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Oh then we get the rest of the story.....
So there was an exploit that was fixed...

then let's level set here...these were 49 2 minute clips. Who would want to watch that?
Then do you know what kind of effort it would take to stitch together 49 2 minute clips of a movie? Do you know the software and processing time it would take to do that?
Oh gosh are you the quality that would work for him? Splitting and joining files takes seconds, a trick old as anything to split files. And if you want to keep it to Twitter compatible you can do it with a one liner ;)

Bash:
# Something like

$ ffmpeg -i jamezr_home_movie.mp4 -c copy -map 0 --segment_time 00:02:00 -f segment jamezr%03d.mp4

I'll leave it to you to figure out the tweet upload bot ;)
 
Oh then we get the rest of the story.....
So there was an exploit that was fixed...

then let's level set here...these were 49 2 minute clips. Who would want to watch that?
Then do you know what kind of effort it would take to stitch together 49 2 minute clips of a movie? Do you know the software and processing time it would take to do that?
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That is pretty different!
 
Oh gosh are you the quality that would work for him? Splitting and joining files takes seconds, a trick old as anything to split files. And if you want to keep it to Twitter compatible you can do it with a one liner ;)

Bash:
# Something like

$ ffmpeg -i jamezr_home_movie.mp4 -c copy -map 0 --segment_time 00:02:00 -f segment jamezr%03d.mp4

I'll leave it to you to figure out the tweet upload bot ;)
oh gosh...you are the quality that was let go! But i did not know it was so easy to stitch together 49 clips of a movie into one movie.
 
My perspective on the whole Twitter deal: From what Musk is doing, I expect he is trimming off all the fat and is going to overhaul Twitter, similar to how Steve Jobs overhauled Apple when he came back. Rough at first but successful later on. Lean and mean instead of fat and lazy.

And from everything I am reading about the employees responses and actions etc., this appears to be the case. Twitter employees don't seem to be used to working hard for the greater good of the company, like they do at Apple and most startups.
 
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I get trimming the fat. But this cow does not have enough beef to remove.

Won't I don't get, and no one can explain how they will make money.

They have lost 1/2 of their ad buys.
Next year's ad buy is already rumored to be atrocious.
Blue check is a joke and will NOT generate revenue of any difference.

But all that is nothing compared to the fact that he is letting on antisemites, racists, and QAnon types and is vocal about the "culture war" and "woke this and that".

Enron is his own worst enemy.

Ad buys will not come back when he has turned this into Twitter "8 bucks a month" Chan of the Gabbiest type.


So when 97% of their revenue comes from ads.

And they do not come back.

And he has between 1-1.5 BILLION in debt coming due in 11 months...

Enron-Tanic. He's the captain of.

titanic_sinking_tw.jpg


The best part is this.

NO one is talking about the minute a system gets online that has the tools needed (verification done, write, can scale) then people will FLY (yes, pun intended) to the new system. There is no loyalty.

If a name brand like Facebook does this with Insta-tweet or whatever. Who can provide confidence in their system.

He will be holding a 44 billion dollar bag in his hand.
 
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Either it will go boom or it will be gold. My money is on Musk. And many here will be eating their words. (Not that I'm a fan, but he's not one blow away $44B)

Well you are right. It will go boom or be gold.

How though?

'cause Musk is not answer.

Especially unlike in space x or Tesssla, he had adults keeping him somewhat in line, by all accounts and his own Tweets, he has no one doing that at Twitter. What we are seeing here is the real him.

Not the carefully curated public relations Musk.

 
Well you are right. It will go boom or be gold.

How though?

'cause Musk is not answer.

Especially unlike in space x or Tesssla, he had adults keeping him somewhat in line, by all accounts and his own Tweets, he has no one doing that at Twitter. What we are seeing here is the real him.

Not the carefully curated public relations Musk.

I don't know...except many seem to know better than Musk. The guy who pulled together a $44B investment package. Unless Musk is masquerading here, I don't see any MR posters pulling together a $44B package.
 
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I don't know...except many seem to know better than Musk. The guy who pulled together a $44B investment package. Unless Musk is masquerading here, I don't see any MR posters pulling together a $44B package.

He "pulled it together" because he had to pull it together.

He opened his month 7 months ago and said "I can do this better" here is $54 a share.

I'll buy twitter. I don't need a "house inspection"

Stocks took a dip.

He realized he was in trouble.

blamed the bots

Got sued.

Cried like a whiner that Twitter lied to him even though he did not want a "home inspection"

Got sued and was going to be taken to court.

Delaware Corp Court does not mess around. Critics said he was going to lose AND divulge tons of discovery.

