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DaveE wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 11:06 am They've had some profit recently, but not very much

Especially considering the amount of debt they and Musk are now saddled with (and the repayments on that alone)

Gavster wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 11:06 am You can't judge Musk's success or failure in Twitter after er... two weeks in the job most people are still onboarding at that point, while he's done more than the previous board had in two years. He might fail, however that's something we'll find out in a few months or even years. Finances gone down? Of course, there's been a lot of shocks and changes, what did you expect? If you think he should have increased revenue in 14 days then you have utterly unrealistic expectations of the business. You can't increase revenue on a lossmaking company by doing the same as before, you have to break things.

Most of you seem to have some kind of perfectionist stance, as if we should all spend years planning strategy, or only launch perfectly developed products, which would both be barriers to innovation. The success of an entrepreneur is most commonly determined not by how clever, rich, or skilled they are - the most skilled people in any field are usually employees - it's how quickly they can execute, make sales, and iterate.

drcarlos wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 10:44 am If people have no money due to conditions that have come about potentially due to information propagated because of policies of certain platforms they can't buy said products or services no matter how many adverts are served up to them and ad revenue is pulled.
It's like because of their policies they've bought about their own destruction which is funnier although quite depressing as the impact globally of said policies are huge.

He's not the messiah, he's a very silly boy.

tim wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 9:17 am I largely think the hate is because these same people wouldn't have the balls to do what he does publically with companies like this. I find it and him really fascinating.

Am also amused/bemused the hate has already started on those with Blue subs. I'd like to see an option to remove the tick, but keep the additional feature set.

Simon wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 7:47 am The problem is that he's now conflating a verified user tick with paying users. So there's nothing to stop me setting up as Boris Johnson, paying $8, getting a blue tick and going absolutely wild with complete bollox and insults. Lots will think I'm the genuine Boris.

He needs a different system for paying users and verified users, end of.

But then again, the guy is an absolute throbber so none of this is surprising.

Gavster wrote: Sun Nov 06, 2022 8:15 am They’re not going to remove the verification process, that would be ridiculous, you’ll still need to provide evidence of your identity, as you always have done.

tim wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 6:42 pm I'm amazed by all the experts on here who know what the problem is here, whilst simultaneously not being billionaires.