It’s all being done for publicity, so people will talk about him and his company. Good thing it’s not working!
He’s having the most expensive mid-life crisis in human history.
In addition to the very long list of everything else, drugs.
Exactly. From Musk’s perspective, the sign was a roaring success. It was massively helpful in spreading the word nationally that Twitter is now X. The fact that it was hideous and illegal helped spread the story, which was the point all along.
Now it’s gone because it served its purpose.
It’s a double whammy - the boy who never grew up has a midlife crisis.
I mean, isn’t that really a bit ol’ “no shit?” Who didn’t think that? But how do you ignore it when it’s as disruptive as it is to neighbors and a safety hazard, among other things. News kind of has a responsibility to report it. I mean 99% of what Musk does is for the headlines. Sometimes you can’t just ignore the troll.
“If”?
That’s what The Beatles should have done with their roof-top concert! Although to be fair, they delayed them as long as they could. Brit cops have even more power than American enforcers even armed only with beat sticks.
Can’t we just get a mod to send him to the cornfield?
Something I hadn’t considered that makes that deathtrap “X” sign on the roof of the San Francisco headquarters of Twitter an even worse idea: Twitter doesn’t own the building, and there is zero chance they asked their landlord permission’s for an illegal and dangerous modification of a protected building.
But the landlord is going to get hit by the city for the costs of all the permits and inspections Elmo decided they didn’t need.
Maybe the landlord can recover those fees along with the millions of rent arrears Twitter still owes them.
Lesson: if someone offers you a business opportunity involving Twitter, RUN.
This is what we’ve learned over the past few years about how to be a successful business:
- Don’t pay your suppliers; threaten to sue them
- Pass responsibility off to others
- Get your name in the news - good or bad, doesn’t matter
- Insult others in a juvenile fashion on social media
- Keep the grift pipeline going
- If in doubt about a bad idea, double down
- Borrow money; claim you are rich
I get whiplash watching Elmo’s dizzying intellect at work.
He makes the prominent and valuable “blue check” a benefit of paying good money on a recurring basis to Twitter.
And then he allows the sheep he fleeces paying customer to hide that prominent and valuable blue check. Possibly because some people are realizing it’s not flattering to display your badge of gullibility to the entire Twitterverse.
Elon must have gotten his business degree from Trump University.
Stop calling it Twitter guys, Elmo paid good money $44 billion to call it ‘X’ cos ‘X’ is the coolest letter. That’s why he named his children Xavier, X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl. You have to respect peoples choices in names*!
*Does not apply if you are a transgender child of Elmo.
I think the similarities have been noted before.
It’s a very similar business mindset.
“X” is the coolest letter in the United States. If they pronounced “Z” correctly, they’d realize that “Z” is an order of magnitude cooler than “X”.
If that were true, then ZZ Top would not have needed two of them.
Z is dead.
X is ex.
Ninja’d