At a press conference today, Musk was quoted as saying:
Look at me. Look at me. Please, God, I need people to be paying attention to me and validating me all the time. Ever since I fucked it up with my hot goth gf I’ve been an absolute mess of transparent attempts to remain relevant. I tried to gain your approval by doing what I guessed would be cool guy shit like going on stage with Dave Chappelle and yelling at you small people about how rich I am. I did the meme thing with the fake money and the fun monkey pictures. I spent billions evading your blocks on Twitter. I give up. You don’t have to love me. No one will ever love me. But I need you to always be looking at me.
Musk then produced an acoustic guitar and began to play a cover of Matchbox 20’s “Push”. According to reports, the entrepreneur who used his slave-generated wealth to build a private space program was on the verge of tears and within shouting distance of the key as he sang the line “Don’t just stand there/say nice things to me/cuz I’ve been cheated and I’ve been wronged”.
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I can’t get over the fact that this is the guy who was supposed to be some kind of tech genius.
It was a bunch of marketing hype all along, apparently. The more he’s revealed who he actually is, the less most people believe that he’s really good at much of anything besides hype and being pretentious. The past decade of fawning news articles about how he’s the smartest and most hard working person in the entire world is even more nauseating now, in retrospect.
I believe he’s only good at wasting money and destroying livelihoods. With 200 billion he should’ve fucked off somewhere as he’s clearly not useful for anything. Even Zuckerberg and Bezos have their value.
He was good at publicity and being a front man… but now his deranged political obsessions have ruined that. I can’t imagine why someone would have enough FU money for 1000 people, but be so obsessed with forcing his political will on everyone that he doesn’t just fuck off and enjoy being rich. Drunk on power, I guess.
Charging users to use a web service that costs money to run isn’t exactly rocket science, it’s how the web should work.
At some point you got to start believing that Musk is still pissed they forced him to but twitter, so now he’s trying his best to destroy it.
You see, I always thought that he bought Twitter so that he could have a parallel equivalent to that thing where the president can send a message to every cell phone instantly. You’ll notice that one of the first things he did was make himself block-proof. He still shows up in your feed, even if you blocked him. That was actually what caused me to leave Twitter, though his later decisions have validated that. He’s even floated the idea of getting rid of blocks altogether. He’s slowly making Twitter unpalatable to anyone who isn’t part of his white supremacist genius entrepreneur cult.
What a wonderful idea!
Please DO
good, let it die
I will pay you money to do it, Elon.
Just fucking do it.
Maybe then other media will finally stop reporting shit like
“Person Z said Y on X (formerly Twitter).”Stop feeding this guy.
Yeah he just says this shit to stay in the news cycle.
This is a great idea. Do it!
Getting press and attention is basically all he’s good at. No wonder he loves trump so much… they’re basically the same person. He did parlay that trait into making Tesla more of a success.The downfall is when he actually tries to do anything besides get attention in the press.
He said creating such a system is “the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots
Lol the fucking “bots” again.
The thing is that the bots aren’t going to lower by much when he does that, since the majority of bots on there are his own.
I would pay as much as I need to. I can’t live without twitter!!! ^/s
Do you remember when I said I would kill Twitter last? I lied.
Granted he’s backing into this stupidly, and I can’t imagine he’ll do this right.
But the basic idea of transitioning away from the ad model toward a user funded model is a good move.
I’d go with something where people can create accounts and follow others for free. Then posting rights cost $5 per year. With an additional $5 for every 5000 followers you get.
That way X can monotize people with hundreds of thousands and millions of followers. At that level, accounts become businesses on their own. A few promotional posts would easily pay for the account.
