I know most of y'all have fully abandoned Twitter, but good lord if he actually does this (which is not guaranteed mind you) a LOT of vulnerable people are going to get hurt.
He's literally doing this to appease fashoids.
Probably because people block bluechecks en masse to make the site slightly more bearable
I think it's a) because so many people block him and b) to pump metrics with harassment campaign "engagement"
Destroying the app you overpaid for to own the libs
Bargain priced Lib here. I’d have been owned for way less than $44B.
To be fair, I can't think of any way to improve my life with 44 billion dollars either.
the harm is intentional.
Furthermore at this point, everyone who continues to use and advertise on his platform is complicit in enabling his bullshit.
If there’s a Nazi at the table with 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you've got a table with 11 Nazis.
This is not going to happen because both the App Store and Google Play Store require a block feature to have your app in their storefront
It’s a part of elon’s master plan of losing advertisers, access to the app stores, losing users, etc all to….
… listen the man’s a genius, who knows whats going on in there
This is not going to happen because
Coinflip if he does it fast enough and angrily enough to push it live before his underlings can beg him to reconsider
He has to be destroying Twitter on purpose, there's absolutely no way a person could make this many perfectly idiotic decisions in a row unless it was deliberate.
What I don't know is why you'd buy a social media platform for $44b and deliberately speed-run it into oblivion, but I'm sure the reasons are not good.
he's a failchild that's failed upwards his entire life and is surrounded by yes men. he's remarkably stupid.
bUT hE a gEniUs
He's really not clever or competent. From what i understand the only reason tesla and space-x can function is that they've developed proceedures for keeping him distracted and steering him away from things he can break, and even that is a constant challenge. With twitter there was no time to learn how to manage him, he just smashed through the wall, shit on the rug, and set the drapes on fire.
Don't forget truckloads of state subsidies as well.
That's what I was wondering, because he's obviously not a smart person but things like SpaceX seem to basically function, and if he ran those the same as Twitter it'd literally be headlines like "SpaceX fires all its rockets directly into the ground for no reason" lol
In my job, my clients are usually executives or VPs. They do dumb shit like this all the time. A lot of these people get to these levels of leadership for reasons that have very little to do with their competence, and they have big egos and don't listen to anyone, even when you put lots of evidence in front of them that their ideas are fucking stupid.
This right here. Steve Jobs is literally dead because of this. He rode this to the grave. He had a very very treatable form of cancer, but literally believed he could formulate his own cure using fruit juice, until he really started dying and it was too late to cure.
And he was 100x the CEO musk is. Still an absolute narcissistic and psychopathic monster, and literal crime boss, but y'know,
Sure this man, gentle and of noble blood, could not be a fool! Elsewise why would the Lord God Almighty bestow upon him the natural right of rulership?
Twitter's bread and butter was always that it was a platform that was attractive to celebrities and politicians and have them a direct line of communication to their fans. The celebrity accounts then drew in a large userbase.
If there's one thing famous people doesn't want it is to get an uncensored feed of what people think of them. They want to have the sort of engagements that promotes the kind of personal brand they are building for themselves. If you're a big pop star you don't want to have people posting creepy sex stuff at you, if you're a queer icon you don't want a deluge of homophobia and if you're building a brand as a very serious politician you don't want a feed full of people explaining why your bullshit doesn't add up. The block function is a core feature to keep Twitter's most business-critical users on the platform. Removing it will be idiotic from a business perspective.
Critical support to Elon Musk in his quest to destroy Twitter.
I’ve jokingly said it before, but you never know, it might be true… Melon is actually a covert op lefty destroying fascist comms channels from within.
I'm going to go out on a leg here and guess he's going to keep the feature for himself and/or paid bootlickers.
He already appeared in my feed despite being blocked. That's part of the reason I quit, I could see how he was turning the platform into his own personal soapbox.
Engagement numbers must be tanking.
It's suddenly going to be a lot more important that he decimated the support team.
Also RIP to Kamiya-San's account. 
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I mean fuck, imagine gamergate but there's not even a block button. Your only recourse as a target would be deactivate or suspend.
Mastodon take my energy
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