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Blowin started the topic in Friday, 21 Jun 2019 at 8:01am

Have it cunts

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flollo Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 10:16am
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Do you really think Elon wouldn't have known all the figures and financial risk and challenges ahead???

Do you really think the richest man in the world would not have a team of people crunching figures and looking at all kinds of different scenarios???

He has moved fast in important areas like cutting staff and id expect getting more productivity from those remaining and also implementing new ideas quickly, but it's way way way to early to judge if his vision will be successful both from a users view and a business income view, just because he launches some grey tick and then retracts it means little in the scheme of things, give him a few months maybe even six months or more then let's start judging things.

You can also bet he has surrounded himself with the very best people in all the fields needed and you would expect he has all kinds of plans to improve things and produce income.

Based on his past success its more likely he will turn it into a money making business in a year or two and create a much more user friendly platform in the next few months where people will be able to share and debate ideas in a much more free way.

Yet to be confirmed, but apparently 75% of the remaining 3,700-odd Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the “hardcore” email.

However, confirmed is that Twitter has closed employee access to all of its offices.

He is literally draining the swamp of woke self self entitled lazy millennials, to replace them with people who want to work, you can imagine how lazy they were before (even videos showing it) imagine how lazy they are now when they don't believe in Musk vision or like their boss, probably causing issues rather than fixing them.

I get that retraining staff is never a great scenario, but one new worker will probably do ten times the amount of work of the staff he lets go, you would expect these are low skilled jobs and not coders etc

I do worry he is pushing things a little hard, but i also have faith in him and i love his balls to the wall open to all approach and his sense of humour.

I get that it's not something everyone appreciates though, wish we could fast forward six months and see what happens.

So, he is killing off half his customers…they maybe woke but woke buy stuff, and advertisers like people that buy stuff.

Spot on Roadkill, at the end of the day these are customers. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Holmes just got 11 years for the Theranos fraud. I wonder how many of those are coming? With money being thrown on startup founders in enormous amounts over the last decade one would expect a wave of upcoming fraud charges. FTX is a lesson that keeps on giving everyday, who’s next?

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indo-dreaming Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 1:33pm
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indo-dreaming wrote:

Do you really think Elon wouldn't have known all the figures and financial risk and challenges ahead???

Do you really think the richest man in the world would not have a team of people crunching figures and looking at all kinds of different scenarios???

He has moved fast in important areas like cutting staff and id expect getting more productivity from those remaining and also implementing new ideas quickly, but it's way way way to early to judge if his vision will be successful both from a users view and a business income view, just because he launches some grey tick and then retracts it means little in the scheme of things, give him a few months maybe even six months or more then let's start judging things.

You can also bet he has surrounded himself with the very best people in all the fields needed and you would expect he has all kinds of plans to improve things and produce income.

Based on his past success its more likely he will turn it into a money making business in a year or two and create a much more user friendly platform in the next few months where people will be able to share and debate ideas in a much more free way.

Yet to be confirmed, but apparently 75% of the remaining 3,700-odd Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the “hardcore” email.

However, confirmed is that Twitter has closed employee access to all of its offices.

He is literally draining the swamp of woke self self entitled lazy millennials, to replace them with people who want to work, you can imagine how lazy they were before (even videos showing it) imagine how lazy they are now when they don't believe in Musk vision or like their boss, probably causing issues rather than fixing them.

I get that retraining staff is never a great scenario, but one new worker will probably do ten times the amount of work of the staff he lets go, you would expect these are low skilled jobs and not coders etc

I do worry he is pushing things a little hard, but i also have faith in him and i love his balls to the wall open to all approach and his sense of humour.

I get that it's not something everyone appreciates though, wish we could fast forward six months and see what happens.

So, he is killing off half his customers…they maybe woke but woke buy stuff, and advertisers like people that buy stuff.

Huh???

They aren't customers they are employees, he just wants employees who are normal people(not ideology driven or at least a broad mix of views) and decent workers.

9 out of 10 people that are going to leave twitter would have left already, but most are still on twitter doing what most people on twitter do giving their 2 cents worth.

It seems twitter is even receiving record user numbers.

Im certain the woke and left are just as welcome on twitter as anyone else, Musk and sensible people in general dont restrict or cancel people based on opposing thoughts or ideologies, they discuss or challenge opposing views instead, canceling is weak and only done by people that know their views are wrong.

