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When he first came up with the idea for paid twitter he legit thought he would get millions and millions of sign ups. He thought he was going to rake in so much quick and easy cash. Obviously he was wrong but it’s totally in his character to double down and be convinced that this time it will totally work. I mean, he’s a genius, it has to work.

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PupBiru@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
the whole plan stinks of a man that doesn’t understand the value of money to 99% of humans

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- stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Not only the value of money; he doesn’t understand Twitter. He’s never been on the side of Twitter that used to joke “Twitter is free!” whenever funny stuff happened on the site. There are whole parts of Twitter he’s never seen, and he thinks his very narrow use case of Twitter is THE way Twitter is used.
  
  When the running joke used to be “Twitter is free,” no one is going to want to pay for it.
  
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  - squiblet@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    He surely doesn't understand the value of $20, like how Bill Gates guessed that a banana was probably $10.
    
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  - Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    He fundamentally doesn’t understand what Twitter is/was or does. That’s why this is like watching someone enter a race but keep tripping on their own shoelaces.
    
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    stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Nope. Like, he thinks there’s a huge bot problem on Twitter because he has to deal with bots because he’s famous and talks about crypto. Most Twitter users never deal much with bots so it’s not the big concern. But he does, so he thinks blaming bots for all Twitter’s problems is effective.
    
    I bet he was shocked there was pushback for his API changes when it impacted accounts like the NY subway system, who used it to announce schedule delays. I bet I t never occurred to him people actually used Twitter for something other than shitposting.
    
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Niello@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Dude thinks he's a genius (he's not). This is the problem when you only look at the outcome of something without factoring what caused it (lots of luck including birth lottery and the effort and talent of people around him in this case).

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