He thinks he is a humorous person and is actually a funny person.
He's corny and has bad hair plugs.
I find it telling all the hourly dock workers I interact with think he's a genius and those with actual tech talent roll their eyes.
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He's corny and has bad hair plugs.
I find it telling all the hourly dock workers I interact with think he's a genius and those with actual tech talent roll their eyes.
Paywall past 400 characters and force you to subscribe to a tweeter, like substack or any news website.
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That’s been dead for a long time. Tweets get daisy chained together all the time.
Who mentioned Steve? Not everyone buying an iPhone thinks Jobs was the second coming of Jesus. 😂
He's neither. In 1901 Carnegie's wealth was over $350 Billion dollars in 2022 money, representing 2.1% of US GDP at the time. Elon is worth less than $100 Billion and ~0.4% of US GDP.
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Given the second largest investor after Elon was Saudi Arabia, I'd be shocked if that was not the eventual plan.
Wow, I guess Twitter just moved to Macrumors? Pretty humorous the amount of whining in here.
This is a good thing really, having to read thread number 18 of 100 is annoying.
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Or he’s looking to innovate, a la every other one of the industries he entered into.
How is removing the key innovation of Twitter to go back to what existed before it innovation?
You might as well rename it to "Wordpress". This guy is as clueless as they come.
Who is going to read all of that? Defeats the purpose of being a quick read.
This just replaces the current method of a thread of 20-30 tweets in a row when someone is posting a long thing. People can still do normal short tweets.
I fail to see the issue here.
If this is a reaction to the popularity of "long read" threads on Twitter, then, imo, they're making a big mistake.
The reason those work and are so popular is because the long content is broken down into bitesized chunks. Chunks where it's easy for people to share and respond to the particular statements the interest them. The format is also easier to quickly read on the go.
This is of course not necessarily a good thing. I'm personally quite anti "bitesized short-form headline" culture. I think it does a lot of damage.
But that ship has sailed, and Twitter is a key part of it!
I suspect 4000 word essays in a single tweet will struggle to get as much traction as the equivalent currently does broken into thread form. It's just not how people "use" content these days, especially on platforms like Twitter.
The reason those work and are so popular is because the long content is broken down into bitesized chunks. Chunks where it's easy for people to share and respond to the particular statements the interest them. The format is also easier to quickly read on the go.
This is of course not necessarily a good thing. I'm personally quite anti "bitesized short-form headline" culture. I think it does a lot of damage.
But that ship has sailed, and Twitter is a key part of it!
I suspect 4000 word essays in a single tweet will struggle to get as much traction as the equivalent currently does broken into thread form. It's just not how people "use" content these days, especially on platforms like Twitter.
I'd point out the Saudis owned that percentage of Twitter before Elon bought it. They merely held onto their existing shares and didn't take the buyout price at Elon's invitation. No one seemed to care that the Saudis owned a ton of Twitter stock when it was a public company. Why be concerned about it now? As long as Elon has 50.1% or more, he does what he wants.
But they already don't. They just make long winded threads stringing together a bunch of tweets.
What a timeline this one has become:
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but this is not an innovation. Quite the opposite. Long-form posting has been around since the birth of the web.
Twitter worked, fundamentally, because in a sea of blogs, newsletters, emails, etc., it was concise and powerful. The same way Tik Tok works, in part, because it’s short form. We already have youtube, endless steaming services, tv channels. Tik Tok works because it’s concise, short hits, and not like everyone else.
I'd argue that boiling an opinion down to a brief snippet is the opposite of healthy, nuanced, discussion.
Too many will take advantage of every allowable character.
If you want to filibuster run for Congress.