BTW. Many of the biggest sponsors to leave or pause sponsorship were automobile companies, they left not because of fear of hate speech or uncertainty, but more because Musk owns Tesla and they fear their advertising won't get bang for buck or be suppressed or that he will use any data for Telsla benefit, or even anding money to Twitter is helping Musk/Tesla in a sense.

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indo-dreaming Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 1:30pm

"Elon Musk begins unbanning some high-profile Twitter accounts, starting with Jordan Peterson and Kathy Griffin"
https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-unbans-jordan-peterson-babylon...

He also unbanned Babylon bee.

This is great news Jordan was banned for using some Trans actors old name Elliot instead of Ellen.

Babylon bee similar

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Supafreak Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 1:32pm

What’s a decent worker ? Someone that works 16 hours a day 7 days a week or someone that knows what they are actually doing and gets the job done efficiently in a minimal amount of time ? If you’re good at your job what’s the problem doing it from home ?

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indo-dreaming Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 1:38pm

Its subjective and really up to the employer in this case Musk, but judging from things read and video it doesn't seem like much productivity has ever happened at twitter.

When you employee people you also want people who are on board with your vision, you dont want people who are suppose to be working for you working against you.

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flollo Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 1:44pm
Supafreak wrote:

What’s a decent worker ? Someone that works 16 hours a day 7 days a week or someone that knows what they are actually doing and gets the job done efficiently in a minimal amount of time ? If you’re good at your job what’s the problem doing it from home ?

It’s about the results. As long as they are achieved no one cares if someone did it in 6 or 10 hours. Musk is good in building from scratch which usually involves very lean resources and almost cult like dedication. But managing an established corporation is a different beast. It gets too big and cult effect drops off. Employees’ expectations and goals eventually get closer to the mean.

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Supafreak Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 3:35pm

This guys take on what musk is doing at Twitter is similar to indo’s views . In the comments some agree , some have good points for why it doesn’t add up . Be interesting to see if Twitter survives until xmas . https://twitter.com/oliverbcampbell/status/1593434329153245185?s=46&t=cOjHAZjAuCcqnDBtIGRLYQ

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thermalben Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 4:29pm

Much of what he said made some kind of sense, but I still have a feeling Elon is flying by the seat of his pants right now.

Also unsure why Elon would spend $44 billion to give the above suggestion a whirl. There are other ways he could have achieved it (indeed, in April he had already become the largest shareholder).

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indo-dreaming Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 6:23pm

I 100% agree with that guys post.

I dont think it's just about work ethic though but also changing the overall culture too.

Obviously the risk is you lose people that know the ins and outs of things and retraining takes time.

BTW. Im sure normally i can only see the original post, but now i can see replies too, just wont let me view replies to replies

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indo-dreaming Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 6:23pm
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. Be interesting to see if Twitter survives until xmas .

If it's going to fail surely it's going to take much longer than a few weeks id say more like 12 months plus, he could take losses for ages and cutting staff he is minimising loses and is likely to regain sponsors rather than lose more especially if user numbers are up.

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Supafreak Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 6:53pm
indo-dreaming wrote:
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. Be interesting to see if Twitter survives until xmas .

If it's going to fail surely it's going to take much longer than a few weeks id say more like 12 months plus, he could take losses for ages and cutting staff he is minimising loses and is likely to regain sponsors rather than lose more especially if user numbers are up.

Yeah, I’m thinking more along the lines that Twitter will shutdown without the people to rectify a system failure .

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Roadkill Saturday, 19 Nov 2022 at 9:00pm
indo-dreaming wrote:
Roadkill wrote:
indo-dreaming wrote:
thermalben wrote:
indo-dreaming wrote:

Do you really think Elon wouldn't have known all the figures and financial risk and challenges ahead???

Do you really think the richest man in the world would not have a team of people crunching figures and looking at all kinds of different scenarios???

He has moved fast in important areas like cutting staff and id expect getting more productivity from those remaining and also implementing new ideas quickly, but it's way way way to early to judge if his vision will be successful both from a users view and a business income view, just because he launches some grey tick and then retracts it means little in the scheme of things, give him a few months maybe even six months or more then let's start judging things.

You can also bet he has surrounded himself with the very best people in all the fields needed and you would expect he has all kinds of plans to improve things and produce income.

