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Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by admin@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 39 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Brilliant business strategy, you just wait!! 😂

[–] agegamon@beehaw.org 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Literally only the best strategies here! I mean lets recap:

Threaten to buy company then double down and agree in writing as a bullying tactic: check
Roll a nat 1 on your intimidation check: check
Be forced to follow through when called out on being mentally an 8 yo by the feds: check
Fire critical employees, like basically all of them: check
Yoink verification away from public news orgs: check
Let anyone pay to be "legit," even if they're parodying you: check
Rename twitter to the stupidest thing imagined since head-on (apply directly to the forehead): check
Gut content moderation policies but also stop enforcing regardless: check
Post own hate content and racism to the platform: check
"Accidentally" run ads next to hate content: check
Be told your sign sucks and to take it down by city: check (lol)
Become a living embodiment of "big yikes" energy while telling aforementioned advertisers to "go fuck yourselves" on live TV: check
Hallucinate about making x into a libertarian wechat alternative: check
Tank the value of the company while blaming literally anyone else for your failures: mission in progress, #1 priority

10/10 solid buy, gonna grab some long calls rn. The koch boys and rupert murderjock must be holding back a tsunami of jealousy by now 🤣

[–] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You left out "throttle diaster information accounts when the disaster is happening" (Japan earthquake).

[–] agegamon@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Check!

Also, I forgot all the tomfuckery he pulled with starlink in Ukraine, cutting off access and the like.

It's truly a testament to how much shit this guy has done that we forget so much of it.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

See! This guy gets it!! 😍

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He’s a genius playing 8D chess. You just don’t understand. By this time next week, Twitter will be the only website in the world and Lonnie will laugh at you from mars. Just watch!

[–] renard_roux@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Insert Bond Villain Plot™ where he's secretly buying all the EMP-hardened server parks in the world, and it's getting ready to orbital-nuke everything except Shitter servers back to the stone age.

And of course he will brick every phone and computer everywhere, so nobody will be able to use Shitter, but God damnit, it will be the only site left!

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty certain I know how Musk would respond to this. It's inappropriate for Beehaw.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Something something woke mind virus something

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

Or some bs like I didn't make my money by being nice.