Elon Musk

gimmesometruth27

elon is going to mess with the wrong person one time and something bad is going to happen.

mickeyrat

https://twitter.com/Tazerface16/status/1650604276828483585?t=6qpJFL4ojRt3zq9Yiam46Q&s=19

Halifax2TheMax

mickeyrat said:

https://twitter.com/Tazerface16/status/1650604276828483585?t=6qpJFL4ojRt3zq9Yiam46Q&s=19

Too bad they’re not publicly traded, it’d be a good time to get in.

mickeyrat

Halifax2TheMax said:

mickeyrat said:

https://twitter.com/Tazerface16/status/1650604276828483585?t=6qpJFL4ojRt3zq9Yiam46Q&s=19

Too bad they’re not publicly traded, it’d be a good time to get in.

tesla around 162

gimmesometruth27

STONKS!!!!!! DOGECOIN!!!!!! GAMESTOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 TO THE MOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or like spacex, straight into the ground.

mickeyrat

https://twitter.com/OmarRiverosays/status/1652426078684696577?t=5ogJ8oQw0OoJT3ymDfekpw&s=19

HughFreakingDillon

Jack Dorsey was also asked on his new platform (Bluesky) if he still had confidence that Musk was the right guy to take over Twitter. His response: "no". 

mickeyrat

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2023/04/28/bluesky-what-to-know-about-twitter-musk-competitor/11760088002/

benjs

HughFreakingDillon said:

Jack Dorsey was also asked on his new platform (Bluesky) if he still had confidence that Musk was the right guy to take over Twitter. His response: "no". 

I'm curious on when Dorsey's answer would've changed from 'yes' to 'no' - my guess would be at the point when Elon tried to bail from the deal. From Dorsey's perspective, I wonder if that was the time when he started to engage in conversations about Bluesky? Lots of hypothesizing here, but it would make good business sense to let Twitter go into the hands of a assumed-to-be-crappy owner, let Twitter's shareholders still got a good deal based on the valuation of Twitter, and prepare a better app without the technical baggage.

Does that scenario seem likely to anyone else? If so, Dorsey would seem to be the more cunning businessperson of the two.

mickeyrat

benjs said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Jack Dorsey was also asked on his new platform (Bluesky) if he still had confidence that Musk was the right guy to take over Twitter. His response: "no". 

I'm curious on when Dorsey's answer would've changed from 'yes' to 'no' - my guess would be at the point when Elon tried to bail from the deal. From Dorsey's perspective, I wonder if that was the time when he started to engage in conversations about Bluesky? Lots of hypothesizing here, but it would make good business sense to let Twitter go into the hands of a assumed-to-be-crappy owner, let Twitter's shareholders still got a good deal based on the valuation of Twitter, and prepare a better app without the technical baggage.

Does that scenario seem likely to anyone else? If so, Dorsey would seem to be the more cunning businessperson of the two.

read the usa today article I linked. bluesky was already in play in 2019?

HughFreakingDillon

benjs said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Jack Dorsey was also asked on his new platform (Bluesky) if he still had confidence that Musk was the right guy to take over Twitter. His response: "no". 

I'm curious on when Dorsey's answer would've changed from 'yes' to 'no' - my guess would be at the point when Elon tried to bail from the deal. From Dorsey's perspective, I wonder if that was the time when he started to engage in conversations about Bluesky? Lots of hypothesizing here, but it would make good business sense to let Twitter go into the hands of a assumed-to-be-crappy owner, let Twitter's shareholders still got a good deal based on the valuation of Twitter, and prepare a better app without the technical baggage.

Does that scenario seem likely to anyone else? If so, Dorsey would seem to be the more cunning businessperson of the two.

actually, dorsey said he wished the board had allowed elon to bail from the deal, however, twitter never would have survived as a public company, so he acknowledged it was the only viable answer to keep the platform alive. 

https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/twitter-co-founder-jack-dorsey-says-it-all-went-south-elon-musk-social-media

benjs

mickeyrat said:

benjs said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

Jack Dorsey was also asked on his new platform (Bluesky) if he still had confidence that Musk was the right guy to take over Twitter. His response: "no". 

I'm curious on when Dorsey's answer would've changed from 'yes' to 'no' - my guess would be at the point when Elon tried to bail from the deal. From Dorsey's perspective, I wonder if that was the time when he started to engage in conversations about Bluesky? Lots of hypothesizing here, but it would make good business sense to let Twitter go into the hands of a assumed-to-be-crappy owner, let Twitter's shareholders still got a good deal based on the valuation of Twitter, and prepare a better app without the technical baggage.

Does that scenario seem likely to anyone else? If so, Dorsey would seem to be the more cunning businessperson of the two.

read the usa today article I linked. bluesky was already in play in 2019?

