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My girlfriend has a theory that he's trying to destroy the platform deliberately. I disagreed with her until he renamed it to X lol
Just today there was a great comment by @Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works on why this does not make any sense.
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/4855307
Big chunk of the funding is from the Saudis though - and they have a very vested interest in trashing twitter.
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.
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
"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
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.
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.
Oh yeah, neither of us were assuming he was intelligent- just a flailing asshole with a grudge. But you're probably right.
I don’t think he meant to. He’s just an idiot.
Right wing control of Twitter was always my hypothesis, since, as people have pointed out, Twitter gave regular people access to people with influence. Destroying Twitter destroys that access, but it was more valuable as a tool to manufacture consent, like most media.
to right wingers, failure is good as success
think about it, trump is a godlike business man despite failing numerous times at all his businesses. he loses the election people still think he won. caught with nuclear codes giving them to enemy intelligence? it was probably a librul framing him.
if x goes under people will say it's part of musk's master plan
yeah that seems the most plausible explanation to me at this point.
Been saying that for a while now too. The people bankrolling him; Saudi Arabia and Russia, have a vested interest in seeing Twitter burn after the Arab Spring organized around it, and Ukraine found so much support on the platform. The thing is, he can't directly run it into the ground without lawsuits so he's doing it piece by piece.