Twitter New CEO
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Given his sense of humor I bet he hired an AI to be CEO.
The tweet reads:
> Excited to announce that I’ve a new CEO for X/Twitter. She will be starting in ~6 weeks!
I hope he hasn’t taken that bait…
It's not him kidding. Also his "humor", stolen memes aside, 9/10 times only used to mask unexpected turn of events behind the scenes (such as being sued about something he said, or something turning out really, really wrong).
That's what normal people do. This is, in fact, why when Musk posts a meme, that tweet gets thousand of retweets. Ever thought about how if "stolen meme" was an odd concept, then the retweet count would be 0?
Zooming in on both the twitter use case, and how most users of those platforms see meme ~= funny image or OC, a stolen meme is more akin to stealing a joke.
So "stolen memes" is a phrase that makes zero sense for the broader definition of the word meme, but makes complete sense for the more specific definition.
Also, the chairman reports to the board who report to the single shareholder (the corporate parent of X Corp which is X Holdings Corp) which reports ultimately to X Holding Corps shareholders which are…the same person as the CTO and Chairman of X Corp.
What else is there? Sounds like the new CEO may be a figurehead just to satisfy his previous "promise" to step down.
I think the idea that people had, especially Tesla stockholders, is that Musk would kind of step back from Twitter and re-focus on Tesla.
Long term this is not a winning strategy, but it might be the best way to minimize losses.
You mean just because he said that, explicitly, under oath, in the Tesla shareholder lawsuit that overlapped with the Twitter purchase?
How the media has fooled almost everyone here and has taken advantage of basic human psychology to sensationalize headlines and distractions to create hysteria to gather clickbait and eyeballs of its readers since they still rely heavily on getting their online news from Twitter.
[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...
The same figure Elon claimed was mostly bots?
Those who have experience with such projects predicted very accurately what will happen.
1) The basic service will mostly stay up one way or another. Because otherwise all is lost.
2) Many auxiliary services will start degrading or going away. For example, yesterday search autocomplete was disabled after it started autocompleting everything in obscene ways.
3) We'll experience more frequent outages and glitches (and we do).
4) His velocity will grind to a halt. Meaning, he can't ship new features at depth, only superficial crap, and things that were started long before he bought the company.
He's also deeply in red right now, after losing over half his ad revenue and the 600k or so blue checkmark subscribers are netting him about 1% of what he lost in ads.
I'm sure advertisers will love having their content next to animals being maimed and mutilated. Guess all those people who got laid off weren't doing much except preventing millions of users from seeing dogs being dismembered.