Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Twitter to Charge $20 a Month for Verified Accounts, Reports Suggest
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Well if you want to keep in touch with the "in" crowd you have to pay.
"“The Bloomberg report notes, for instance, that an unspecified “racist slur”—which we’re just going to go ahead and assume is the n-word, on account of seeing a lot of tweets where people very proudly shouted the n-word on Twitter this weekend—increased in usage by 1,300 percent after Musk’s acquisition of the service went through. Meanwhile, ivermectin—which Musk’s old pal Joe Rogan openly promoted, despite medical claims to the contrary, as an effective treatment for COVID-19—shot up by 2,900 percent, peaking at 358 mentions every five minutes. Oh, and antisemitism, too, with the Anti-Defamation League saying on Friday that it had identified a coordinated plan to spread antisemitic memes on the service.”
"“The Bloomberg report notes, for instance, that an unspecified “racist slur”—which we’re just going to go ahead and assume is the n-word, on account of seeing a lot of tweets where people very proudly shouted the n-word on Twitter this weekend—increased in usage by 1,300 percent after Musk’s acquisition of the service went through. Meanwhile, ivermectin—which Musk’s old pal Joe Rogan openly promoted, despite medical claims to the contrary, as an effective treatment for COVID-19—shot up by 2,900 percent, peaking at 358 mentions every five minutes. Oh, and antisemitism, too, with the Anti-Defamation League saying on Friday that it had identified a coordinated plan to spread antisemitic memes on the service.”
Why do other people's obsession matter here? What other people are obsessed about doesn't change objective facts. 2+2=4 no matter if you like it or hate it.
In other words, you write off your own credibility from the onset.
"I hate this guy so much I'm not going to bother looking into it" is quite petty
You argued against him building his business from nothing. So again, how much did he receive from the mine?Here are some links from five minutes of searching.
My mistake, he’s the child of an emerald mine millionaire and model.
How Elon Musk made his money - from emeralds to SpaceX and Tesla
The CEO has been the world’s richest man and played a key part in some of the most well-known technology companies around todaywww.independent.co.uk
The link says his wealth was built from business ventures. What part did the mines play in this, did the link say?
(I met a friend in college when we were living in low-cost private dormitory. After graduation he worked as a software engineer, living in a 1BR apartment, driving a 10 year old car. Never owned a TV. He was the most frugal of all my friends. It wasn't until I visited his home country that I learned his family owns a multi-generation continental industrial conglomerate)
He is most credited as being a part of the "Paypal mafia", which is a large group of people involved significantly from the beginning, not just the 5 initial cofounders.
Paypal was a merger of 2 companies, 1 of which he co-founded, so he was very much a part of its genesis.
When founder 1 left, company had sold 0 cars.Seems like the original founders had a lot to do with Tesla and how its vehicles operate.
Tesla Founders Talk About The Early Days Without Elon Musk Around
Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning talked to CNBC about Tesla’s early days, when Elon Musk was still not around, and the Master Plan they had conceived.insideevs.com
When founder 2 left, company had sold 50 cars. And Tesla started working was working on a new car (Model S), which sold 200k+. Now it's sold 2M+
So how much are they responsible for, ballpark guess?
Governments create subsidies, discounts, and other tax policies to incentivize activities that they want.Maybe Tesla paid the loans back, but I did also mention his other companies, this shows his companies have and continue to receive subsidies and tax breaks.
Elon Musk is speaking out against government subsidies. Here's a list of the billions of dollars his businesses have received.
Musk's companies benefited from subsidies as recently as April, when SpaceX won a $2.89 billion contract from NASA. Tesla got subsidies for years.www.businessinsider.com
People get tax deductions for having kids, because government wants you to have kids. You get IRA growth sheltered from capital gains, because they want you to save for retirement. First-time Homebuyer Act gives you credit against a house, because they want you to buy a house.
You buying a house and claiming those credits, is not an indictment of wrong doing or grounds for criticism, it's what the authorities want.
So when you file your taxes next year, how about not claiming any credit or deduction, no student loan payment deduction, no mortgage interest deduction, no deduction against charitable givings, giving your covid stimulus checks back, etc.... would that be better off than what you were doing before?Industry disrupting? Ok sure. Quality products? Not so much.
Consumer Reports Still Ranks Tesla Reliability 27th Out Of 28
Even though Tesla dominates CR's owner satisfaction surveys, it fares very poorly when it comes to reliability and dependability.
It’s also not a judgement of realized achievements, it’s literally a matter of fact if all of these people going off on their own to create their own rockets actually paid taxes, space exploration(and basically everything else government funding related) would be much better off than what they are currently doing.
I must see different stuff from the rest of the world cause I see very little political stuff on my twitter feed. Mostly just a few comic book people and lotsa tech (Mac/iOS) and local sports stuff. Where is the cesspool of which so many speak? Personal I think he bought it to burn it down cause he didn't like it.
My guess is Elon isn’t asking this in the blind. He’s probably looked at a list of possible (R&D) projects that are already at some stage of testing/development. And decided he liked this one.
I think some of the news stuff getting out is him trying to sound “tough”.
They said even if they only have a week and there was no background work done on this already, the devs. will figure out a solution. It may be duct-tape and wire to hold it together for launch.
Ive tried making new accounts and this hits me every time, signing up and following auto blocks people/me for "sus activity" and then they want a phone number to verify you're real and not on a block list
has nothing to do with the kind of accounts followed, they just dont like new users
Was just a numbers comparison. Not an argument/defending/disagreeing/agreeing thing.
Unless you are hired for one particular project, stated in your contract, that’s no reason to be fired. At least over here. You would have to get a „warning“ first but again, not a reason to get fired
Being verified is a double edged sword. If you say something wrong and you will be found on and off the web.
Last edited:
To be fair a high percentage of Rogan’s audience has the mange so it isn’t totally unwarranted.
Considering how spoiled the twitter employees are, even asking them to show to the office and work, is considered harsh measure.
or just the fact that he's the richest person on earth and he bought it simply because he can as a toy
I doubt the “fired” executives were planning to stay there. Most of them probably made a ton of money when Musk bought the company.
in vehicle racing they teach you to look where you want to go, because the vehicle follows your eyes.
people see what they want to see.
the people complaining about toxic political content... are probably themselves obsessed with toxic political content.
i follow music and economics, and i see music and economic content. crazy how algorithms work!
Who ever are the ones creating the new twitter accounts so they can spread hatred and racial slurs, I wonder if they had the EU in mind because the EU is the one part of the world that has threatened to come down hard on tech companies who do not deal with such things on their platforms with the threat of massive fines if they do not get their platform under control.
I wonder how long the EU will wait before it tells Musk to get a handle on the company he has bought and deal with the racial slurs and hatred appearing across it's platform or risk getting massive fines.
I wonder how long the EU will wait before it tells Musk to get a handle on the company he has bought and deal with the racial slurs and hatred appearing across it's platform or risk getting massive fines.
except a 7-day deadline for something like this with no notice doesn't really work in the real world either
I don't think he's saying everyone is anything. I don't agree about the good boss part. A good boss is one who knows who needs what kind of motivation. We used to have great bosses like that. Some employees just needed a kick in the ass once in a while, but some needed positive reinforcement, and they knew who was who.