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I didn’t see this mentioned, so I’ll bring it up here.
ESPN writer Adam Schefter had his account “parodied” by some college kid who spent $8 and sent news like the Raiders coach getting fired.
Someone else made a fake LeBron James account in which he demanded a trade from the Lakers.
And it’s impossible to tell if they’re real or not until they get banned, because they paid $8 for the blue checkmark.
Elon Musk is trying to fail. Unless he’s really that stupid.
Just because you were spectacularly successful at one thing doesn’t mean you have some kind of omnipotence or omniscience.
I’d say that trying to fail is usually a sign of somebody being really stupid.
Of course, there are people who will refuse to accept this. They believe that billionaires are a higher form of life who are incapable of making a mistake. So when somebody like Elon Musk is publicly failing, they will say that ordinary grubs like us aren’t capable of understanding the genius of somebody like Musk, who is only choosing to appear to fail in order to go on to achieve higher levels of success as a result.
This is really big because sports talk on Twitter is maybe a hundred times bigger than politics talk. I regularly check what’s trending there and there are many days where every single trending item is about sports. That’s rare for any other topic.
That adds to the mystery, as one would assume Jack Dorsey has some degree of insight into the company he helped found and ran until recently. And he is supposedly Musk’s buddy. How, if he is advising Musk, is this going so disastrously?
Well you can click through and it should tell you whether they bought a blue check or got it by being notable. There are some reports that this has occasional glitches, but I believe it mostly works.
Not that this makes much of a difference to how dumb Elon’s move was.
“ordinary grubs like us aren’t capable of understanding the genius of somebody like Musk”. So what I, an ordinary grub, is reading, is that Musk is playing 4D chess! 
OTOH, it leads to a mindset that you do.
It’s not that he’s so much smarter than an ordinary grub like us, it’s that he’s acting stupider than an actual grub.
Well, I think it’s possible that Dorsey wildly overestimated Musk’s intelligence and business savvy. I would certainly like his thoughts on the subsequent trainwreck, but his tweets since then have been few and cryptic, and on top of that his tweets (even before this) have been pretty abstracted anyway.
Oops. Looks like $8 was enough to tank some stock.
Did Twitter Blue tweet just cost Eli Lilly $LLY billions?
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Yes. pic.twitter.com/w4RtJwgCVK
Or he just needed to unload that white elephant and Musk made himself the ideal patsy.
No.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey retained a 2.4% stake in the microblogging site after Elon Musk completed his $44 billion acquisition, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By the numbers: The filing indicates that Dorsey rolled over some 18 million shares when Twitter became private.
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/01/jack-dorsey-retains-twitter-stake-elon-musk-takeover
Could just be plausible deniability.
Wow. a complete list of all the employees who were laid off. You can analyze which departments were gutted, find each employee’s linked in and recruit them, I don’t know what else.
#TooDumbToFail
#TooStonedToFail
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It’s hard to wrap my head around just how idiotic this has been. The “Verified” checkmark has meant one very specific thing for over a decade. Now, it would have made sense if Musk had changed it to “If you subscribe to Twitter Blue you will automatically be eligible for verification as long as you meet the requirements and pass the review” because honestly there’s a lot of people on Twitter who ought to be verified and aren’t.
He didn’t do that. He foolishly believed $8 would be enough to separate the sheep from the goats and is paying a much steeper price. People have capitalized on this dumb decision to make a lot of funny jokes that are pissing off Twitter’s most important source of revenue. The verified badge is meaningless now. It’s hastily being replaced by a different verified badge for no discernible reason. Or maybe it’s not, because this particular detail keeps changing on a moment to moment basis. This debacle has literally cost other companies millions of dollars.
Musk has no idea what he’s doing. If a new home owner walked in the door and lit the curtains on fire because he was cold and didn’t know how to work the thermostat that would be less stupid than what Musk has done since buying twitter.
I wonder if Eli Lilly could have a cause of action against Twitter for this.
No, I mean making your work your life. It’s understandable for SpaceX engineers but I don’t think Twitter has the same sort of inspiring goal.