RIP Twitter

[VashTheStampede]

The internet is dying. Long live GW.

 

[A Slightly New Used Server]

That's real? Lol what an idiot. Kill off the ability to sit there and just scroll through for a while.

GW died, but is now undead. We good.

 

[Jawneh]

https://gyazo.com/4c7d41824512aba8175351851a973bd9

Amusing

 

[VashTheStampede]

Definitely a guy who knows what he's doing, I tell ya.

 

[A Slightly New Used Server]

https://gyazo.com/4c7d41824512aba8175351851a973bd9

Amusing

I have this well thought out plan about rate limits.

Wait, why can't I read any more? Better change that

Less than 2 hours. Perfect.

 

[Jawneh]

I mean, for a guy who does whatever he wants and generally doesn't give two shits about other peoples opinions about that, he's living his life.

 

[VashTheStampede]

If he didn't give a damn about what people think, he wouldn't have ended up having to buy twitter

 

[A Slightly New Used Server]

It's kind of funny. Buys Twitter because he feels voices are being censored.

Now he's limiting the number of voices that can be read per day.

 

[Mark]

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The internet is dying. Long live GW.

I don’t have shit to add to this since I’m not on Twatter, but don’t you love how all of these monolithic social media empires are collapsing year after year… yet GW would have still been around had the plug not been pulled.

 

[Nebulous]

My partner scrolls twitter all day long, hopefully this will curb that bad habit.

 

[Mark]

My partner scrolls twitter all day long, hopefully this will curb that bad habit.

There are always parental controls… they’re a pretty good tool if you like doing stuff for shits and giggles.

 

[Nebulous]

There are always parental controls… they’re a pretty good tool if you like doing stuff for shits and giggles.

Lol, I'd do that as a prank but not to be controlling

 

[Mark]

Lol, I'd do that as a prank but not to be controlling

Naturally, I don’t condone that kinda nonsense in relationships anyway. I strongly encourage shits and giggles, though. You don’t truly know your partner until you relentlessly torment them with pranks and jokes.

 

[The Eye in the Sky!]

Well, that would be a good way for me to unintentionally end my use of Twitter. I only use it for sports news and following old Simpsons writers

 

[canadaguy]

Seems like a backwards way to add value to paying for twitter

 

[Boots]

I used Twitter for maybe a month before deleting my account. I hate it.

 

[A Slightly New Used Server]

Seems like a backwards way to add value to paying for twitter

If the goal is to make everyone a paying customer, they're going to get there by making it so everyone who doesn't already pay leaves. 100% payment rate with 1% the original user base.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Unlike Reddit, I don't touch Twitter. Endless cancer on that site.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I for one welcome the end of social media sites... I don't think it will happen any time soon but meh. Long live forums! Though seriously I don't get why Elon thinks this is a great idea.

 

[A Slightly New Used Server]

I for one welcome the end of social media sites... I don't think it will happen any time soon but meh. Long live forums! Though seriously I don't get why Elon thinks this is a great idea.

I highlighted the word that's the problem here. He's not doing much of that with these decisions.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Best guess I'd say is that they're going broke.

 

[BigDaddy]

Well, that would be a good way for me to unintentionally end my use of Twitter. I only use it for sports news and following old Simpsons writers

Add this to the list of why we're the same person.

 

[Crystal]

GW died, but is now undead. We good.

 

[Jawneh]

https://gyazo.com/4d39b69fcc6bdaf34250acdedd4cee87

Maybe if we send Elon enough stupid memes that he can't stop reading we'll eventually reach infinity again.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

He doesn't get it at all.

 

[Jawneh]

I didn't check my sources on this, but supposedly Elon doesn't want to pay his Google Cloud bill of around 1 billion dollars. This rate limit nonsense doesn't seem too out there if that's true.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Does he understand he might get a more understanding response from people if he points that out from the start? Let everyone focus their hate on Google.

 

[A Slightly New Used Server]

Does he understand he might get a more understanding response from people if he points that out from the start? Let everyone focus their hate on Google.

No.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

For a successful businessman, he's kinda dumb.

 

[Kat]

For a successful businessman, he's kinda dumb.

He's successful because he was born rich. That's literally all it is. Obligatory:

 

[Mark]

He's successful because he was born rich. That's literally all it is. Obligatory:

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The only credit I will ever give him is that he makes ballsy investments. They say “fortune favors the brave” and all that nonsense… spending $40b on a social network that’s on the verge of a civil war isn’t “brave”… it’s ballsy because it’s arrogant, the cockiness you have to have to think YOU can flip things on that scale at that price point? Crazy. Regardless of how he got that rich, you gotta give credit to him for risking it when most people would just sit comfortably and let the peasants fight amongst themselves.

 

[Kat]

The only credit I will ever give him is that he makes ballsy investments. They say “fortune favors the brave” and all that nonsense… spending $40b on a social network that’s on the verge of a civil war isn’t “brave”… it’s ballsy because it’s arrogant, the cockiness you have to have to think YOU can flip things on that scale at that price point? Crazy. Regardless of how he got that rich, you gotta give credit to him for risking it when most people would just sit comfortably and let the peasants fight amongst themselves.

