"Ardent followers." Very diplomatic way of saying it. I'd go with overzealous lickspittles.
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"Ardent followers." Very diplomatic way of saying it. I'd go with overzealous lickspittles.
Worst comment I’ve ever seen on MR bar none sadly.
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And considering Elon's constant mentions about getting rid of fake accounts, I have to assume that will be the case.
Kinda don’t care about Elon one way or another. But that little exchange with AOC was hilarious.
This is the only good thing Elon has done so far imo. Not a fan of him at all but I'm glad he's opening verification finally since the original system was stupid cause randoms got it even though they had like 3k followers but almost-to-no users interacting with their tweets.
Guys doing more in one week than the entire staff did in the last 5 years
Elon is worth (supposedly) something north of 100 billion dollars. I don’t know if I buy the “Elon’s in real trouble now” stories that I’ve seen about him buying Twitter but IF they are true then paying a billion is cheaper than being seen as incompetent as a businessman. And I doubt that he would end up needing to pay that much by himself anyway. People that rich generally don’t put themselves as buyer, they just control the holding company that is the listed buyer. Doesn’t mean he loses nothing but it does reduce his liability.
The $1B breakup fee was in case the purchase was stopped by a government regulatory agency or something of that nature; not because Musk got cold feet.
If he loses money he’s not going to lose nearly close to $44B.
None of it good. Hitler did many things. I do not view him as a model for my life.
He may get many of his assets liquidated. It would be cool if Tesla and SpaceX were owned by a decent person.
Musk responded to a tweet from her "personal" account (@AOC) which is different than her official government account (@RepAOC).
When you take out loans of other people's money and the company implodes, those people wind up owning your own companies.
Make the CEO of Lotus the owner of Tesla just to see the original Roadster produced again.
Well, being verified is often a time consuming process (you're ensuring the person making the account is THE Arnold Schwarzenegger not someone claiming to be Arnold Schwarzenegger) so there seem to be questions about how he could do this while also cutting half the workforce? Automating it down to "this person clicked a verification link in their email address" doesn't really mean they're verified in the way it does now because a scammer can use a throwaway email address. The check mark is for the benefit of twitter. It creates a valuable experience for other twitter users to know they're interacting with the real Arnold Schwarzenegger If Schwarzenegger opts not to be on twitter and a scammer impersonates him, scams other twitter users-- that's a problem for twitter, not Schwarzenegger. It will reduce the value of company and drive users away. Fewer users means fewer people they can serve ads to.
It's not like Lotus is not making their own two seat electric sports car. It' will have a 0 to 200 in half the time it takes to sneeze.
