Comment on Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’

• Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could have been both, twitter gets messed with enough to drive off normal people and musk gets to rebuild it from the ground up afterwards using what ever is left or they knew musk would be poison to twitter and let him just have fun with it

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “I’m sorry but i just sacrificed a very expensive social media just to get some quet time”

    I have no idea why the idea of twitter being the meat-filled pumpkin they threw into Musk’s enclosure to keep him busy cracks me up so hard, it just does

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• napoleonsdumbcousin@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Big chunk of the funding is from the Saudis though - and they have a very vested interest in trashing twitter.

  This does not address any of the points above though. The Saudis could have just bought it for half the money and closed the doors.

  It’s also entirely possible the truth is somewhere in between - people who knew he couldn’t manage his way out a paper bag working ego boy into buying twitter and ketting the inevitable happen. He’s not exactly hard to manipulate.

  Manipulate into doing what? Buying twitter? I think it is very likely that he just attempted market manipulation and failed. Now he is trying to make the best out of the situation and transform Twitter into the company he actually wants. Except he is absolutely incompetent. I don’t see where anybody manipulated him into doing anything. Everything that happened seems very much like him.

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