Elon Musk

love 2 experiment with 300 fewer welds in the chassis

as long as someone else is driving it

I already posted this in the quitting twitter thread, but icymi: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-25/black-tesla-employees-fremont-plant-racism-california-lawsuit

I guess some things don't need reinventing

I found this a good read
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-elon-musk-bought-twitter

reminded me of this:
https://wolfstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/US-Tesla-market-cap-v-top-10_2021-10-25-.png

totally man

Quintuple revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028.
In his pitch deck, Mr. Musk claimed he would increase Twitter’s annual revenue to $26.4 billion by 2028, up from $5 billion last year.

Cut Twitter’s reliance on advertising to less than 50 percent of revenue.
Under Mr. Musk, advertising would fall to 45 percent of total revenue, down from around 90 percent in 2020. In 2028, advertising would generate $12 billion in revenue and subscriptions nearly $10 billion, according to the document. Other revenue would come from businesses such as data licensing.

Add $69 million in subscription revenue from Twitter Blue.
Mr. Musk plans to boost Twitter’s subscription revenue with services such as Twitter Blue, for which users pay $3 a month to customize their experience on the app. According to the pitch deck, Mr. Musk expects $69 million in revenue from Twitter Blue by 2025.

Elon Musk’s vision for twitter includes *very* aggressive growth over the next three years — we got ahold of his pitch deck to investors

here’s a breakdown of the numbers

w/ @LaurenSHirsch @PreetaTweets https://t.co/yG4McSTffx

— rat king (@MikeIsaac) May 6, 2022

lmao wow

I feel like "got high on his own supply" might be the solution to the mystery of ~why elon bought twitter~

like sure the richest man alive might pay $3 a month for twitter lol

69 million users huh

There's definitely a market for people who'd pay $10/mo to tweet without seeing people post the pig poop balls image in response but I don't know if a billion people work in the media.

damn hardcore software engineering wow

If Twitter acquisition completes, company will be super focused on hardcore software engineering, design, infosec & server hardware https://t.co/m2HseK0TXl

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2022

Deal still hasn’t closed and he’s qualifying with “If.”

*buys grocery store* we are getting to work on selling food

You could argue that being a very visible troll online kickstarted Tesla's success and made them a household name, which I think speaks to jimbeaux's point.

If anything, I think that taking on both the National Automobile Dealers Association and the United Launch Alliance monopolies needed a colossal troll - succeeding at it may be more of an accomplishment than actually building electric cars and reusable rockets.

super focused on hardcore food sales

hardcore software engineering: creating an alternative to OnlyFans

This is one of the worst worlds

Earth 666

Say what you will, but even after the pummeling we've given it, the toxins we've poured into the air, water and sky, the sixth mass extinction we've instigated, and the evil we do to one another, our earth is a fucking paradise, a garden of Eden, a staggering miracle of breathtaking magnitude, and a sacred vessel of life worthy of our worship unto our dying breath.

and elon musk can eat a bag of dicks

Hear hear! Why just this morning I fondly observed the mating ritual of a couple of fruit flies.

(If anyone happens to be wondering, I don’t even know if I’m being sarcastic any more. Irony is dead.)

If you can show me a more habitable planet anywhere in the universe, I'll buy it for you. I'm willing to pay up to $10,000 more than we paid for this one.

switching my focus to hardcore terraforming

Who could've thunk this would be on the list?

BREAKING: Elon Musk said on Tuesday that he would allow former President Donald Trump back on Twitter if the Tesla CEO follows through with his plan to buy the social media company. https://t.co/JLwe00ztzE

— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 10, 2022

In an exclusive interview with Financial Times at Future of the Car conference on Tuesday, Musk was asked about Trump's potential return to Twitter. Rather than immediately answering directly, Musk said that he believes permanent bans on Twitter should be "extremely rare" and reserved for "bots, or spam/scam accounts."

weird, who would have guessed that elon musk's solution to moderation would be have no moderation?!

you know what would make the global town square better? let's write to all of those skinheads and let them know they're invited to the fall social!!!