LOL. He didn't even want to buy it and tried to get out of it, but he was legally forced to because all his shit talk had financially messed with the company so much. Don't give him any credit, he's just a rich idiot who isn't even smart enough to know when to shut his mouth.

 

[Mark]

LOL. He didn't even want to buy it and tried to get out of it, but he was legally forced to because all his shit talk had financially messed with the company so much. Don't give him any credit, he's just a rich idiot who isn't even smart enough to know when to shut his mouth.

He tried to get out of it when he realized what came with it, I recall that. I’m referring to the simple fact that he even thought it was tangible to begin with. Call it reckless, even. By no means am I complimenting him, I’m just giving credit for having the audacity to take risks… even if he tries backtracking. There are plenty of billionaires out there, and I can’t think of a reason to like any of them. Most of them though… they sit on their money, or make “safe” investments. He goes at it like a madman, and it’s amusing at the very least.

 

[Kat]

He tried to get out of it when he realized what came with it, I recall that. I’m referring to the simple fact that he even thought it was tangible to begin with. Call it reckless, even. By no means am I complimenting him, I’m just giving credit for having the audacity to take risks… even if he tries backtracking. There are plenty of billionaires out there, and I can’t think of a reason to like any of them. Most of them though… they sit on their money, or make “safe” investments. He goes at it like a madman, and it’s amusing at the very least.

I'm unconvinced he ever intended to go through with it, but I'll concede the point if he actually goes through with his offer to fight Mark Zuckerberg. Then you'll be completely correct, he takes ballsy risks with amusing results.

 

[Mark]

I'm unconvinced he ever intended to go through with it, but I'll concede the point if he actually goes through with his offer to fight Mark Zuckerberg. Then you'll be completely correct, he takes ballsy risks with amusing results.

I would LOVE to see those two fools go at it, especially with all their boutique and bespoke martial arts training they have at their disposal.

 

[Disgustipated]

He tried to get out of it when he realized what came with it, I recall that. I’m referring to the simple fact that he even thought it was tangible to begin with. Call it reckless, even. By no means am I complimenting him, I’m just giving credit for having the audacity to take risks… even if he tries backtracking. There are plenty of billionaires out there, and I can’t think of a reason to like any of them. Most of them though… they sit on their money, or make “safe” investments. He goes at it like a madman, and it’s amusing at the very least.

Nah the initial offer was just a pump and dump scheme. He already owned a decent amount of twitter stock (~9%) before he offered to buy it. Figured he would offer to buy it, the stock would shoot up, then he sells his shares, backs out of the purchase, and makes a tidy profit in the process. He didn’t plan on being literally forced into completing the purchase.

 

[Mark]

Nah the initial offer was just a pump and dump scheme. He already owned a decent amount of twitter stock (~9%) before he offered to buy it. Figured he would offer to buy it, the stock would shoot up, then he sells his shares, backs out of the purchase, and makes a tidy profit in the process. He didn’t plan on being literally forced into completing the purchase.

Gotcha, that makes sense. The last I had heard was that he was disputing the valuation of the company or some shit because of bot and inactive accounts. I admit, I don’t follow those kinda events regularly, so I miss out on a lot of details.

 

[Kat]

Gotcha, that makes sense. The last I had heard was that he was disputing the valuation of the company or some shit because of bot and inactive accounts. I admit, I don’t follow those kinda events regularly, so I miss out on a lot of details.

That's probably for the best. I know more about him than I should, I genuinely wish the world would give him less attention, but his antics are an endlessly hilarious train wreck that's difficult to turn away from. I so, so, so hope he fights Zuck. I feel like they both owe that to the world.

 

[shortkut]

Gotcha, that makes sense. The last I had heard was that he was disputing the valuation of the company or some shit because of bot and inactive accounts. I admit, I don’t follow those kinda events regularly, so I miss out on a lot of details.

That was how he tried to get out of the deal

 

[Mark]

That's probably for the best. I know more about him than I should, I genuinely wish the world would give him less attention, but his antics are an endlessly hilarious train wreck that's difficult to turn away from. I so, so, so hope he fights Zuck. I feel like they both owe that to the world.

I try to stay in my lane when it comes to that kinda shit. I have plenty of opinions about what I see snapshots and bullet points of, but I simply refuse to invest the energy into uncovering every little detail about it. Half of the problem with those kinda people is that other people pay attention to them. It feeds the monster.

 

[Holly]

The only thing I'll give him credit for is his pump & dump of Dogecoin. Anyone who knew anything knew Dogecoin was worthless, is worthless, is always going to be worthless. It has no cap. It was created as a joke, and the dogecoin community had imploded after the departure of the creator, the shutdown of the reddit dogetipbot, and the arrest of Alex Green. It was fun while it lasted but it was never designed to last.

I held onto the doge I had mined back then, mostly for giggles. Sold when it hit 5 cents (before the meteoric rise to 25 cents) and came out with $2,000 so probably one of the few people to actually make money on the joke coin. Could have been $15,000 at the peak but I didn't want to be left holding the bag when the joke was up. Uncle Sam wanted enough as it is when I filed taxes the next year. >_>