Based on his past success its more likely he will turn it into a money making business in a year or two and create a much more user friendly platform in the next few months where people will be able to share and debate ideas in a much more free way.

Yet to be confirmed, but apparently 75% of the remaining 3,700-odd Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the “hardcore” email.

However, confirmed is that Twitter has closed employee access to all of its offices.

He is literally draining the swamp of woke self self entitled lazy millennials, to replace them with people who want to work, you can imagine how lazy they were before (even videos showing it) imagine how lazy they are now when they don't believe in Musk vision or like their boss, probably causing issues rather than fixing them.

I get that retraining staff is never a great scenario, but one new worker will probably do ten times the amount of work of the staff he lets go, you would expect these are low skilled jobs and not coders etc

I do worry he is pushing things a little hard, but i also have faith in him and i love his balls to the wall open to all approach and his sense of humour.

I get that it's not something everyone appreciates though, wish we could fast forward six months and see what happens.

So, he is killing off half his customers…they maybe woke but woke buy stuff, and advertisers like people that buy stuff.

Huh???

They aren't customers they are employees, he just wants employees who are normal people(not ideology driven or at least a broad mix of views) and decent workers.

9 out of 10 people that are going to leave twitter would have left already, but most are still on twitter doing what most people on twitter do giving their 2 cents worth.

It seems twitter is even receiving record user numbers.

Im certain the woke and left are just as welcome on twitter as anyone else, Musk and sensible people in general dont restrict or cancel people based on opposing thoughts or ideologies, they discuss or challenge opposing views instead, canceling is weak and only done by people that know their views are wrong.

BTW. Many of the biggest sponsors to leave or pause sponsorship were automobile companies, they left not because of fear of hate speech or uncertainty, but more because Musk owns Tesla and they fear their advertising won't get bang for buck or be suppressed or that he will use any data for Telsla benefit, or even anding money to Twitter is helping Musk/Tesla in a sense.

Woke workers cater to and understand a woke customer base. Get rid of the woke twitter staff and replace with a right wing group think and you drive a huge customer base away. Business needs to understand who their base is and where their revenue comes from.
A mix of ideas and staff is important.

Btw, how do you know the staff Musk is getting rid of are not normal people? And they are lazy?

Maybe you should offer your considerable knowledge of all things staff to Musk, you could be a consultant.

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yvdreh Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 6:22am

Lots of billionaire simps in the surfing world ay?

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indo-dreaming Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 8:35am
Roadkill wrote:
indo-dreaming wrote:
Roadkill wrote:
indo-dreaming wrote:
thermalben wrote:
indo-dreaming wrote:

Do you really think Elon wouldn't have known all the figures and financial risk and challenges ahead???

Do you really think the richest man in the world would not have a team of people crunching figures and looking at all kinds of different scenarios???

He has moved fast in important areas like cutting staff and id expect getting more productivity from those remaining and also implementing new ideas quickly, but it's way way way to early to judge if his vision will be successful both from a users view and a business income view, just because he launches some grey tick and then retracts it means little in the scheme of things, give him a few months maybe even six months or more then let's start judging things.

You can also bet he has surrounded himself with the very best people in all the fields needed and you would expect he has all kinds of plans to improve things and produce income.

Based on his past success its more likely he will turn it into a money making business in a year or two and create a much more user friendly platform in the next few months where people will be able to share and debate ideas in a much more free way.

Yet to be confirmed, but apparently 75% of the remaining 3,700-odd Twitter employees have not opted to stay after the “hardcore” email.

However, confirmed is that Twitter has closed employee access to all of its offices.

He is literally draining the swamp of woke self self entitled lazy millennials, to replace them with people who want to work, you can imagine how lazy they were before (even videos showing it) imagine how lazy they are now when they don't believe in Musk vision or like their boss, probably causing issues rather than fixing them.

I get that retraining staff is never a great scenario, but one new worker will probably do ten times the amount of work of the staff he lets go, you would expect these are low skilled jobs and not coders etc

I do worry he is pushing things a little hard, but i also have faith in him and i love his balls to the wall open to all approach and his sense of humour.

I get that it's not something everyone appreciates though, wish we could fast forward six months and see what happens.

So, he is killing off half his customers…they maybe woke but woke buy stuff, and advertisers like people that buy stuff.

Huh???

They aren't customers they are employees, he just wants employees who are normal people(not ideology driven or at least a broad mix of views) and decent workers.

