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Musk says Twitter to soon allow calls, encrypted messaging

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7 pointsmfiguiere6 comments

He says a lot of things and never ships. We have to very be stupid to cite his promises as news at this point. Do we never learn? Just to remind you, he "fully expected" to have robotaxies in 2017, and put humans on Mars by 2020. He blocked fast speed train projects and took public money to build a Hyperloop he never built. And so on, the list goes on forever.

In the case of Twitter, he joined in late October last year talking about the "everything app", talking about how soon we'll be able to make payment transactions, monetize ads in replies, see detailed information how and why we're shadowbanned, compete with YouTube, make Twitter an "optimized giant neural network" and, oh, save humanity from the "woke mind virus" because "nothing else matters if this is not solved".

He says literally whatever. What he shipped so far is few underbaked features started before he bought the company, and wrecked the verification system in a failed attempt to monetize Twitter (by reports he lost 89% of ad revenue which was 5 billion a year, to earn about 600k Blue subscribers for revenue of less than 50 million a year, do the math).

Watch what he ships, not what he says.

How about from the horse's mouth instead?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1656084243905384449

This is very interesting news!

When he said he'll put humans on Mars by 2020 that was even more interesting news, what happened, and why are we not learning? You may think that was a long shot, but it doesn't matter if it's a long or short shot with him, he speaks before he even tells his engineers about what they're supposedly to "ship soon".

The list of Twitter features he promised when he bought the company is long and he has zero successes so far.

So what? We know his timelines are sometimes exaggerated, but the intention and direction are what's important. The first thing he said indeed already is present in the app, as are several other changes, so you're wrong about zero successes. I'm glad he intends to do E2E encryption on DMs, and I don't care much if the timeline slips. All the previous Twitter owners had a relative eternity to do that, and they didn't.

Ooh, now isn't your naivety adorable here. Intent and direction is what really matters! Like, say, when you get in a cab, and he's just sitting still, but he really intends to drive, and he's looking longingly in the right direction where you wanna go. Meanwhile the taximeter is counting up... And you missed your flight. But the intent and direction matter.

If "we'll do it eventually" was a legitimate excuse for not shipping, then theft would be legal. You know, "I'll return it eventually." You go to the bank, take a loan and then you never pay back. But not to worry, you intend to pay it. Eventually.

It's like the way Twitter pays rent right now. "I'll pay it, eventually." Oddly, he doesn't mind having an office for free right now, though.

If it's unclear, there's no distinction at all between a scammer and an entrepreneur, except the latter ships when they say, and the former doesn't.

Long term we're all dead. Time matters.

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As for me being wrong about zero successes, can you be slightly more specific. What is that "first thing" he promised? The blue checks? The blue checks that helped drive away most advertisers, losing him billions, in order to earn less than 50 mil/year in subscription fees?

That's the "success" you want me to count?

Thanks for the laugh.

With great successes like that, X Corp. will be bankrupt before year's end.

"With great successes like that, X Corp. will be bankrupt before year's end."

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