Durov promised there would be no ads ever, there are ads everywhere now. And technically it’s junk (the protocol, I mean, while the QT desktop client itself on the contrary is notoriously CPU and memory efficient for my loads of subscribed channels, groupchats etc ; it does crash sometimes, but no Matrix or XMPP client would simply survive that amount of garbage perpetually updating, so).
I use Youtube more than any other service. If you like video essays, documentaries, and other medium- and long-form content, it’s the only place on earth to get it. Cable television ditched intelligent content long ago. Nebula and Curiousity are okay, but most of the content that I couldn’t already get on Youtube has that shitty cable tv vibe.
The only downside with Youtube is it’s huge and the algorithm is iffy. It can take a long time to build up a library of subscriptions that provide high level content every day. But now that I have that, it’s basically my exclusive streaming platform. I watch 1hr of Netflix/HBO/whatever with my wife every night, and all the rest is history, cooking, science, etc. on Youtube.
I’m starting to think it’s deliberate because I can’t believe his sheer stupidity.
I used to not think it was sheer stupidity, but when he’s literally challenging his chief rival to measure up penises on a public forum, I think it is, indeed, sheer stupidity.
What’s Telegram good for? I thoguht it was more like WhatsApp with extra security? So not social media at all - just a messenger client. Does it do something else?
I thoguht it was more like WhatsApp with extra security?
About the opposite, WhatsApp is Telegram with extra security. Telegram is not secure at all. It’s not even E2E for anything but “secure chats” which its desktop client doesn’t have.
So not social media at all - just a messenger client.
In channels and group chats it has reactions similar to social media and used as such. Channels are like blogs - they consist of posts by the channel’s authors with a link to comments. Channels and group chats can be private or public. Private ones you can’t search for and can join if somebody adds you.
You don’t have any kind of news feed, yes. But in general it’s pretty close to social media in experience.
Creating a channel and posting something there is similar to your page in Facebook, just optional. You can add the link to it in your profile description so that people could go there after clicking at your avatar pic in a group chat, for example.
In fact it is being used like social media. Just no news feed and no friends (contacts are rather similar to that anyway).
EDIT: Describing it made me realize that I’m probably unfair to Durov. If from VK the most important things he’d remove were friends and news feeds, then he might actually be not such a bad person. It’s just that I want a p2p messenger\social network with user directory, like old Skype, but completely p2p. It wouldn’t become worse if it had Telegram-like channels functionality, just first things first.
Durov also went full NFTbro with his fucking username sales. I was a massive Telegram advocate until that moment. Destroyed my trust in him. Now we move to targeted ads inserted everywhere… the end of Telegram is near :(
I am generally skeptical of proprietary encryption. At least Signal is open.
