I imagine the financiers who helped Musk bankroll this by loaning him tens of billions of dollars are feeling sick to their stomachs every single day.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:56 (one year ago) link
the lenders will be bloodied but probably fine. it's musk's buddies who bought equity that are probably nervously tugging their collars.
― 龜, Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
From: Elon Musk [email removed]
Date: Nov 9, 2022 [time stamp removed]
To: Team
Sorry that this is my first email to the whole company but there is no way to sugarcoat the message.
Frankly, the economic picture ahead is dire especially for a company like ours that is so dependent on advertising in a challenging economic climate. Moreover, 70% of our advertising is brand, rather than specific performance, which makes us doubly vulnerable!
That is why the priority over the past ten days has been to develop and launch Twitter Blue Verified subscriptions (huge props to the team!).
Without significant subscription revenue, there is a good chance Twitter will not survive the upcoming economic downturn. We need roughly half of our revenue to be subscription.
Of course, we will still then be significantly reliant on advertising, so I am spending time with our sales & partnerships teams to ensure that Twitter continues to be appealing to advertisers.
This is the Spaces discussion that Robin, Yoel and I hosted today: [Link to Elon Q&A: Advertising & the Future removed]
The road ahead is arduous and will require intense work to succeed. We are also changing Twitter policy such that remote work is no longer allowed unless you have a specific exception. Managers will send the exception lists to me for review and approval.
Starting tomorrow (Thursday), everyone is required to be in the office for a minimum of 40 hours per week. Obviously, if you are physically unable to travel to an office or have a critical personal obligation, then your absence is understandable.
I look forward to working with you to take Twitter to a whole new level. The potential is truly incredible!
Thanks,
Elon
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/read-elon-musks-first-email-to-all-twitter-employees.html
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 10 November 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
Spokesperson for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly says they're in communication with Twitter to address the fake-but-verified Eli Lilly tweet that has been up for three hours and has 1,500 retweets and 10,000 likes https://t.co/Ai3lq50YRh pic.twitter.com/zIWDsd8c0B— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) November 10, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
lmao
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:28 (one year ago) link
truly amazing
― sleeve, Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
Seems bad pic.twitter.com/Yw73QtGVMS— will scarlett (@willscarlett) November 10, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link
I fully expected him to shit the bed. I did not expect him to shit the bed, trip down the stairs while running the soiled sheets to the washing machine only to shit all over the stairs causing him to slip and fall ass first into the furnace where the pilot light ignites an explosion that showers the entire Bay Area in a gigantic shit-storm.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhPVhlIWAAAlspE?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:38 (one year ago) link
like a thousand onions exploding in the sky at once
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
How is that Tesla account still up lol
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:46 (one year ago) link
I applied one of my accounts for reinstatement cos "Elon's in charge"
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
Only cos I wanna impersonate people
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 November 2022 23:50 (one year ago) link
lol map
― sleeve, Friday, 11 November 2022 00:00 (one year ago) link
I love how when ppl impersonate Musk they get canned immediately but other peple being maliciously impersonated (like Mueller She Wrote) get no traction at all. Go team.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 11 November 2022 00:02 (one year ago) link
less than two weeks ago
Watching @elonmusk + Co take over Twitter is like watching a business school case study on how to make money on the internet. Amazing that at some level it is so basic. Lesson one: charge your power users what they are willing to pay. 1/3— Jessica Lessin (@Jessicalessin) October 31, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 00:11 (one year ago) link
I love how when ppl impersonate Musk they get canned immediately but other peple being maliciously impersonated (like Mueller She Wrote) get no traction at all.
Elon is such a troll himself, he'd be loving this shit if the joke wasn't on him. Doesn't surprise me if they make other people being impersonated a low priority
― Vinnie, Friday, 11 November 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
Mods please rename the thread board "Elon Q&A: Advertising & the Future removed"
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 11 November 2022 01:09 (one year ago) link
We ❤️ apartheid— AIPAC (@AIPAC_USA) November 11, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
Elon is such a troll himself, he'd be loving this shit if the joke wasn't on him.
