BigRedBuster Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 18 hours ago, Archy1221 said: LOL…person with Activist as his twitter bio telling us the founder of PayPal, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX isn’t smart enough to run a business. Well....Elon is obviously a very smart person. However, he is proving he's totally inept in running a company like Twitter. 1 Link to comment
Archy1221 Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 23 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said: Well....Elon is obviously a very smart person. However, he is proving he's totally inept in running a company like Twitter. LOL….he’s owned it for what, less then a week?? 1 Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted November 2, 2022 Share Posted November 2, 2022 13 minutes ago, Archy1221 said: LOL….he’s owned it for what, less then a week?? His actions since then speak volumes. 2 Link to comment
nic Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 I would place my bets on Musk. Ads being paused. Sounds like a woke rebellion against the new owner. Result is layoffs although i think he planned that all along. Of course if Twitter tanks, it's not the end of world. I don't really care about Musks wallet and those rich folks just declare bankruptcy or whatever and bounce back. Lots of workers hurt, though. They can all get hired by the Twitter replacement app company and the US will have divided platforms and mirror the rest of the country. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/tech/twitter-advertisers/index.html 1 1 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Is it a "woke rebellion" if advertisers decide that the owner is volatile and the changes at the company put their name and reputation at risk? Or is it a company trying to limit the impact to their bottom line until they know how things are going to go? If I was a marketer at a co that advertises there I'd pull my funding based on the shear number of departing profiles. Their potential business impact is decreasing everytime someone leaves the platform. 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 2 hours ago, nic said: Ads being paused. Sounds like a woke rebellion against the new owner. These are mega corporations, and what does any of it have to do with prejudice? Please stop using catch phrases instead of putting your thoughts into words that make sense. 1 1 Link to comment
funhusker Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 4 hours ago, nic said: I would place my bets on Musk. Ads being paused. Sounds like a woke rebellion against the new owner. Result is layoffs although i think he planned that all along. Of course if Twitter tanks, it's not the end of world. I don't really care about Musks wallet and those rich folks just declare bankruptcy or whatever and bounce back. Lots of workers hurt, though. They can all get hired by the Twitter replacement app company and the US will have divided platforms and mirror the rest of the country. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/04/tech/twitter-advertisers/index.html Weren’t you trying to point out hypocrisy of the left just yesterday about changing positions on Twitter? A month or so ago, you were claiming Twitter was equivalent to the public square. Now it’s just a replaceable business you don’t care about? 1 2 Link to comment
nic Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 10 minutes ago, funhusker said: Weren’t you trying to point out hypocrisy of the left just yesterday about changing positions on Twitter? A month or so ago, you were claiming Twitter was equivalent to the public square. Now it’s just a replaceable business you don’t care about? It was a day ago and I would still argue it is…and it can fail. There are other public squares. Something will take its place. Why is that hypocrisy if I am not worried about the outcome? If companies want to pull ads, so be it. It may be that companies think their add money is better spent elsewhere. I honestly do not know who is pulling ads and why. I thought the woke rebellion comment was funny. It might be the excuse used if Twitter tanks. 2 Link to comment
Lorewarn Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 On 11/3/2022 at 2:37 PM, nic said: Newspapers were part of free speech back in the day. This wasn't posted in this thread but figured it's worth highlighting anyways. Newspapers have nothing to do with free speech and never have. 1 1 Link to comment
Born N Bled Red Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Lorewarn said: This wasn't posted in this thread but figured it's worth highlighting anyways. Newspapers have nothing to do with free speech and never have. Huh... Inego Montoya or Cooper eating Ice Cream? I'm so torn as to which "you don't have a damn clue what you're talking about" meme to use that I'm just going to ask you to change your username to John Snow. 1 Link to comment
funhusker Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 6 hours ago, nic said: It was a day ago and I would still argue it is…and it can fail. There are other public squares. Something will take its place. Why is that hypocrisy if I am not worried about the outcome? If companies want to pull ads, so be it. It may be that companies think their add money is better spent elsewhere. I honestly do not know who is pulling ads and why. I thought the woke rebellion comment was funny. It might be the excuse used if Twitter tanks. Twitter is a business just like you admitted. They will, as they’ve always done, control their content how they see fit. Nice to finally see folks realize this. It’s not censorship; never was. 1 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 7 hours ago, nic said: It was a day ago and I would still argue it is…and it can fail. There are other public squares. Something will take its place. Why is that hypocrisy if I am not worried about the outcome? If companies want to pull ads, so be it. It may be that companies think their add money is better spent elsewhere. I honestly do not know who is pulling ads and why. I thought the woke rebellion comment was funny. It might be the excuse used if Twitter tanks. Apologies I guess if I didn't read sarcasm in your initial post pointing out that it was flailing due to the woke liberal mob cancelling advertisers who remained. And yes I think ELON MUSK and any of the folks who felt they were censored because their threats against individuals and groups and dangerous untruths will use it as the excuse WHEN Twitter fails after he took ownership. But really it's due to his business decisions and poor planning and lack of forecasting. If he didn't think that advertisers might not want their name and product below a Kanye tweet talking about how his jewish doctor wanted to off him or one where he boldly claims that slavery was a choice and slaves were treated well that really has nothing to do with censoring. Interestingly enough, in the last few days if you look - the censoring going on relative to tweets that are critical of Musk and others in his world is huge. Look at responses to his tweets sometime ... it will show as have 42 replies but when you click to view you can only see 4. Now, what do you think about Nike and the Nets and how they're dealing with Kyrie? Cancel culture or business decision? 1 Link to comment
nic Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 12 hours ago, NM11046 said: Apologies I guess if I didn't read sarcasm in your initial post pointing out that it was flailing due to the woke liberal mob cancelling advertisers who remained. And yes I think ELON MUSK and any of the folks who felt they were censored because their threats against individuals and groups and dangerous untruths will use it as the excuse WHEN Twitter fails after he took ownership. But really it's due to his business decisions and poor planning and lack of forecasting. If he didn't think that advertisers might not want their name and product below a Kanye tweet talking about how his jewish doctor wanted to off him or one where he boldly claims that slavery was a choice and slaves were treated well that really has nothing to do with censoring. Interestingly enough, in the last few days if you look - the censoring going on relative to tweets that are critical of Musk and others in his world is huge. Look at responses to his tweets sometime ... it will show as have 42 replies but when you click to view you can only see 4. Now, what do you think about Nike and the Nets and how they're dealing with Kyrie? Cancel culture or business decision? I have not been following the Kylie story much. I know he got suspended for 5 games for failing to apologize properly for anti-Semitic remarks. That’s about all. I don’t follow pro sports much, is he a great player? If so it’s a bad business decision to bench him. I guess he might be mis-representing his organization. Have fans been calling for him to get benched or let go and the organization responded to that? I don’t know. what surprises me more is the number of famous folks posting anti-Semitic comments, recently. Link to comment
commando Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 Valeri Bertinelli changed her blue check mark name to elon musk on twitter. it used to be that the blue check mark verified that it was actually you on the account. now for $8 you too can be another blue check mark elon musk on twitter 1 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted November 6, 2022 Share Posted November 6, 2022 9 minutes ago, commando said: Valeri Bertinelli changed her blue check mark name to elon musk on twitter. it used to be that the blue check mark verified that it was actually you on the account. now for $8 you too can be another blue check mark elon musk on twitter What shes' posting under his name is awesome. Sorta proves his plan is stupid but she's using her power for good! 1 Link to comment
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