Well then - that's an oops on my part. Thanks mickeyrat!

mickeyrat

https://twitter.com/OmarRiverosays/status/1654086053383290881?t=LkUL4_pUDR944IG1qxoSXA&s=19

HughFreakingDillon

haha man baby strikes again. 

gimmesometruth27

mickeyrat said:

https://twitter.com/OmarRiverosays/status/1654086053383290881?t=LkUL4_pUDR944IG1qxoSXA&s=19

"UsE mY pLaTfOrM oR eLsE!!!!!"

mickeyrat

https://apnews.com/article/twitter-musk-new-ceo-woman-5e21a5bdace17828f0fd2c627435ad4f

Elon Musk

Elon Musk says he's found a woman to lead Twitter as new CEO

By BARBARA ORTUTAY and MATT O'BRIEN

Today

Elon Musk said Thursday he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it’s now called — and it's a woman. He did not name her but said she will be starting in about six weeks.

Musk, who bought Twitter last fall and has been running it since, has long insisted he is not the company’s permanent CEO. The Tesla billionaire said in a tweet Thursday that his role will transition to being Twitter's executive chairman and chief technology officer.

In mid-November, just a few weeks after buying the social media platform for $44 billion, he told a Delaware court that he does not want to be the CEO of any company.

While testifying, Musk said “I expect to reduce my time at Twitter and find somebody else to run Twitter over time.”

More than a month later, he tweeted in December: “I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job.” The pledge came after millions of Twitter users asked him to step down in a Twitter poll the billionaire himself created and promised to abide by.

In February, he told a conference he anticipated finding a CEO for San Francisco-based Twitter “probably toward the end of this year.”

Analysts who follow Twitter's business welcomed the news even without knowing who the replacement will be. Twitter's advertising business has taken a hit under Musk's mercurial rule, though the billionaire told BBC last month that the company is now “roughly” breaking even.

Elon Musk said Thursday he has found a new CEO for Twitter, or X Corp. as it’s now called — and it's a woman. He did not name her but said she will be starting in about six weeks. In February, he told a conference he anticipated finding a CEO for San Francisco-based Twitter “probably toward the end of this year.” (May 11)

“A new CEO is the only way forward for Twitter," said Insider Intelligence analyst Jasmine Enberg. "The single biggest problem with Twitter’s ad business was Elon Musk. As he steps back, Twitter can begin to unravel Musk’s personal brand from the company’s corporate image and attempt to regain trust among advertisers. The success of those efforts will depend on who takes over, but it’s difficult to imagine that the new CEO could be more controversial or damaging to Twitter’s ad business than Musk has been.”

Shares of Tesla rose about 2% Thursday after Musk made the announcement. Shareholders of the electric car company have been concerned about how much of his attention is being spent on Twitter.

Last November, he was questioned in court about how he splits his time among Tesla and his other companies, including SpaceX and Twitter. Musk had to testify in the trial in Delaware’s Court of Chancery over a shareholder’s challenge to his potentially $55 billion compensation plan as CEO of the electric car company.

Musk said he never intended to be CEO of Tesla, and that he didn’t want to be chief executive of any other companies either, preferring to see himself as an engineer. Musk also said at the time that he expected an organizational restructuring of Twitter to be completed in the next week or so. It’s been nearly six months since he said that.

Musk's tenure at Twitter's helm has been chaotic, and he's made various promises and proclamations he's backtracked or never followed up on. He began his first day firing the company's top executives, followed by roughly 80% of its staff. He's upended the platform's verification system and has scaled back content moderation and safeguards against the spread of misinformation.

Bantering with Twitter followers late last year, Musk expressed pessimism about the prospects for a new CEO, saying that person “must like pain a lot” to run a company that “has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy.”

“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor,” Musk tweeted at the time.

 

Merkin Baller

mickeyrat

https://apnews.com/article/twitter-musk-new-ceo-a5df68e9a1e5f982368390c73aeabb50

 

Elon Musk

Twitter's new CEO is an NBCUniversal executive with deep ad industry ties

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and BARBARA ORTUTAY

Yesterday

Elon Musk confirmed that the new CEO for Twitter will be NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino, an executive with deep ties to the advertising industry.

“I am excited to welcome Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO of Twitter!” Musk wrote in a Friday tweet. He added that Yaccarino “will focus primarily on business operations" while Musk will stay closely connected to product design and new technology.

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Before that announcement, NBCUniversal said Friday that Yaccarino would step down immediately as chairwoman for global advertising and partnerships.

Musk, who bought Twitter last fall and has been running it since, has long insisted that he would step down as top executive at the company, which is now called X Corp.

Few expect Musk to remove himself from the decision making process at Twitter, however.

“While he’s stepping back from the CEO title, Musk is far from likely to step back from calling the product shots,” said Mike Proulx, research director at Forrester Research.

Yaccarino, with deep roots in the advertising industry, could be a linchpin in Twitter's future.