Seems like he is when it isn't!
https://i.imgur.com/d5nGn3b.png
― jaymc, Friday, 11 November 2022 01:33 (one year ago) link
can someone just uh make youtube
Musk wants Twitter to take on YouTube. He is tasking employees with making a program to pay creators to post video on Twitter and somehow earn rev share. (Will likely add to his already deep expenses — Musk said the company could have negative cash flow in the billions next year)— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 11, 2022
do it fast
A quote: “I’m a big believer in having just a maniacal sense of urgency. So if you can do it after this meeting, I would do it after this meeting. Just a maniacal sense of urgency. Like, if you want to get stuff done, maniacal sense of urgency. Just go ‘aahh!’ Hardcore!”— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 11, 2022
and make a sharper image too
“I’d love to see ads for gizmos…Even if they’re not that great, I’ll still buy gizmos. I love technology. I’ll see content for gizmos but not an ad or an ability to actually buy the gizmo. So then I have to send it to my assistant like, ‘Please buy this gizmo.’”— Alex Heath (@alexeheath) November 11, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 01:36 (one year ago) link
🐦[We ❤️ apartheid— AIPAC (@AIPAC_USA) November 11, 2022🕸]🐦
― poppin' debussy (the table is the table), Friday, 11 November 2022 01:37 (one year ago) link
Going forward, accounts engaged in parody must include “parody” in their name, not just in bio— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 11, 2022
lol
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 11 November 2022 02:24 (one year ago) link
“I’m not owned!”
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 11 November 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link
Meanwhile, I just got an alert with a Log4j error … in the iOS app. Everything is fine.
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 11 November 2022 02:30 (one year ago) link
is he on coke or did he always talk like this
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 11 November 2022 02:53 (one year ago) link
his vanity project simpsons episode where they get lisa to call him the world's greatest inventor has aged about as well as south park episodes about global warming
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Friday, 11 November 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
Star Trek needs to go back and edit out references to him
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 11 November 2022 03:00 (one year ago) link
lol at whenever people bring up "creators"
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 November 2022 04:21 (one year ago) link
I wanna joke about this but holy fuck this is all so surreal and deeply fucking hilarious
― frogbs, Friday, 11 November 2022 04:33 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9XGgBxR.jpeg
― StanM, Friday, 11 November 2022 04:40 (one year ago) link
BREAKING: A second Tesla has hit the World Trade Center— Tesla (@TesIaReal) November 10, 2022
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 11 November 2022 05:40 (one year ago) link
italian musk has me in tears xD
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 11 November 2022 07:52 (one year ago) link
man sounds so thick when you hear him speak
― conrad, Friday, 11 November 2022 10:12 (one year ago) link
This was at the end of another piece I read this morning too.
what a sentence pic.twitter.com/AHeoseVX63— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) November 10, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 November 2022 10:13 (one year ago) link
This is the most pathetic man in the world pic.twitter.com/3knHxE6ejQ— isi baehr-breen (its pronounced ‘izzy’) (@isaiah_bb) November 10, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 November 2022 10:15 (one year ago) link
This is wild.
Musk has learned nothing since he was fired from PayPal. https://t.co/lhvFpGZfR7 pic.twitter.com/5QaF4X7UaU— Asher Langton (@AsherLangton) November 11, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 11 November 2022 10:29 (one year ago) link
and then you go to mars
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 12:24 (one year ago) link
SailorsFighting in the dancehalls
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 November 2022 12:27 (one year ago) link
still leaning hard on the "elon musk is a standard-issue fraudster" lever here
he's not very bright? lots of fraudsters are wildly dim, ponzi and madoff and the FTX guy all got caught bcz one bad day the money wasn't where they said (or anywhere else), they had no plan B
the smart fraudsters are the ones whose names we never learn
― mark s, Friday, 11 November 2022 13:25 (one year ago) link
you keep repeating that line and frankly it's a little suspicious
― rob, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
👀
― mark s, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
Not sure what it would mean for Musk to be a fraudster a la Madoff. Do you mean there's some big accounting fraud lurking inside one or all of his companies?
― o. nate, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
The most amusing thought to me is how Elon Musk made a social media network an overnight success but its Mastodon
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 11 November 2022 14:28 (one year ago) link
that has been the #TSLAQ hypothesis for years and years running now xp
― 龜, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
he's only like madoff in that neither of them are very bright, i wasn't arguing that their schemes were similar, #TSLAQ notwithstanding
EM's -- or at least this is what i was responding to -- is the paypal card twitter bank scheme, which he hasn't yet succeeded in setting up
― mark s, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
Many successful companies have turned out to be harboring major accounting fraud. However, the last big wave of accounting scandals was in the early 2000s, and since then regulation has gotten more stringent (e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley). But who knows, maybe we're about due for another wave.
― o. nate, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
crypto has much less stringent regulation plus an on-going series of, well, revelations and disappopintment shall we say
― mark s, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
Well, yes. But despite his occasional boosterism for Dogecoin, Musk doesn't have much to do with crypto, AFAIK.
― o. nate, Friday, 11 November 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
*crowd watching a horrific car crash* everyone loves this car
Usage of Twitter continues to rise. One thing is for sure: it isn’t boring!— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 10, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 November 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link