Elon Musk

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.

the lenders will be bloodied but probably fine. it's musk's buddies who bought equity that are probably nervously tugging their collars.

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

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

lmao

truly amazing

Seems bad pic.twitter.com/Yw73QtGVMS

— will scarlett (@willscarlett) November 10, 2022

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.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhPVhlIWAAAlspE?format=jpg&name=medium

like a thousand onions exploding in the sky at once

How is that Tesla account still up lol

I applied one of my accounts for reinstatement cos "Elon's in charge"

Only cos I wanna impersonate people

lol map

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.

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

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

Mods please rename the thread board "Elon Q&A: Advertising & the Future removed"

We ❤️ apartheid

— AIPAC (@AIPAC_USA) November 11, 2022

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

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

🐦[We ❤️ apartheid
— AIPAC (@AIPAC_USA) November 11, 2022🕸]🐦

Going forward, accounts engaged in parody must include “parody” in their name, not just in bio

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 11, 2022

lol

“I’m not owned!”

Meanwhile, I just got an alert with a Log4j error … in the iOS app. Everything is fine.

is he on coke or did he always talk like this

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

Star Trek needs to go back and edit out references to him

lol at whenever people bring up "creators"

I wanna joke about this but holy fuck this is all so surreal and deeply fucking hilarious

https://i.imgur.com/9XGgBxR.jpeg

BREAKING: A second Tesla has hit the World Trade Center

— Tesla (@TesIaReal) November 10, 2022

italian musk has me in tears xD

man sounds so thick when you hear him speak

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

This is the most pathetic man in the world pic.twitter.com/3knHxE6ejQ

— isi baehr-breen (its pronounced ‘izzy’) (@isaiah_bb) November 10, 2022

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

and then you go to mars

Sailors
Fighting in the dancehalls

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

you keep repeating that line and frankly it's a little suspicious

👀

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?

The most amusing thought to me is how Elon Musk made a social media network an overnight success but its Mastodon

that has been the #TSLAQ hypothesis for years and years running now xp

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

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.

crypto has much less stringent regulation plus an on-going series of, well, revelations and disappopintment shall we say

Well, yes. But despite his occasional boosterism for Dogecoin, Musk doesn't have much to do with crypto, AFAIK.

*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