I feel for the employees of Twitter. Years with a part time CEO whose time was dedicated elsewhere… now they’ll have a new part time owner whose time will be dedicated elsewhere and has a propensity to do weird things for the online lulz.
I think he's obsessed with his growing celebrity and Twitter is his megaphone.
(20 years ago I’d have said the same about watching “hours” of TV each week).
What does that have to do with my comment? I was just saying that he won't be hands-off as CEO of Twitter because he isn't hands-off even as a user.
Also, if using Twitter that much were "normal" then Twitter wouldn't be struggling as much as it is.
Even if it were normal, Musk is not a "normal" user (he gets armies of worshippers responding to every tweet) and he is the CEO of at least two other large companies, in addition to being a father of 7 children. He shouldn't even have time to eat or sleep, let alone troll people on Twitter on a regular basis.
> Also, if using Twitter that much were "normal" then Twitter wouldn't be struggling as much as it is.
I think they’re struggling financially (if you can call a multi billion dollar profit “struggling”) because the money people make from advertising on Twitter isn’t that related to how much any given person uses it, as they’re mostly competing with each other for a fixed quantity of disposable income. (Number of users seems too large to count as a struggle, not sure what else you might mean).
(That’s my guess, at least).
Also, If they didn't feel bad about creating value for Saudi royalty shareholders they probably won't feel bad about doing random stuff for the lulz
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/saudi-arabia-invests-2b-...
The effort has to go towards corporate regulations and culture change. Ending slavery within the US took a civil war and we're still decades away (at least) from fixing the legislative echoes and civil rights issues. Influencing China to end their own slavery and civil rights abuses isn't feasible at an individual level, except through correcting the allowed business behaviors and relationships by imposing laws and changing the culture. America is incentivizing human rights abuses under its current system.
We have an obligation to correct our behavior at the nation state level. Voting with wallets is no better than brooms on a beach. We need to vote for representatives that will fix the issue through international trade regulation.
As for what he'll do with Twitter.... I don't think anyone really knows how it will turn out. He's proven to be pretty self obsessed (canceling critic's Tesla orders), so maybe he'll use his power to knock down stuff he personally doesn't like (his private jet tracker). Or maybe his talk about free speech is real and he has good ideas on how to actually make social media a benefit to society. I think in his companies' software has been his weakest area (still thinking cameras are enough to do full self driving, which I think out of any project has most failed to materialize his promises?), so maybe he won't understand how to mold a fully software based company. However, maybe he'll just want Twitter to work the way he thinks Twitter should work as a user, knock down a bunch of unnecessary BS (eg the insistent push towards algorithm timeline) and force his hand on features people really want (eg, the ability to edit Tweets.)
She is certainty great, but Musk still has to (and wants to) spend a huge amount of time working on SpaceX.
The only thing i can think of being bad is micromanagement, and inadequate compensation. I dont know how twitter compensates their employees, but i'm sure it's not inadequate.