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I think that's a vocal minority. The majority doesn't care, and two equally small, vocal minority groups love and hate him, respectively

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For what I see from Twitter, I'd say Twitter is the vocal minority.

I've seen the exact opposite, everyone either doesn't care (specifically non-US citizens don't care) and people in the US are cheering him on. There was tremendous support for him when he reinstated the babylon bee and they haven't even posted anything yet

I can tell you that New Zealand twitter cares a great deal and our main TV news media is covering it

Around one-in-five U.S. adults (23%) say they use Twitter. The share of Americans who use the platform has remained consistent over the past several years and is similar to the share who use Snapchat (25%) and WhatsApp (23%). But a much larger share of U.S. adults use YouTube (81%), Facebook (69%) and Instagram (40%).

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/05/05/10-facts-ab...

Considering all the attention the acquisition received I was surprised to read that more people don't use Twitter. The idea that what gets posted on Twitter automatically becomes what the average Joe talks about is probably overstated.

It's indirect. Many of the people who influence what the average Joe talks about use Twitter, and few of them are self-aware enough to recognize Twitter is a fishbowl at a cafe by the ocean.

In hackernews and reddit and my small RL sampling the haters outnumber the lovers about 3 to 1 atm.

And about 1 in 4 or so care.

I'd like to see a poll on hacker news for this

In my friend group there were a handful of specific blunders that significantly changed the tide of opinion against him, all around the 2018 timeframe. "Pedo guy" was the biggest one mostly because of how stupid and unnecessary it was and his unwillingness to back down, but the "taking Tesla private for $420/share" drama was a close second.

The increasingly pubic tawdriness of his love life was a factor too; prior to then he'd done a good job cultivating an image of a family man.

Specifically on Reddit I've never seen anybody support him anywhere near what one could consider "faboyism". They have this funny feedback loop where there's a (usually negative, or only marginally relevant) Musk post on the front page at least once a week, and the comments are all about how they hate Musk and how people need to stop giving him attention. Somehow everybody is completely oblivious to the fact that these posts are the only ones that most people ever see.

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