Damn⊠He really is brilliantly stupid. Heâs like⊠King of the idiots. The one and only true Edgelord. Itâs like highlander, heâs the only one.
I know this is somewhat selfâserving, but what if everyone literally started calling him THE Edgelord? How fucking funny would it be to see journalists calling him that? How many of us would it take?
DeSantisâs campaign has been plauged by technical issues, as Twitter Spaces cannot support the same kind of streaming traffic that Twitch / Youtube / etc. etc. can support. This means that DeSantisâs big online launch party was ruined due to reliance upon Twitter.
This is closer to what I predict and expect to happen. Twitterâs bones are solid, Twitter was (emphasis on WAS) one of the best run technology stacks ever back in 2020 or 2019. It will take a lot of effort before that falls apart. Any âlegacyâ code is likely good.
But you know whatâs likely to break? New features, new loadouts, and random changes that the new ignorant staff cannot manage. Its one thing to maintain a good website, its a totally different thing to make new features. (Especially when the feature is to get rid of blue checkmarks, I mean to turn old blue-checkmarks into grey checkmarks, I mean allow a $8/month payment for blue checkmarks, I mean to delete old blue-checkmarks from people who havenât moved onto the payment scheme, I meanâŠ)
Technology is about change. Eventually, Twitter cannot change and get updated. Its already happened this year, Twitter Spaces is proof of that. All the new crap this year has fallen flat on its face.
Iâm sure theyâre smart, but its well recognized that theyâre ignorant.
Ex: there were large scale complaints about being the last person remaining from a team of ~20 and being forced to take care of the servers anyway. They were certainly fine when they were part of a team of 20, but when 19/20 people leave, whoever is left over is best described as âignorantâ.
Iâm sure theyâre doing the best that they can, but thereâs no way one person can know everything that the 19-other-people knew. They are literally incapable of learning all the server details from here on out, because the other 19 people have left the company and are likely not returning phone calls (aka: happily employed elsewhere by now).
Iâm not using ignorant as an âinsultâ, but as a fact of life. When 80% of staff leaves in a month, thereâs no way the remaining 20% of that staff can pickup all the pieces. Knowledge will be lost. Hell, in IT, knowledge is lost even under the best of circumstances. People get called in for projects they did 5 to 10 years ago for advice on a regular basis (documentation is nice, but thereâs no replacement to just having the programmer who designed the system on speed-dial, somewhere in the firm⊠to call them when something bad happens). You lose that when 80% of staff is fired and/or quits, doubly-so when they do so before writing all the documents that their replacements will need.
I dunnoâ, theyâre already having problems keeping tweets syncâd across servers. Several times have I seen a 404 for a tweet that someone else is staring at.
Thatâs a basic server scaling issue. Showing up in Twitter production. Iâm not so sure theyâve even kept the old bones intact.
Well, new stuff includes the new Datacenter that Elon Musk personally moved all those servers into. Even if it was legacy old servers that were working, theyâre effectively new given the amount of changes that could occur at a new datacenter.
This thingâs probably going to become the social platform of the International Democracy Union and be supported by all the billionaire assholes of the planet.
But that will involve more TSLA stock fire sales (as thatâs literally what he did the last time he needed to pay Twitterâs bills, his ânet worthâ is mostly unrealized gains from his shares) and he will face more backlash for that from Tesla investors. His house of cards will collapse quicker the more he resorts to that as thereâs a limit to how long Tesla investors can stay patient with him treating them as his personal ATM.
While true, we are only talking about $2 to $3 Billion in losses a year.
How long do you think itâd take before Elon truly felt that burn? Maybe 5+ years, right? Maybe longer.
This is a man who conjured up $20+ Billion in cash last year to buy Twitter after all. He can take a few $2 or $3 Billion losses for a while.
Now SpaceX is also losing money and Tesla also looks like itâs lost a ton of reputation. So thatâs whatâs gonna hurt Elon. But Twitter nonsense is unfortunately a rounding error in all of this.
Iâm reasonably certain his goal with buying Twitter was just to be able to control the political narrative around the 2024 election for the usual wingnut purposes. Other than that Iâd doubt he actually gives a shit what happens to the platform. Heâll drop it like a hot potato the instant it ceases to be useful to him and/or the GOP, and his sycophants will all be right behind him gushing at what a âgenius business ideaâ itâll have been for him to sell Twitter at a loss after running it into the ground by being a moron.
People are quick to forget that part of the situation, but I think youâre both right. There was the initial decision to buy which he didnât want to do until the alternative was worse for him, then there was his management of the company afterward. I think once the initial saleâs decision was made for him, he has been trying to destroy Twitter entirely for the left.
Iâve heard this theory before. Just bankrupt it fast, then the debt goes with the company⊠But the thing is, the loans are on his name. Twitter didnât ask money, and it might have itâs own debt for sure, but Elon has a âsmall countyâ sized debt to pay and I donât think he can really get rid of it
Others said he would be bailed out by the government. Not sure either of the candidates would agree to that (or the citizens of US)
Though X has still proven itself as the hub for fast-breaking news â as this weekendâs OpenAI drama proved â the nature of its business is still dependent on advertising, which makes up the majority of its revenue.
While brands generally understand the risk of running ads against user-generated content, they donât typically find themselves in a situation quite like this, she also points out.
But theyâre not accustomed to a platformâs owner amplifying misinformation and hate speech, and emboldening conspiracy theorists,â Enberg notes.
Twitterâs influence has always been larger than its user base and ad revenues, and while the platformâs cultural relevance has declined, Musk and X are still very much a major part of public conversation,â she adds.
Ahead of this, Xâs ad revenues were already forecast to decline by 54.4% from 2022 to 2023 â a sizable drop for the platform that Musk has now run for roughly one year so far.
Forbes recently reported that top advertising executives have been pressuring Yaccarino to resign, suggesting her own reputation is now at risk as a result of Muskâs actions.
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