Dude havent you come to terms with the fact that hes competent? Twitter never went down after firing all those engineers?

The vibe on Twitter has become totally noxious since bluechecks started getting promoted under every single tweet. I'm still on there because of inertia, but from my feed there are plenty of people like me waiting to jump ship to bluesky. Twitter's brand is toxic now. Maybe they'll make up the difference with users coming over from Parler or whatever, but I doubt it.

Whats the definition of down?

Twitter has had many outages; the objective stability of the webpage is worse after acquisition than before.

By his own admission the value of Twitter has dropped 50%, and he has suggested bankruptcy is on the table. This will be a case study of bad management in textbooks for decades to come.

Twitter never went down because of those engineers and the great work they did. Elon has been making all kinds of shit up as he goes. He is not an engineer, and never will be one. He can be a great businessman (and at times -- he has made great decisions for businesses.) and be a terrible engineer. He seems to be stuck on the latter even being possible.

What's your criteria for Elon's decisions being bad? I'm curious.

He is chief engineer of SpaceX. The rockets seem pretty good to me.

He has the title 'Chief Engineer' at SpaceX, a company which he owns.

Turns out, when you own the company, you can make the company call you whatever will best serve your ego.

Yes but the rockets will only go up if the engineering is actually good.

So either he's a really good engineer or he's really good at hiring them, which means he's a really good engineer.

It's comical how much people hate this guy. He's a smart person you don't like, why is that so hard to accept.

> either he's a really good engineer or he's really good at hiring them, which means he's a really good engineer.

Or someone else at SpaceX is good at hiring engineers? Is your conclusion that everyone who owns a successful engineering company is a really good engineer?

Still have to be good at hiring those people that are good at hiring. And giving them the funding, culture and vision to succeed.

I'm not saying Elon succeeds by accident. I think he's a very smart man who despite that, manages to think he's smarter than he is.

I think that his unique talents are not in engineering but sales. He's great at selling his vision to some people who will then bleed for him. He's great at fundraising and convince people to fund his ventures.

I don't think he's an engineering prodigy like Carmack or Wozniak. I don't think he's a product genius like Jobs. I think he's a fantastic salesman who finds bets that will pay off if you can keep at them for long enough, and uses his fundraising talents to keep his companies afloat until they do pay off.

Yeah, his ideas are so smart! The hyperloop, the boring company, rocket mass transportation, etc He is a fraud. A very successful fraud.

Oh yes, also CTO Twitter, chief neuroscientist Neuralink, chief researcher OpenAI, a regular Renaissance man. Never studied STEM.

> Never studied STEM.

He has a physics degree.

He bought a physics diploma with a large donation years after dropping out.

Turning Twitter into pay-to-play will look “competent” in the beginning, but we’re not sure how it’ll work in the long run.

Lately, it looks like lower level (non-twitter blue) users have no incentive to come up with new content. If they do, high level users (twitter blue) will regurgitate it to their audience and it’ll be amplified to the top. Before, the playing field was level.

Yes it did.

Elon’s hourly clown show? What are you watching?

Well that might be a strategy if it wasn't his own money he was burning.