Pretty much this. If anything the world would benefit Twitter ending along with the rest of "social" media.
Edit. Going by all the hyper responses it looks like Twitter has come here.
He honestly feels like Kim Kardashian but for tech bros but maybe much worse. I hate this idea that you have to worship people just because they are rich. I think people like luxury-porn which I always found really creepy. Even him having a super young pop-star wife feels like wish fulfillment for some people. Tho the way he talks about Grimes being not real was so creepy and is huge red flags for abuse.
In all his hubris(and dumbness) he must've signed something or did something for the former heads of Twitter to threaten to sue if he didnt follow through...honestly, he should've just shut the fuck up and kept doing what he normally does- which is NOTHING. Jack [Dorsey] had this dumbass paying more than it was worth(I thought he was a savvy businessman?) and now he feels like he has to re-coup that money, on a platform that was FREE for everyone.
It's a miracle that Twitter survived a decade; but it's assured a death now that he's at the helm..
Dude. If you have smart enough financial advisors & investors around you, you can be dumber than a box of rocks and still be a billionaire.
Also- the guy is not gonna see this post and come and wife you...stop butt kissing.
Despite the fact that it has happened, people can criticize "what a dumb-ass move it was" to splurge 44B on a site and start dismantling what made it work. Sure, Twitter may have been losing money slowly, but it was still an effective enough site that a lot of society used it...I'm not just talking about the average John Q Public who had an account- a lot of companies used it to find people to hire, companies used it to shape their online identities and for influence, a lot of news media used it because there's a whole generation that stopped reading newspapers, magazines, and watching the news on TV; Twitter more or less has helped shape and define a whole decade...before Musk bought it, I was pretty sure that Twitter could survive at least until the end of the decade- now, it'll be lucky if it survives 2023.
THIS. Google's doing it, Zuckerfuck is doing it...Elon wants in on the action.
As the saying goes: It's far easier to con a person than it is to convince that person they've been conned.
Ah, it's far more slimy. They are telling the truth when they say they don't sell the very thorough pile of data they have on you.
They broadcast it.
They sell the ad spots instead. Companies check that data that's being sent out, and if you're their target they buy the ad spots on your webpage or Instagram or FaceBook or whatever you're looking at.
Since they're planning on ending the protocols that make the ad blocking and tracker blocking extensions possible get ready for the internet becoming even more of an ad-delivery system than it already is. Expect Tapas and Webtoon to do it as well if they aren't already. It's ridiculously profitable and if that's part of Musk Rat's plan it wouldn't be surprising.
May it be the spark that burns it all down.
i imagine there's a crap ton of layers to all the data mining, sharing and selling im just too damn tired to stress it anymore 乁( •_• )ㄏ not that i dont care but i genuinely lack the energy
also the billionaire worship is a pain to witness coz all if not most of them simply gained a good chunk of their money from generational wealth whether by owned(or stolen tbh) land and property, parents businesses, in em's case specifically daddy's emeral mine (which opens a whole other can of worms if were to truly dig into that mess) so its like... you can stop bootlicking they're just gonna keep abusing the system and running over (in their eyes I'd imagine) "pawns" like us
also quickly spinning back to the site "dying" thing (and im so sorry i keep using this reply but its convenient) i think this tweet kinda sums up my feelings on it as well and some of the replies about its accessibility elements stands out especially
https://twitter.com/sabattons/status/1593631193529974784?s=20&t=O1XyZIXEknakq15h3byiUw9
sigh
cracks knuckles
Everyone needs to calm down and realize just because you don't like him (Elon) doesn't make him dumb, stupid, ignorant, and anything else. He is a businessman.
No, he's dumb as a box of rocks when it comes to running a business. He's not a good business man and never has been. He did not found Paypal and he did not found Tesla. Who signs a contract for 44 billion that says you MUST purchase the company and then cries about it when he has buyer's remorse like a week later? A good businessman would have read the contract in full before signing off on it, especially for something that's costing him nearly a quarter of his wealth. Advertisers are pulling out, users are leaving in droves for Mastodon and Tumblr, employees get fried ON Twitter for simply criticizing him, he fired critical IT and engineering employees, and Twitter Blue was a disaster. You can't even deny that last one. You clearly think you're a capitalist, so I'll ask you how you think something like that was a good thing when it caused Eli Lily to literally lose billions due to an account impersonating them?
Are you running multiple fortune 500 companies?
No, and neither is he. Send Elon to Mars for a year prior to him purging 75% of staff and Twitter would still continue to function. The workers run the company, he just consumes the profit and pretends he did something whenever he says he "has an idea"
He also has very smart people working for him. He doesn't design rockets, but his staff which is smart, does
Correct, I'm glad we agree he doesn't run these companies.
You can't be dumb and be a billionaire, it's impossible
Sure you can! Get lucky and inherit your wealth from your parents! You'll never have to worry about investments failing when you're a trust-fund baby or your parents own an emerald empire 
And speaking of lucky winnings-
understand 95% of people that win the lottery are flat broke in 9 years, no matter how much they won.