"Pulled it together" by asking this other billionaire friends to give him the money to do it.

Ended the court case.

Tried to make it look like this was his plan a long.

Now this mess.

If I had as many billionaire friends as he does I could have totally "pulled it off". (and I would not have invited back racists, QAnon and Antisemites so he got me there!)

So again,

it seems we are 42 pages deep into this discussion and the best reason I can find for Twitter not turning into a 44 Billion dollar bonfire of his vanity is:

'cause Musk
 
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He "pulled it together" because he had to pull it together.

He opened his month 7 months ago and said "I can do this better" here is $54 a share.

I'll buy twitter. I don't need a "house inspection"

Stocks took a dip.

He realized he was in trouble.

blamed the bots

Got sued.

Cried like a whiner that Twitter lied to him even though he did not want a "home inspection"

Got sued and was going to be taken to court.

Delaware Corp Court does not mess around. Critics said he was going to lose AND divulge tons of discovery.

"Pulled it together" by asking this other billionaire friends to give him the money to do it.

Ended the court case.

Tried to make it look like this was his plan a long.

Now this mess.

If I had as many billionaire friends as he does I could have totally "pulled it off". (and I would not have invited back racists, QAnon and Antisemites so he got me there!)

So again,

it seems we are 42 pages deep into this discussion and the best reason I can find for Twitter not turning into a 44 Billion dollar bonfire of his vanity is:

'cause Musk
The proof will be in the pudding. What he does and where he goes is anybody's guess. I don't really care. I don't use twitter, nor am I a shareholder, nor do I sit on the board.
 
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agreed, him losing 50% of his advertisers did not take long at all though.

You keep repeating this line and I see no support for it. Do you have support for it?

In the Twitter of old spreaders of such inaccuracies might have found their account suspended for misinformation or disinformation.

What I see support for is that Twitter lost 50 of their top 100 advertisers but not 50% of all advertisers.

While those 50 advertisers account for < $1B or ~20% ad revenue we will see what they do in the long term. Just like NBC left for 48 hours.
 
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My perspective on the whole Twitter deal: From what Musk is doing, I expect he is trimming off all the fat and is going to overhaul Twitter, similar to how Steve Jobs overhauled Apple when he came back.
Except for the most part, NOT similar to how Steve Jobs overhauled Apple. Mainly because Steve Jobs, having led Apple previously and understanding how computers and software are made at a deep level was very precise and accurate with his trimming. He in no way gutted, say, the PR and security focused employees. The only parallel here is “people were let go.” Beyond that, the “how” is wildly different. :) There’s far more different than similar.
 
They don’t even have the people available to check if the users broke the law. :)

Yup. FTC consent degree? what's that? LOL!

And remember this:

Meanwhile, Musk’s personal lawyer is telling people, ‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.’​



Life (and the FTC) have a way of catching up to you Enron.
 
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He "pulled it together" because he had to pull it together.

He opened his month 7 months ago and said "I can do this better" here is $54 a share.

I'll buy twitter. I don't need a "house inspection"

Stocks took a dip.

He realized he was in trouble.

blamed the bots

Got sued.

Cried like a whiner that Twitter lied to him even though he did not want a "home inspection"

Got sued and was going to be taken to court.

Delaware Corp Court does not mess around. Critics said he was going to lose AND divulge tons of discovery.

"Pulled it together" by asking this other billionaire friends to give him the money to do it.
not sure I would really say Elon is in trouble here, at least not financially. From what I can see even if he paid the $44 billion himself and lost it all he would still be the richest man in the world. Next guy down has an estimated net worth of $138 billion, Elon is at $191 billion (taken from google). He could literally lose $44 billion dollars and still be the richest man in the world which is crazy!
 
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I’d like to take this moment to remind everyone that the VAST MAJORITY of business people who are the most successful/wealthy today still have the right hands they were born with. And, in case you haven’t noticed, the current CEO of Twitter ALSO still has the right hand he was born with.

I’m seeing a LOT of parallels here. /s
 
I don't know...except many seem to know better than Musk. The guy who pulled together a $44B investment package. Unless Musk is masquerading here, I don't see any MR posters pulling together a $44B package.
Anybody on MR, including myself who was worth over $200B could pull together $44B investment package to buy Twitter, but even more to the point, almost anybody on MR wouldn't decide to overpay for Twitter by Billions so the price would be $54.20 per share and you could snigger (as Elcon likes to do) about the price having Weed Day in it. Also virtually anyone on MR would actually just pay for the company, instead of saddling it with and additional $13 Billion in debt, which makes it becoming profitable a much harder task, as they need to pay over $1B annually in payments for the debt.
-Tig
 
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