9 out of 10 people that are going to leave twitter would have left already, but most are still on twitter doing what most people on twitter do giving their 2 cents worth.

It seems twitter is even receiving record user numbers.

Im certain the woke and left are just as welcome on twitter as anyone else, Musk and sensible people in general dont restrict or cancel people based on opposing thoughts or ideologies, they discuss or challenge opposing views instead, canceling is weak and only done by people that know their views are wrong.

BTW. Many of the biggest sponsors to leave or pause sponsorship were automobile companies, they left not because of fear of hate speech or uncertainty, but more because Musk owns Tesla and they fear their advertising won't get bang for buck or be suppressed or that he will use any data for Telsla benefit, or even anding money to Twitter is helping Musk/Tesla in a sense.

Woke workers cater to and understand a woke customer base. Get rid of the woke twitter staff and replace with a right wing group think and you drive a huge customer base away. Business needs to understand who their base is and where their revenue comes from.
A mix of ideas and staff is important.

Btw, how do you know the staff Musk is getting rid of are not normal people? And they are lazy?

Maybe you should offer your considerable knowledge of all things staff to Musk, you could be a consultant.

Twitter in the past has clearly been very ideological driven from top down to the point Musk who doesn't belong to left or right a true centrist, purchased it to get rid of the ideology and create a platform that treats people fairly as possible where ideas can be debated and not canceled.

While lots of woke people use twitter, i highly doubt the user base is woke, the majority of people in society aren't woke or left or right, its fair to assume twitter users overall are the same. (BTW. again I'm certain those woke users are just as welcome by Musk to use twitter as others, and just as welcome to share their crazy views, like men can have babies etc, that's what free speech is about)

And why on earth would you think Musk wants to replace staff "with a right wing group think"???

That would be just as bad as having a a woke ideology driven platform, it goes against the whole purpose of buying twitter.

In regard to staff, the company clearly needed a clear out and a change of culture, if they are hard workers and not ideological driven then I'm sure they wouldn't want to leave and he wouldn't want to lose them.

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“Twitter in the past has clearly been very ideological driven from top down to the point Musk who doesn't belong to left or right a true centrist, purchased it to get rid of the ideology….”
Do you truly believe that Indo?

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Supafreak Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 9:19am

@indo , you say musk is all for freedom of speech and people shouldn’t be canceled, instead their views should be debated. This all sounds good but it’s not what he’s done with Twitter ( yet ) . There’s plenty of people, some professionals and well known in their fields that were canceled during covid and haven’t been allowed back . If he can so easily reinstate the people he canceled why not reinstate others ? Trump has stated he won’t come back even if invited and Musk would probably love to have him back because it would attract more viewers. Musk has started a few surveys but is having problems with bots , which is something he said he’d remove . The main adds I’m seeing at the moment are for gambling and meeting slavic women. I don’t gamble and not I’m not interested in dating sites .

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Roadkill Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 9:33am

Musk…i’m all for freedom of speech.
Engineers (multiple)….Um, actually Elon that is incorrect.
Musk…You're (all) fired.

Musk is actually a bit of a precious snowflake and can’t really take criticism or having his shortcoming or lack of knowledge / understanding highlighted.

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AndyM Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 10:12am
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“Twitter in the past has clearly been very ideological driven from top down to the point Musk who doesn't belong to left or right a true centrist, purchased it to get rid of the ideology….”
Do you truly believe that Indo?

Indo has absolutely no idea what left and right mean apart from maybe applying them to who people vote for.

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Supafreak Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 10:44am

I’d actually like to see trump back on Twitter for entertainment but even if I could sign up to truth social I would give it a pass .

. Some believe the poll is a bot trap which would actually be pretty smart if true. Comments are entertaining as always.

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GuySmiley Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 10:49am

What bewilders me is how someone who: self describes himself as someone who spent his formative school years drawing instead of listening to teachers; says he doesn’t read books; and recently claimed he nolonger engages with any social media can seek to explain here such complex executive management functions like corporate change, restructuring and culture. I guess it’s possible but it’s bewildering nonetheless

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freeride76 Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 10:54am

Trump will be back on Twitter in a heartbeat if he gets a chance.

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Supafreak Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 10:55am
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Trump will be back on Twitter in a heartbeat if he gets a chance.