"I do think that it was not correct to ban Donald Trump," Musk said. "I think that was a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice."

i'm sorry, so, if i read that correctly, if it DID ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice, that would have made it correct?

twitter's not even in the top 10 of social media platforms

That's why Musk is using other people's money to buy it

Right. No way he could buy Google or Facebook etc. Twitter was the only one that was affordable & available.

Right. No way he could buy Google or Facebook etc. Twitter was the only one that was affordable & available.

Twitter subscriptions will either be $5 a month to not see Trump's tweets or $15 a month to see all of them.

the thing about twitter is its not like the other social networks it has lots of famous people experts media people and so forth people make news on it musk has himself many times it has way more reach than its bottom line numbers would imply, thats why he wants it, and he prob thinks he can monetize that reach somehow, but he cant

it is also interestingly the media place where hes gotten by far the most criticism

can't blame a guy for wanting to be the ultimate mod but heavy is the head

yeah it seems like a pretty bad idea to me but what do i know i dont have buy twitter money just lying around

pretty crazy that tesla stock is down 20% since he decided he was gonna do this, tbf market is down altogether but not that much

considering that stock is what hes putting up you gotta think that if it keeps falling the deal will stop making sense to him at some point

idk man the guy loves twitter and i'm pretty sure he thinks if he owns it he's king of the world

if you own twitter you can add likes to your posts and no one will know

whatever makes him happy

what are all these free speech, centrism etc claims supposed to amount to you can already go on there and post pretty much whatever you want

'"I think Twitter needs to be much more evenhanded. It currently has a strong left bias because it's based in San Francisco...from their perspective, it seems moderate, but they're just coming...from an environment that is very far left."' @elonmusk https://t.co/LketxgQeaq

— Nick Gillespie (@nickgillespie) May 10, 2022

hell reinstate trump and a handful of awful right wing account thatve been banned i guess

there are also places where twitter will get dragged by the courts for being a publisher of defamatory content etc. you cant just disable moderation and go on your merry way

yeah doubt he does any sort of serious moderation changed theres just too much downside, its all for show, but i can certainly see why tesla shareholders wouldnt be psyched about the show you dont really want your media darling ceo getting super political

you cant just disable moderation and go on your merry way

why not? i'm thinking, here, of the millions pg places i've seen with shitty to nonexistent moderation that publish content and go along their merry way

millions pg places

fingers punched to the right by a small animal for the middle word

for instance if someone was posting revenge porn and twitter knew about it and did nothing or were just totally negligent they could get in some sort of trouble, which is not to say there arent tons of places online that dont break laws all the time but most dont have the profile of twitter, tbh the bigger threat if they stopped moderating is just the place going to hell and people stop using it, like if you ever check out those twitter clones for right wing psychos they are not places almost anyone would want to go

but seriously this guy is supposed to be selling cars and instead hes in the press with his name attached to the single most polarizing political figure in the world this is insane behavior

yeah its really hard to see the upside. musk/tesla already has insane brand recognition and reach and owning buying twitter won't do much from a pr perspective.

if anything twitter is currently perceived as a fairly liberal space for ideas etc so people supporting musk on twitter can be reported on as a reliable indication of reality. the minute musk takes ownership all news of twitter goings on will be noted as "musks social media network, twitter" and it will lose trustworthiness for those who follow stocks

"I think Twitter needs to be much more evenhanded. It currently has a strong left bias because it's based in San Francisco...from their perspective, it seems moderate, but they're just coming...from an environment that is very far left."

that is preposterous, this city is not far left, but it's clear you don't want to be here so just buy it and move the company to Florida or Texas, good riddance

I'm dubious of most media "don't look here, look over here" misdirections, but it's worth noting that Musk's "I'd let Trump back on Twitter" announcement occurred the same day/time as Tesla recalls 130,000 vehicles to fix touchscreen issues caused by an overheating CPUs.