Elon Musk
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What a disaster of rushing without thinking. Seems like eLoN is being driven by emotion, not rational product thinking.
Take this example thread:
A viral set of photos from the US election night triggers some Verified Blue twitter user called @zachallenphoto. He’s accusing the photojournalist of intentionally creating a false narrative. Anyway the photographer works for a newspaper and zachallen is some absolute nobody with only 45 Followers!
But now because the idiot of the group has the blue check, his words carry more weight because of the history of what the blue check meant. You actually have to dig in to both profiles to understand that one person here is a legitimate photojournalist and the verified blue user is some crackpot. And you’d find out there is no ill intent. It’s just the way Twitter creates captions for groups of photos.
Ok. So this is what eLoN wants, people digging into the details of who said what. But that’s not actually going to happen, because people don’t have time to investigate every fucking tweet that offends them. Even if they have the time, they won’t do it.
So really, if eLOn wanted equal ground, he would say “no more blue checks for anyone” but you can’t sell that. So he’s trying to fuck it up enough that everyone feels forced to buy a blue check. But they won’t.
Only the zachallen’s of the world will be the new customers for Twitter Blue. It’ll be the people who want to shout louder than everyone else even though they’ve done nothing to deserve it. The entitled assholes who talk over everyone at work or a party because they’re convinced that everyone would benefit from their superior insights.
Elon can’t see this coming because he lives in a different world than the rest of us. The billionaire businessman world. A good ceo and leader would take a couple weeks to listen to other perspectives before rushing to solutions. But not elon. He thinks he knows everything.
Expect more failures. Expect twitter to suck harder than ever.
- https://twitter.com/… This thread here********
- You’ll have to click see more replies in the app to understand the story. Again, a failure of design.********
- i actually don't think Twitter will survive, in the end. I give it a year and a half, two years at a stretch.Continuity
- Musk will grind it into the dirt, and more advertisers will jump ship.Continuity
- It will limp along. But yes, advertisers are going to flee even faster. They don’t want chaos, they want predictable ROI********
- And in this economy? In a recession, marketing budgets get slashed FIRST. Every dollar spent is careful and demands an ROI. Twitter is fucked.********
- My guess is that eLoN knows he fucked this deal up, and he’s scrambling. Doesn’t make much difference though. He can’t save a sinking ship********
- dude, he moved on to gray verified checks ... blue checks only mean someone paid for something meaninglessmonospaced
- Btw, advertisers don’t give a fuck about free speech or whatever. Think about anyone you ever met that is a senior-level person in marketing.********
- Trump head a blue check. It just meant that he was Trump. That's what blue checks have always meant.
Now he's turning them into NFTs.palimpsest - Those selling them, buying them and buying into them are all idiots.palimpsest
- People didn't believe Trump because he had a blue check, they believed him because he was saying what appealed to them.palimpsest
- Trump isn’t the point. Ultra famous people like POTUS don’t need a blue check feature, really.********
- Let me ax you this:
In two opposing opinions from two unknown people do you think the user is gonna go the one with the blue check or the one they agree with?palimpsest - It’s not about “opinions”********
- If twitter was just opinions, we wouldn’t have to worry about it nearly as much. There’d be no blue checks or celebrity users or anything********
- "Trump isn't the point."
There's something we agree on.
XDpalimpsest - What is Twitter if not opinions?palimpsest
- Yeah, Twitter is just people sharing opinions like they were worth listening to.monospaced
- I'll change my question and replace the word opinions...palimpsest
- In two different narrative from two unknown people do you think the user is gonna go the one with the blue check or the one they agree with?palimpsest
- Feel free to replace the word narrative.palimpsest
- https://twitter.com/… This thread here