I'm not sure this is the win you think it is, but most people don't win billions from the lottery. If you gave someone a billion from lottery winnings after taxes, I can guarantee you they will not be flat broke in their lifetime and will have enough money leftover for their children to not have to work at all in their lifetimes. Based on the earlier portion of your post, I assume you understand how much money this is and thus why this is the case.
Twitter will not go away. This is just a bunch of people annoyed that twitter is changing.
Look, I'm a 10+ year software engineer with a specialization in cybersec. My masters is in computer engineering. I work on a VERY large system, and I know enterprise web software engineering in and out. The biggest hinderance to any company that writes this type of software is losing people with extensive production knowledge. These are your 5+ year employees who know the system in and out and know how to maintain it when issues come up - and they come up DAILY. You as a user don't know about them, because these guys are so experienced at maintaining Twitter that they fix the issues silently without the majority of the userbase ever experiencing a blip. You can bring in literally the world's top engineers to stand in for these people, and they still wouldn't be able to replace them. Twitter is now rumored to have around 800 employees, down from approx 8000. Do you REALLY think they're going to be able to hold this ship together? From the cybersec side, this is going to be a dumpster fire. I guarantee you black hats have been happily chugging away since Elon took over, more so than they were before, and its only a matter of time they actually breach without a good cybersec team in place to impede them. People are already reporting 2FA is broken. (seriously, change your twitter password ASAP if you're sharing it on other sites. You shouldn't be doing that anyway, but I know most people reading this are.) Twitter as a company will continue to exist (who am I kidding, he's gonna rename it and say he founded it ), but I am VERY skeptical the system as we know it will continue to function for long, or it will become so unusable that people will just leave the platform all together.
You goal is to be a successful artist, not be a political mouthpiece against someone who doesn't even know you exist.
Stop bootlicking him then. He doesn't know you exist.
Probably ought not hold your breath or bet the mortgage on Twitter dying. It might. It might not. But a lot of people seem to be just getting their jollies by predicting its failure. Some seem to be pleased to show their dislike for Musk and/or twitter in that way. Time will tell. Until then,all the sound & fury signify nothing.
Paying to have your name slapped on someone else's work technically counts as "doing", that is true.
There probably wouldn't be anything like Tesla or a SpaceX without him or someone just like him. That's kinda how big enterprises work. Same things happened with railroads & airlines & god knows how many things. The dreamers & finance leaders get the laurels or the blames.
This kinda implies that Tesla and Space X actually are good for the world, which they are not.
He didn't invent Tesla. He was just the majority shareholder who bought out the company, kicked out the actual chief executive-- Martin Eberhard-- and paid some millions on the NDA. Tesla was doing fine without him. Now the company is embroiled in a bunch of work violations for treating it worker like shit under policies directly tied to his leadership. Tesla has not made a profit except for the years where it sells carbon credit; it produces overpriced electric cars that only dominates the market because of the number of fueling stations available; its stock is failing and is considered massively overvalued by most market analysis.
The only thing that he's been successful in is getting the electric cars into mainstream market under the guise of environmental sustainability, but Tesla sells carbon credit and the way it produces cars is actually terrible for the environment. If he really wants to support the environment, he would've invested in public transportation, encouraged better policies making (he has done the opposite), shut up about bitcoin, and supported indigenous communities.
Space X has done nothing that Nasa couldnt, except now it's privatized. They've taken billions in government contract while not doing shit for scientific research.
Whatever minuscule, if any, good him and his companies have done are incidentals to profit making.
The guy's just a rich kid who throws money at idiotic ideas and hope that they stick; 99% of them have not. You're talking about a guy who wants to build underground tunnels network for cars when train exists, thinks that COVID will completely end by 2022 when it has killed more people this year than in 2021 and 2020 in some countries, and says that he'll get people to colonize mars by 2023. You're talking about a guy who was fired as Xcom and Papal ceo for being bad at his job, a guy who says he's “a free speech absolutist” while firing employees for speaking out and supporting rhetorics that violently silence marginalized people. He's been sued multiple times for his illegal business practices. He literally could solve world hunger with his money but instead he bought twitter-- nothing can excuse how morally bankrupt that is.
I agree that battery powered cars are a horror for the environment as well as for the overseas workers such as the miners & smelters. They're not really green except maybe in the sense of cash.
Space X has done nothing that Nasa hasn't, except now it's privatized. They've taken billions in government contract while not doing shit for scientific research.
NASA wanted spacelift to go private. They were getting out of the launch business & even some of space exploration in favor of earth sciences. SpaceX is primarily (as I see it) a spacelift business vs a pure science lab thing like NASA has been.
He literally could solve world hunger with his money
How? That's a claim tossed around a lot, but I think it vastly underestimates the amount of money needed by world hunger for more than a few days. Consider that Musk's fortune isn't enough to run the US govt for more than about a month. The size of his fortune, as big as it is, pales in comparison to national & world sized problems.