Twitter- The Musk era

[RedTide]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

I have never been on any social media, but strictly from a business marketing standpoint, naming a company Twitter, with a bird fluttering as their logo and calling the posts tweets is beyond brilliant.

BMW bought Rolls Royce, Audi bought Bentley and these car are still marketed in their iconic names despite BMW and Audi being status symbols.

This is a social media site. But I get that you are saying that you haven't been on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram. I was on Facebook for a year 10 years ago.

I kind of find it mind blowing how haphazard the transformation from Twitter to X has been. It really points out how nobody is saying "no" to Musk, or how he isn't listening to anyone else. The CEO job is such a token job in Twitter/X. But CEOs are super important and need to be paid 400 times the average worker right?

As a retired software programmer, after hearing about the "50 most salient lines of code" BS, and the "hard core sleeping on the floor" BS, and then hearing about Musk committing brand hara-kiri, it just makes me want to riot.

[Ike Bana]

Musk is living evidence that high intelligence can go hand in hand with stupidity, or more likely in musk's case, convenient lying. His whole internet platform issue is about "free speech". I suspect Musk knows good and goddamn well that Constitutional guarantees of free speech only apply to the infringement of free speech by the government.

There are no free speech guarantees anywhere else. Not in church, not in private households, not in public forums, not in the workplace, not in restaurants or taverns, and certainly not on internet social networking platforms, which are private businesses.

American conservatives know this as well and ignore it all the time. And every time Musk gets on his bully pulpit and says he is a champion of free speech...yeh...sure, asshole, right up until the time that somebody on your platform says something about you that really gets under your skin...and then we regularly find out what a phony-ass free speech champion you really are. Hypocrite wanker.

[Pio1980]

He could change it to "Blather" and call the postings "bleats".
This tone-deaf arrogant asshole is really literally going off the rails.

[finnbow]

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel owners’ service appointments...

Tesla employees had been instructed to thwart any customers complaining about poor driving range from bringing their vehicles in for service. Last summer, the company quietly created a “Diversion Team” in Las Vegas to cancel as many range-related appointments as possible.

The Austin, Texas-based electric carmaker deployed the team because its service centers were inundated with appointments from owners who had expected better performance based on the company’s advertised estimates and the projections displayed by the in-dash range meters of the cars themselves, according to several people familiar with the matter.

Inside the Nevada team’s office, some employees celebrated canceling service appointments by putting their phones on mute and striking a metal xylophone, triggering applause from coworkers who sometimes stood on desks. The team often closed hundreds of cases a week and staffers were tracked on their average number of diverted appointments per day.

Managers told the employees that they were saving Tesla about $1,000 for every canceled appointment, the people said.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates...tteries-range/

No wonder MAGAMorons are so fond of Musk. He's a rip-off artist just like Dear Leader.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by finnbow

No wonder MAGAMorons are so fond of Musk. He's a rip-off artist just like Dear Leader.

Yes sir.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by RedTide

This is a social media site. But I get that you are saying that you haven't been on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram. I was on Facebook for a year 10 years ago.

I kind of find it mind blowing how haphazard the transformation from Twitter to X has been. It really points out how nobody is saying "no" to Musk, or how he isn't listening to anyone else. The CEO job is such a token job in Twitter/X. But CEOs are super important and need to be paid 400 times the average worker right?

As a retired software programmer, after hearing about the "50 most salient lines of code" BS, and the "hard core sleeping on the floor" BS, and then hearing about Musk committing brand hara-kiri, it just makes me want to riot.

Yes, technically you are correct but I do not consider PC a social media site because most of us are long time AK members and though we are not personal friends, we seem to know each other well and most importantly have a lot of mutual respect for each other. And this is such a small group. I assume that in sites like FB, everyone is pretty much anonymous.

For instance quite a few AK members in the Bay know me, visited my home and my company, so if I BS about myself I am certain to get caught.

[RedTide]

Originally Posted by finnbow

No wonder MAGAMorons are so fond of Musk. He's a rip-off artist just like Dear Leader.

I was surprised to read in that article that the Tesla software doesn't even consider the outside temperature when calculating a range estimate.

Data collected in 2022 and 2023 from more than 8,000 Teslas by Recurrent, a Seattle-based EV analytics company, showed that the cars’ dashboard range meters didn’t change their estimates to reflect hot or cold outside temperatures, which can greatly reduce range.

Another recent study found that three Tesla models averaged 26% below their advertised ranges.

[Chicks]

At least 5 more years before I'll be needing a new vehicle. I'm following Toyota's tech with interest - if their claims about their solid-state battery bear fruit, they'll kill off Tesla.

[Rajoo]

Here is another doozy from Musk. He ripped off the handle @x from a Bay Area resident just because he can. No compensation whatsoever. Another crook and scumbag like the creature at MAL.

Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.

Elon Musk took his next big step in fully turning Twitter into X on Tuesday night: The @Twitter handle officially changed to @X.

But, what about its original owner? Mashable interviewed Gene X. Hwang, co-founder of event photo company Orange Photography and the person who originally registered the @x handle on the platform more than 16 years ago, earlier that same day. Hwang told us at the time that he had yet to hear from Musk and company, but was hoping they could work something out when the inevitable happened.

If he can pay $47 Billion, can't he be a bit of a gentleman about this instead of ripping it off, though legally he may be entitled?

I am still wondering what the new company will be called? Just X or X dot com. Or how about calling it the Snake Pit with the Gadson flag logo?

https://mashable.com/article/elon-mu...-original-user

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

If he can pay $47 Billion, can't he be a bit of a gentleman about this instead of ripping it off, though legally he may be entitled?

He can't because he's a hostile and malignant narcissist, just like the deranged orange shitgibbon. He is also a sociopathic grifter, who has managed to fuck over others in business deals, but managed to be not so blatant as the deranged orange shitgibbon. He tried to get away with it when he bought Twitter and then lied his ass off trying to get out of it, but for once the courts told the billionaire...you bought the ticket, you take the ride.