Definitely

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Hiccups Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 11:21am
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blackers wrote:

“Twitter in the past has clearly been very ideological driven from top down to the point Musk who doesn't belong to left or right a true centrist, purchased it to get rid of the ideology….”
Do you truly believe that Indo?

Indo has absolutely no idea what left and right mean apart from maybe applying them to who people vote for.

He only has a tenuous grasp on what "woke" means, despite liberally throwing the word around.

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velocityjohnno Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 11:42am
Supafreak wrote:

What’s a decent worker ? Someone that works 16 hours a day 7 days a week or someone that knows what they are actually doing and gets the job done efficiently in a minimal amount of time ? If you’re good at your job what’s the problem doing it from home ?

Now things are back to normal, it is time to get everyone back to the office 9-5. Elon has exactly the right idea. The surf has been way too crowded, and so many people out is scaring the fish ;)

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velocityjohnno Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 11:39am

To me it seems that Elon is doing... exactly what he said he'd do.

Here's a timeline of his whole approach to takeover:

https://www.ign.com/articles/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-and-the-chaos-t...

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velocityjohnno Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 11:52am

Poll results

Whaling and culling interesting too

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thermalben Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 11:59am
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Trump will be back on Twitter in a heartbeat if he gets a chance.

I'm curious on this.. what happens to Truth Social then? Would quickly lose the primary reason for its existence. But would Trump shut it down if it started losing traffic?

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velocityjohnno Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 12:14pm

that's fast democracy

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Roadkill Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 12:19pm

Trump loves the attention of getting him back on twitter. Twitter needs Trump more than Trump needs twitter. Trump knows this.
Everything Trump says and does is reported in various media, so twitter does not offer Trump a more wider audience than what he reaches now.
I would imagine truth social offers Trump more and with TS he is 100% in control. He may go back to twitter in the future if TS does not gain a huge number of new signups. TS is right and I don’t think too many from the left will sign up and it may be twitter than can allow him to wind up and trigger the left..depending on how many stay with twitter.

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velocityjohnno Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 12:21pm

I did predict Trump running in 2024 (he's announced - doesn't mean he'll win the Republican ticket) and twitter clearance being necessary upthread...

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indo-dreaming Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 12:26pm
blackers wrote:

“Twitter in the past has clearly been very ideological driven from top down to the point Musk who doesn't belong to left or right a true centrist, purchased it to get rid of the ideology….”
Do you truly believe that Indo?

Im honestly confused which bit you wouldn't agree with???

1. The ideological driven bit?

2. Musk political leanings?

3. Or reason for twitter purchase?

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indo-dreaming Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 12:27pm
Supafreak wrote:

@indo , you say musk is all for freedom of speech and people shouldn’t be canceled, instead their views should be debated. This all sounds good but it’s not what he’s done with Twitter ( yet ) . There’s plenty of people, some professionals and well known in their fields that were canceled during covid and haven’t been allowed back . If he can so easily reinstate the people he canceled why not reinstate others ? Trump has stated he won’t come back even if invited and Musk would probably love to have him back because it would attract more viewers. Musk has started a few surveys but is having problems with bots , which is something he said he’d remove . The main adds I’m seeing at the moment are for gambling and meeting slavic women. I don’t gamble and not I’m not interested in dating sites .

The first lift on banning only happened yesterday, they seemed the most obvious high profile bans to be lifted they were bans that made no sense to most people to begin with and very ideology driven.

Who knows what other well know bans will be lifted, obviously you start with the easy decisions first and work towards the harder ones.

Obviously many people banned have been banned for real reasons, so it doesn't mean everyone who's been banned will receive ban lifts.

And you are also never going to keep everyone happy but the aim is obviously to just find some sensible middle ground that has been missing.

Id expect its impossible to get rid of bots completely, when ive heard Musk talk its been about reducing the incentive for bots and reducing exposure to bots through algorithms, id expect that will take time.

You really need to let go of this idea that Twitter will magically become perfect overnight, things always take time the guy is literally rebuilding a company in all kinds of ways, you would expect it will take months to reshape things as needed could even take a year or so to reach his vision.

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Supafreak Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 12:41pm

Indo said “ You really need to let go of this idea that Twitter will magically become perfect overnight, “ this is hilarious indo , you need to let go of this idea that everything is going to plan .

