Did he get rid of “official” the day it launched?
I just killed it— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
Can’t tell if he’s talking about that one account or the entire feature.
check around a bit, it's gone
― mh, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:08 (one year ago) link
https://media2.giphy.com/media/weATfOb625cIM/200w.gif?cid=6c09b952dongs9ps3fi7szqh911i263c6g79sq52jggztyyx&rid=200w.gif&ct=g
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
amazing, poor Esther
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
I think you can still buy yourself a blue check, right? idk
― mh, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
Tesla shares still falling
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
down down down
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
the stock is down because Elon is unloading a chunk into the market
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/08/elon-musk-sells-at-least-3point95-billion-worth-of-tesla-shares.html
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
is that bad
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
Didn’t that happen a week and a half ago?
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
i also unloaded 3.95 billion worth… of poop
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
if you want to short tesla then this is one way to do it
I'm sorry, some clown launched an ETF that was just 7 different short TSLA positions? Short equity, long bear put spreads, short QQQ, long an inverse QQQ ETF, QQQ puts, short ARKK, long an inverse ARK ETF? https://t.co/IOTFSBqQtX— Quantian (@quantian1) October 31, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhA8GhFXkAATsrt?format=jpg&name=900x900
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
i like how little sleep he's getting
― mark s, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
Source for that, sorry
coming to a realization pic.twitter.com/s6eSJheWpC— MJ (@amorgus_) November 8, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
lmao
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
I just listened to Elon Musk on a Twitter Space that was intended for advertising partners. This is what he said at the outset. It's hard to come to any other conclusion that he has little understanding of human communication, or indeed behavior on the platform he owns. pic.twitter.com/ZiYtLNLd0a— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) November 9, 2022
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
he really is doing a lowtax
Elon in a Twitter space right now: "If someone tries to impersonate a brand, we will get rid of them and we will keep their $8. And they can keep doing that and we will do it again."— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 9, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
xp“Now truth can be a somewhat nebulous concept”…it’s like trying to discuss science on ILX, ha!
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
Dude would be a much more convincing idealist if he weren't such an aggressively shit-posting asshole.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
I wonder how many people would believe Chairman Mao quotes attributed to Buddha
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
He’s out of his mind
https://t.co/VWo3MvENej pic.twitter.com/sAvE1DlTrO— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 9, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
Lol I ain't giving Twitter access to anything but my shitposts
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
Tesla’s stock selloff intensifies, on track for lowest close in nearly 2 years
― Liz D. (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
oh yes please, let me link my bank account to this flaming pile of dog shit that is soon to be even more rampant with grifters and crypto hackers
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, November 9, 2022 2:07 PM (one hour ago)
well if it did, elon would be in violation for not timely reporting it to the SEC (he's been in trouble with the SEC before but not for that)
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
Musk right now casually walking through his grand payments vision for Twitter:Users could link their online bank account to Twitter, he says. Then the company will offer "extremely compelling money market account to get extremely high yield on your balance". Add debit cards etc— Hannah Murphy (@MsHannahMurphy) November 9, 2022
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
would be cool if elon announced twitter was getting into crypto like facebook/libra lol
― 龜, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
The fanboys acting like this is some cunning plan... he didn't need to spend $44bn on Twitter to turn it into Venmobook.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
he's re-founding Paypal
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:54 (one year ago) link
Elon is unloading a chunk
gross
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
uh oh
Reporter: Do you think Elon Musk is a national security threat and should be investigated?Biden: [long pause] "I think that Elon Musk’s cooperation and/or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at..." pic.twitter.com/OTnlsi4GON— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) November 9, 2022
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 9 November 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
8 is a lucky number in China. And his thing cost $8. DO U SEE.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 9 November 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link
lmao at him only knowing PayPal and seeing WeChat as something successful that maybe he could do
― mh, Thursday, 10 November 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
Biden trolling Glenn Greenwald
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 10 November 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
Twitter is now blocking new accounts from its $8 Twitter Blue verified tierThe rule change is to tackle issue of new accounts being made which are then getting verified and used to impersonate high profile accounts FIREFIGHTING! 🔥😆https://t.co/3rGkY41wZH pic.twitter.com/cbACpfmhX7— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 10, 2022
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Thursday, 10 November 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
They should really look into why this is happening.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 November 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
This reminds me of the Web 2.0 days when, breaking from the precedent established by Apple of masking the employees who work on products, companies would let individual designers and engineers, rather than the company, market new features. Essentially Esther is cooked and she doesn’t know it yet.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 10 November 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
moving fast breaking shit. if youre a billionaire they let you do it. jk, i just don't have to give a fuck.
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
it does make me hope for the old "gradually, then suddenly" thing
― i'm right back on my shit (Hunt3r), Thursday, 10 November 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
According to messages shared in Twitter Slack, Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned last night.An employee says it will be up to engineers to “self-certify compliance with FTC requirements and other laws.”— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 10, 2022
― groovypanda, Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
In the same message, the employee said Twitter’s current head of Legal, Alex Spiro, said “Elon is willing to take on a huge amount of risk in relation to his company and its users, because ‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.’”
― peace, man, Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
was probably heard shouting "so long shitshow!"
https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/10/twitter-lea-kissner-departs/
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
why tie bank accounts to Twitter instead of just having everyone convert their life savings to dogecoin
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
Xxp - As I posted in the Twitter thread, Alex Spiro was the defense attorney for Aaron Hernandez.
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Thursday, 10 November 2022 16:50 (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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 10 November 2022 18:03 (one year ago) link
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