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Quote from: SiliconWizard on November 22, 2022, 07:38:37 pmQuote from: Black Phoenix on November 22, 2022, 05:21:09 pmI invise a Wechat kinda app, and as Dave says, if they add video a lá YouTube then it's done.That's what I said Musk was planning, a few days ago.Anyone who thinks he invested $44 billion to just get rid of his money is a fool. That's the GDP of a small country.You may not like him or what he does, but do you really think he is that much of an idiot?Social networks are a goldmine these days and Facebook/Meta is dying. Twitter has a giant highway ahead.And I still don't get the hystery about it all.I don't think he deliberately spent $44b just to sink it, but I think it was an impulsive purchase after he got ticked off at the way they were censoring things. He tried to back out of buying it but was effectively forced to go through with it. I don't really think he thought things through or understands that particular industry or the customers they serve. The way he has been flailing with the blue check mark debacle suggests he doesn't really know what he's doing and is behaving impulsively. Facebook is showing no signs of dying, although I kind of wish it would go away. The whole metaverse thing was a flop and is going nowhere but the core service they offer is alive and well.
Quote from: Black Phoenix on November 22, 2022, 05:21:09 pmI invise a Wechat kinda app, and as Dave says, if they add video a lá YouTube then it's done.That's what I said Musk was planning, a few days ago.Anyone who thinks he invested $44 billion to just get rid of his money is a fool. That's the GDP of a small country.You may not like him or what he does, but do you really think he is that much of an idiot?Social networks are a goldmine these days and Facebook/Meta is dying. Twitter has a giant highway ahead.And I still don't get the hystery about it all.
I invise a Wechat kinda app, and as Dave says, if they add video a lá YouTube then it's done.
It is more entertaining to watch some people in this thread posting that the sky is falling.
BEV gonna be cheap, soon ?Sorry, got to call you out in THAT FALLICY.NEVER, NEVER, will be 'cheap', that's not how it's (how things), are dialed in....You've got a lot to change, there.Probably, NEVER, meaning 209 years +.
Quote from: PaulAm on November 22, 2022, 02:41:25 amHard to say which is more entertaining, the twit continuously shooting himself in the foot with monumentally bad decisions, the rush of advertisers leaving, the continuing degradation of the systems or watching the lawyers and prosecutors starting to circle an almost dead corpse.I've already taken Chris Gammell up on a public bet that Twitter won't fail. Happy to do that again. He's betting collapsed within two months. I think my money is very safe.
Hard to say which is more entertaining, the twit continuously shooting himself in the foot with monumentally bad decisions, the rush of advertisers leaving, the continuing degradation of the systems or watching the lawyers and prosecutors starting to circle an almost dead corpse.
I was quite surprised when listening to Amp Hour 609 to hear three intelligent engineers all push the idea that Twitter was on the brink of failure. I don't doubt that there will be some fundamental changes in Twitter's overall look and feel, or that there will be a slight change in the overall demographics, but I highly doubt there will be a collapse. I also don't think Elon minds those screeching the loudest leaving the platform, I bet he thinks the platform will be better without them.
Today's New York Times has an article that Musk is starting to stiff outside vendors (specifically travel invoices) for bills rung up by previous management, as part of his cost-cutting.
Quote from: TimFox on November 23, 2022, 06:36:13 pmToday's New York Times has an article that Musk is starting to stiff outside vendors (specifically travel invoices) for bills rung up by previous management, as part of his cost-cutting.A very Trumpian tactic - a man famous for stiffing his own contractors knowing they would not be able to afford to sue with his army of lawyers, but as a result finding it nearly impossible to get contractors when he needed them.
Quote from: tom66 on November 23, 2022, 06:41:54 pmQuote from: TimFox on November 23, 2022, 06:36:13 pmToday's New York Times has an article that Musk is starting to stiff outside vendors (specifically travel invoices) for bills rung up by previous management, as part of his cost-cutting.A very Trumpian tactic - a man famous for stiffing his own contractors knowing they would not be able to afford to sue with his army of lawyers, but as a result finding it nearly impossible to get contractors when he needed them.Hiring a bunch of contractors/consultants is the easiest way how to siphon the money out of a company or government institution.
Management consultants are not here to make money for our company, they are here to make money from our company. Which is why the more management consultants we hire, the more employees they say we need to fire.
There are contractors that are outright scammers or looking for any possible chance to squeze a buck.
Elon buying Twitter is definitely a good thing. He wants to clamp down on child porn, which wasn't being dealt with properly by the previous owners. People can scream all they want about bad people, being able to use bad words, but those who harm children are the lowest of the low. Targeting them should be the number one priority, not censoring politically incorrect speech.
Quote from: Zero999 on November 23, 2022, 06:30:14 pmElon buying Twitter is definitely a good thing. He wants to clamp down on child porn, which wasn't being dealt with properly by the previous owners. People can scream all they want about bad people, being able to use bad words, but those who harm children are the lowest of the low. Targeting them should be the number one priority, not censoring politically incorrect speech.Clamping down on kiddie porn…. by gutting the content moderation teams? Uh huh.