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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Yes 420 4.43%
No 69 0.73%
Goku 9001 94.85%
Total: 9490 votes
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William Bear
Oct 26, 2012

"That's what they all say!"

smackfu posted:

Will people actually quit Twitter like they say or will their addiction win?

I just quit. It's a shame, I was starting to like it.

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Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Sentient Data posted:

So has anyone at Twitter confirmed anything? Without a press statement from their C suite or legal team, this all reads as 100% bullshit

It does feel weird, but at the same time, in his current position would he be able to just start tweeting false statements and videos about him finally owning twitter without any action against him? I have no idea how any of this stuff works.

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011

Sentient Data posted:

So has anyone at Twitter confirmed anything? Without a press statement from their C suite or legal team, this all reads as 100% bullshit

It's a done deal. WSJ is reporting that banks have already started moving billions of dollars of cash needed to make closing the deal possible.

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011
The celebrations have begun.

https://twitter.com/WalterIsaacson/status/1585666128713371649

Main Paineframe
Oct 27, 2010

Sentient Data posted:

So has anyone at Twitter confirmed anything? Without a press statement from their C suite or legal team, this all reads as 100% bullshit

Twitter wouldn't be letting him walk the halls and terrorize the employees if they didn't have good reason to believe the sale wasn't about to go through. And if he hasn't finished buying Twitter by the end of tomorrow, the trial's back on, so bullshit posturing isn't really going to accomplish anything.

kdrudy
Sep 19, 2009

Harminoff posted:

Lol he gonna get sued day 1 for calling himself chief twit

Leo Laporte going after him?

Mr. Lobe
Feb 23, 2007

... Dry bones...


Main Paineframe posted:

Twitter wouldn't be letting him walk the halls and terrorize the employees if they didn't have good reason to believe the sale wasn't about to go through. And if he hasn't finished buying Twitter by the end of tomorrow, the trial's back on, so bullshit posturing isn't really going to accomplish anything.

As if that's stopped him before

ben shapino
Nov 22, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!
Hello everyone, I'm so glad you legally forced me to buy your company, this is definitely a thing I'm happy about

ilmucche
Mar 16, 2016

What did you say the strategy was?
can't wait for millions of twitter bots to aggressively start testing the limits of musky free speech

ben shapino
Nov 22, 2020
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!

ilmucche posted:

can't wait for millions of twitter bots to aggressively start testing the limits of musky free speech

I can't wait for humans to do it :getin:

big nipples big life
May 12, 2014

Has he given trump his account back yet?

TwoPair
Mar 28, 2010

Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta
Grimey Drawer

Serious_Cyclone posted:

https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1585350115736571904?s=20&t=8ek3UEZwkZ6qDZmuzDcw8A

Occupy Democrats wants you to know that everyone is talking about this new social media platform that just happens to be run by Occupy Democrats

lol ok guys I don't like him either but at least wait for him to put Trump back on before you act like it's the end of the world

boar guy
Jan 25, 2007


PLEASEDONTLETMEBEINTHE75%OFSTAFFYOU'RELAYINGOFFLORDELON

King Carnivore
Dec 17, 2007

Graveyard Disciple

boar guy posted:

PLEASEDONTLETMEBEINTHE75%OFSTAFFYOU'RELAYINGOFFLORDELON

gently caress, I’d be praying for the opposite. California unemployment is pretty sweet.

boar guy
Jan 25, 2007

King Carnivore posted:

gently caress, I’d be praying for the opposite. California unemployment is pretty sweet.

$2400 a month as the max doesn't go very far with gas at $6.30 a gallon, tbqh

bird with big dick
Oct 21, 2015

where you drivin when you dont have a job

boar guy
Jan 25, 2007

bird with big dick posted:

where you drivin when you dont have a job

okay $2400 a month doesn't go very far when your rent is > $3k per month, tbqh

the point is that CA unemployment isn't "sweet"

King Carnivore
Dec 17, 2007

Graveyard Disciple
Lol max Louisiana benefits is $247 a week

boar guy
Jan 25, 2007

King Carnivore posted:

Lol max Louisiana benefits is $247 a week

DID YOU KNOW SERVERS IN NEW YORK CITY MAKE NINETY THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR

what's a week of grocereries in LA, like fourteen bucks or something? there's this concept called relativity

Harminoff
Oct 24, 2005

👽

kdrudy posted:

Leo Laporte going after him?