Luring advertisers is critical for Musk and Twitter after many fled in the early months after his takeover of the social media platform, fearing harm to their brands in the ensuing chaos. Musk said in late April that advertisers had returned, but provided no details.

Mark DiMassimo, founder and creative chief of ad agency DiGo, said Yaccarino successfully integrated and digitized ad sales at Comcast and NBC — and that her track record of cross-selling ads across different platforms could appeal to Musk as he tries to transform Twitter from a social media company to a bigger media platform.

Yaccarino worked at NBCUniversal for nearly 12 years — with her team generating more than $100 billion in ad sales since 2011, her company bio notes.

According to LinkedIn, Yaccarino previously served as NBC’s chair for advertising and client partnerships and as president of cable entertainment and digital advertising sales. Prior to her time with NBC, Yaccarino worked at global entertainment company Turner for almost two decades.

Last month, Yaccarino interviewed Musk on a Miami stage last month in front of hundreds of advertisers.

“If anyone can translate the Musk vision into advantages for marketers she’ll be able to do it,” DiMassimo said Friday, prior to Musk’s confirmation. “Even though there’s skepticism and all marketers live in the ‘show me’ state right now with regard to Twitter, if in fact she does go to Twitter this is a powerfully reassuring move.”

Proulx added that advertising is not the only challenge that Twitter’s new CEO will face – after all, Musk has “fundamentally altered” Twitter both as a product and a community, arguably “for the worse.”

Musk’s tenure at Twitter’s helm has been chaotic. He began his first day firing the company’s top executives, followed by roughly 80% of its staff, which has meant that Twitter has far fewer engineers to ensure that the site is running smoothly and far fewer content moderators to help rid it of hate speech, animal cruelty and graphic violence.

He’s upended the platform’s verification system and has scaled back safeguards against the spread of misinformation. It’s been some of these changes — along with Musk’s own penchant for spreading misinformation and engaging with prominent conspiracy theorists and far-right figures — that analysts say soured many advertisers on the platform.

Regaining advertisers’ trust will require stabilizing Twitter and ensuring that key product decisions are made thoughtfully and deliberately and not, as Musk has often been known to do, on the spur of the moment, inspired by a fan’s tweet or a passing thought. Industry insiders describe Yaccarino as a marketer’s leader with key advertising expertise, but if she’s to succeed on the business side, she’ll need Musk’s buy-in on the product side.

Musk's policy changes have led to divisions among users, some who have left the platform. There was more of that on Friday, but from some of Musk's most boisterous supporters.

Some focused on Yaccarino’s affliation with The World Economic Forum, an organization that Musk has previously criticized — suggesting that this could signal movement away from Musk’s “2.0 values” for Twitter. On Thursday, however, Musk said that the platform's “commitment to open source transparency and accepting a wide range of viewpoints remains unchanged.”

Others have also questioned Yaccarino's political leanings. In 2018, Donald Trump appointed Yaccarino to serve on his Council on Sports Fitness and Nutrition for two years. As Ad Council chair in 2021 and 2022, she also worked with the Biden White House to help create a coronavirus vaccination campaign that reached over 200 million Americans.

Last November, Musk was questioned in court about how he splits his time among Tesla and his other companies, including SpaceX and Twitter. Musk had to testify in the trial in Delaware’s Court of Chancery over a shareholder’s challenge to his potentially $55 billion compensation plan as CEO of the electric car company.

Musk said he never intended to be CEO of Tesla, and that he didn’t want to be chief executive of any other companies either, preferring to see himself as an engineer. Musk also said at the time that he expected an organizational restructuring of Twitter to be completed in the next week or so. It’s been nearly six months since he said that.

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Bantering with Twitter followers late last year, Musk expressed pessimism about the prospects for a new CEO, saying that person “must like pain a lot” to run a company that “has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy.”

“No one wants the job who can actually keep Twitter alive. There is no successor,” Musk tweeted at the time.

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AP Business Writers Mae Anderson and Matt O’Brien contributed to this report.

Merkin Baller

Where are all the Twitter File marks fan boys now? 

https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-appears-limit-bellingcat-after-elon-musk-called-it-psyop-2023-5

Pretty wild: 

Halifax2TheMax

Elongitaint and the new level of professionalism at Twatter, as it relates to sharing violent images via Twatter’s platform.

Recent cutbacks in content moderation teams at companies such as Twitter have also accelerated the spread of disturbing videos, experts said.

“The fact that very graphic images from the shooting in Texas showed up on Twitter is more likely to be content moderation failure than an explicit policy,” said Vivian Schiller, executive director of Aspen Digital and former president of NPR and head of news at Twitter.

Twitter’s media office responded to an emailed request for comment with only a poop emoji, the company’s now-standard response to press inquiries.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/14/violence-graphic-images-texas/