And that would be a very good thing. For Tesla, that is.
Right now, Tesla is too distracted by things outside it’s core businesses. The android robot is the prime example. There’s all kinds of other companies trying to do a human-shaped robot; why does Musk think Tesla can jump in and do it better? Well, they can’t. And shouldn’t try. Waste of money.
Anyway, without Musk always jumping to the next shiny thing, they need someone to get down to working on the core businesses.
It was E.H. Harriman who entrusted Woodcock with the responsibility of getting the money through.
And he wasn’t paying him enough to get killed was the consensus.
Tesla has lost 16% of its value since the Twitter buyout, or roughly three times what Elon paid for the hellsite.
Hang on, I think I have a violin around here somewhere.
Here you go.
So there’s basically two scenarios, right? Either Twitter ceases to be a place where serious debate happens on news and politics, or in two months (or possibly a week) the chant from the imbecile right will be “damn those elite grey checkmark snobs”!
Not two weeks? 
I am curious as to how those who felt that the blue checks only going to the “elite” now feel, now that blue checks go to people duped into paying for them, and the “elite” now get grey checks.
Elon Musk can do no wrong, so it must be a clever plan to pwn the libs by giving them checkmarks so worn out they’ve faded.
Hey, Elon McMonkey McBean needs something else to sell once all the Sneeches have blue checkmarks on their bellies.
You mean those of us who have never been on Twitter and instead rely on sites like Washington Post, New York Times, the Guardian and nearby metropolitan newspapers for news and StraightDope and Reddit for presenting our own political views have been seriously missing out?
If it is, as Musk called it, “a lords and peasant system.” then does that mean that people who pay for blue checks are just fools that thought they were buying into royalty?
It’s like one of those outfits that will sell you a “coat of arms” based on “genealogical research” snort.
Yes…
On the debates that happened on Twitter? Yes. You also missed out on the debates happening in plethora of other arenas.
Musk is having a conference call with advertisers right now, apparently, and … based on the quotes being reported, I wouldn’t say it’s going particularly well.
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So we’re all agreed, Twitter dead? Twitter dead now.
The translate tweet option has disappeared. I figure he wants to charge for that too.
Dammit. I follow a lot Ukrainians and now I don’t know what they’re saying.
Musk just killed that Official check that they just rolled out.