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indo-dreaming wrote:
blackers wrote:

“Twitter in the past has clearly been very ideological driven from top down to the point Musk who doesn't belong to left or right a true centrist, purchased it to get rid of the ideology….”
Do you truly believe that Indo?

Im honestly confused which bit you wouldn't agree with???

1. The ideological driven bit?

2. Musk political leanings?

3. Or reason for twitter purchase?

All of it really, but principally the reason for buying Twitter. Coz if it is true then your idealogy argument becomes irrelevant as the purchase is an idealogical move. The bloke is a business man, he does stuff to make money, anything said otherwise is just Snake oil showpony shit. As shown by how hard he tried to pull back from the deal once he realised he had offered well over the odds. As for all the earlier discussion of productivity and the 10% of staff who do v 90% dead weight, it would be interesting to see the basis for those figures. They sound pretty much made up to support an idealogical viewpoint to me. Anyways, enjoy your day.

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freeride76 Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 12:48pm
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Trump will be back on Twitter in a heartbeat if he gets a chance.

I'm curious on this.. what happens to Truth Social then? Would quickly lose the primary reason for its existence. But would Trump shut it down if it started losing traffic?

I'm just guessing, but I think he will do both.

Maintain TS for his base and go back onto Twitter to get back his "mainstream" audience.

Trump's twitter ban definitely reduced his media reach.

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Supafreak Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 1:10pm

Truth social has just over 4 million subscribers, trump had 86 million followers on Twitter. Truth social isn’t trumps money and has some problems of its own . https://time.com/6216670/trump-truth-social-struggles/

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Roadkill Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 1:17pm
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Truth social has just over 4 million subscribers, trump had 86 million followers on Twitter. Truth social isn’t trumps money and has some problems of its own . https://time.com/6216670/trump-truth-social-struggles/

Truth Social is Trumps vanity / ego play. That ego / vanity is used in 99% of decisions Trump makes.

Will be an interesting battle to watch play out.

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indo-dreaming Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 1:19pm
Supafreak wrote:

Indo said “ You really need to let go of this idea that Twitter will magically become perfect overnight, “ this is hilarious indo , you need to let go of this idea that everything is going to plan .

My understanding from what others have said in interviews and from Musk is he doesn't work like how you might expect, this is the plan and we follow it and we either succeed or fail.

I think he works more with a basic plan and idea but then adjust as needed, he is constantly adapting and re evaluating things and isn't scared to make mistakes or admit when he does or care at all what others think, this is the way he works and the process he uses.

This was reconfirmed to me yesterday listening to a podcast with Robert Zubrin American aerospace engineer about getting to Mars and living on mars ect, he has worked with Elon and has great respect for him and says he will get his flight going to mars and was explaining that Musk might blow up six ships getting there but by doing so each time he will learn and improve, this is the process he uses.

If something doesnt work out, its not a failure its an experience to learn from and part of the process, I guess thats the difference between people like Musk and most of us, we look at things as either failure or success instead of looking at things as a process to success.

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thermalben Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 1:24pm

So why buy it in the first place, if you don't know exactly how to fix it? $44 billion is a lot for a bit of a larf.

I reckon this bloke has the most accurate take on what's happened.

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velocityjohnno Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 1:24pm

Absolutely Indo, try and if you don't succeed, refine or replan and try again

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flollo Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 1:25pm

And he’s back. Fun times ahead.

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flollo Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 1:27pm
thermalben wrote:

So why buy it in the first place, if you don't know exactly how to fix it? $44 billion is a lot for a bit of a larf.

I reckon this bloke has the most accurate take on what's happened.

https://twitter.com/drskyskull/status/1593465921498144769

Why buy it? Ego, vanity, god complex…? Irrationality is complex but it exists and we need to live with it.

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velocityjohnno Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 2:34pm
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Roadkill Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 3:42pm
thermalben wrote:

So why buy it in the first place, if you don't know exactly how to fix it? $44 billion is a lot for a bit of a larf.

I reckon this bloke has the most accurate take on what's happened.

https://twitter.com/drskyskull/status/1593465921498144769

That is an epic read

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andy-mac Sunday, 20 Nov 2022 at 3:58pm
thermalben wrote:

So why buy it in the first place, if you don't know exactly how to fix it? $44 billion is a lot for a bit of a larf.

I reckon this bloke has the most accurate take on what's happened.

https://twitter.com/drskyskull/status/1593465921498144769

Haha, right wing, mouth breathers!