He definitely should, and has gone after Twitter before for the same thing.

https://twitter.com/leolaporte/status/1585346385079316480?t=Wyz_jYvEtBPqVBtCMCXe-g&s=19

kdrudy
Sep 19, 2009

Harminoff posted:

He definitely should, and has gone after Twitter before for the same thing.

https://twitter.com/leolaporte/status/1585346385079316480?t=Wyz_jYvEtBPqVBtCMCXe-g&s=19

Leo is an old pervert but I'll take him over Elon.

captainOrbital
Jan 23, 2003

Wrathchild!
💢🧒
show him the door

Wistful of Dollars
Aug 25, 2009

Musk is such a sad wiener man

mikemil828
May 15, 2008

A man who has said too much

big nipples big life posted:

Has he given trump his account back yet?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump

Not yet

Philthy
Jan 28, 2003

Pillbug
Looks like he's firing everyone already.

Countdown until he gets the 8chan and kiwifarms treatment, I guess.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...




How's Elon stand on Trump these days, anyway? I don't know if he's mad after being discarded on a whim, or if he wants to get back into the club and giving Donnie his tweets back might just do it.

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
e^ did you miss the Musk birdshit of him posting that, Musk Donnie , and Ye were like the three musketeers? TRUTH, X, AND YE

why would those places do bad things to Musk?

PhazonLink fucked around with this message at 02:58 on Oct 28, 2022

Rebel Blob
Mar 1, 2008

Extinction for our time

Philthy posted:

Looks like he's firing everyone already.
Reporting is that not only did Musk fire the CEO and CFO, but also had them immediately escorted out of Twitter's HQ.

Endorph
Jul 22, 2009

imo the funniest outcome is he doesnt reinstate trump's account because shareholders yelled at him enough

mikemil828
May 15, 2008

A man who has said too much

Rebel Blob posted:

Reporting is that not only did Musk fire the CEO and CFO, but also had them immediately escorted out of Twitter's HQ.

Wonder what kind of golden parachutes they had.

Nice Tuckpointing!
Nov 3, 2005


Of course he has to smoosh his rear end all over the countertop

Nice Tuckpointing! fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Oct 28, 2022

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

mikemil828 posted:

Wonder what kind of golden parachutes they had.

If Musk was even a tenth of the businessman he be pretended to be it would of been the robocop kind.

Unfortunately he's super lame. Dude can't even supervillain properly.

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week
Trump stands to make circa $300 million if Truth Social gets reverse-acquired by DWAC. He's not gonna come back to twitter right away.

The DWAC deal would need to fall through, or I guess mid-2023 if he's running for president and needs a bullhorn.


mikemil828 posted:

Wonder what kind of golden parachutes they had.

lmao the CEO gets $42 million

"oh please don't fire me brer musk!"

Wendigee
Jul 19, 2004

Endorph posted:

imo the funniest outcome is he doesnt reinstate trump's account because shareholders yelled at him enough

there are no share holders hes taking it private lolol

SpartanIvy
May 18, 2007
Hair Elf
If Musk unbans Trump then Musk will not be the center of attention on Twitter anymore. So I give it 50/50 odds on if Trump is unbanned or not.

King Carnivore
Dec 17, 2007

Graveyard Disciple
I could see it being a transactional thing with Musk giving Trump his tweets back in the expectation of him winning in 2024 in exchange for yet more government contracts for SpaceX and I dunno the contract for USPS vehicles being awarded to Tesla…

Beartaco
Apr 10, 2007

by sebmojo
But if people leave twitter they'd be letting all their posting enemies win (read: continue to use twitter.).

PITY BONER
Oct 18, 2021
"the future of civilization" --I hate the fact that all his dipshit sycophants and ball-clingers see him as somehow the leader in this sphere, because lord knows he didn't come up with it himself.

Someone recommended me to watch Thunderf00t's takedowns of Elon's shittery, and I had never heard of the channel. It's p good if you have some time to waste on this poo poo. If not, you're smarter than I am.

gently caress, I can't turn off the YouTube auto video thing. Just search the username.

Edit:

smackfu posted:

Will people actually quit Twitter like they say or will their addiction win?
I use Twitter to follow a bunch of web comics and snarky posters/topics (bitcoin, covid, games). I have no problem getting rid of it, even though I know I'll probably forget 90% of the comic artists I read and have nowhere else to get covid info from non-mainstream sources.

PITY BONER fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Oct 28, 2022

Beartaco
Apr 10, 2007

by sebmojo
Besides, you can't just give up on those integers. You fostered them through years of hard work.

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worm girl
Feb 12, 2022

Can you hear it too?

PITY BONER posted:

Someone recommended me to watch Thunderf00t's takedowns of Elon's shittery, and I had never heard of the channel. It's p good if you have some time to waste on this poo poo.

You may be unhappy to learn that that dude is a huge misogynist and islamophobe who rode to popularity on the gamergate/MRA wave of the mid 2010s. Yes it's weird that he's also anti-Trump and doesn't like Musk, but broken clocks and all.

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