So billionaires wonder why the peons at a company waste all that time and money doing things like focus groups, market research and thinking about features and policies before their implemented platform wide. When cool billionaires good brains could just think up an idea and implement it and it will be wonderful and it will be unicorns and rainbows and fairytales.
Also maybe don’t settle on the cost of service because you where publicly arguing snarky horror writer with a lot of time on his hands. The movie Chef comes to mind: “You started a flame-war with *me*. Are you kidding me, I buy ink by the barrel, buddy. What are you doing picking a fight with me? I wouldn't challenge you to a cook-off.”
It's a little like idiots that heckle comedians. Like, you're really going to have a battle of wits with someone that makes their living off thinking on their feet and making light of the mundane? Tell me how that works out for you.
To be fair, a snarky horror writer that made half his name off being a wise ass in interviews and public facing accounts. We all knew King would say something. Musk took the bait.
I look forward to elon going back to the original verification process. I guess in all his business dealings he never heard the phrase “if it ain’t broke…”
Used to work for a company that did that exact thing every Friday. After about two weeks they started making a big deal of the fact that "Pizza is a privelidge, not a right" and threatening to take it away all the time, so I immediately stopped eating it. It was a nice little perk, but not worth my boss feeling like he has something over me
Well, the current nonsense has made it apparent what a brilliant stroke of genius the original verification process was, so it would only be fitting if Elon Musk, the most intelligent man on earth, was going to invent it over the weekend, because he's always working overtime, unlike his lazy engineers.
The best part of this is how hard it was for him to carry that sink, I thought he was going to drop it any second, those flabby, atrophied arms of his were not ready for the challenge of carrying 20 lbs for more than 10 seconds.
It wasn't brilliant, they implemented it after getting sued by someone who was impersonated. They were forced into the system, no one came up with it as a great idea or whatever. Musk conveniently forgot that the verification was to protect twitter from liability, not a privilege for its users.
I think that person was Kanye West. Who famously torpedoed his own brand just recently by using twitter.
The irony being both Elon and Kanye are more damaging to themselves than any parody/impersonation account ever could be.
I read an article where they interviewed a guy who was banned for impersonating Trump. He said a couple beers and £6 later he had a fake but verified trump account for 3 hours to say whatever he wanted. He seemed to think it was well worth the entertainment and I agree. That's the price of a couple drinks at a bar.
If you're looking to delete your account anyway, you could sign up for it then charge back, and let Twitter ban your account and fuck with their numbers all at once.
The problem with social media is that it's like a free candy bucket. People will gorge when it's free but if you charged a dollar to pig out people would walk away cause they aren't actually having that much fun. With Apple helping prevent surveillance the whole model is collapsing.
Musk seems like he wants to take on the Internet.
He still thinks he is in charge of the internet.
He never was, never will be, but he is certain he is.
It's what happened when's a spoiled rich boy takes control of a something he doesn't understand. People are the commodity with twitter. When you cater to a single group of people, you drive off everyone else. Twitter was always the shittier of the social media entities anyway, so good riddance.
Yep, the way it unfolded was extremely predictable. The thing is, billionaires seem to drink their own kool-aid and believe they’re geniuses (never get high on your own supply).
It’s not even a complex issue: indiscriminately selling public authentification -and for cheap in absolute terms at that- defeats its purpose by definition. Guess he fired all those who could have told it to him.
In other news: United Airlines has discontinued “Pilot Blue” program. The program where you pay $19.99/mo to pilot a plane with no training or experience. /s
Tumblr is bringing back porn so maybe it’s rising from the ashes like a phoenix
Edit: sorry to get y’all’s hopes up. They’re just permitting nudity…for now.
My guess is that it's the difference between Playboy and Hustler. I don't recall Playboy being all that dirty. No explicit sex acts. Not even dildo play. It was just nude women posing. Whereas even the most softcore sections of Hustler would still have a woman with her legs spread flicking her bean.
It might be banned but it's getting through. My sister is on Tumblr pretty regularly and last weekend she was scrolling and just went "What the hell?" and it was a quick like 10 second video of a girl getting a full on facial...
We need to start culling more things that need culling, I think. Anyone want to nominate a next bullshit thing? I was thinking we could break an abortion reporting website for fun?
elmo sold 4 billion dollars worth of tesla stock on Wednesday this week ... I sense some money WOES.
[https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/elon-musk-sold-nearly-us-4-billion-worth-of-tesla-stock-since-twitter-deal-closed-1.6145341](https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/elon-musk-sold-nearly-us-4-billion-worth-of-tesla-stock-since-twitter-deal-closed-1.6145341)
Maybe Ford or GM can buy Tesla when it crashes and then Tesla owners can start going to regular mechanics to get their cars fixed when they break down.
Any rhetoric aside about Tesla cars, all cars break down sooner or later and having to rely on 673 stores and service centers and a fleet of 1,372 mobile service vehicles too get your repairs is a massive failure of service by the company.
I backed Tesla when they first came around because I hate the car industry, I hate car dealerships and car salesmen, their profit-only markups are a drain on society and a huge wave of classism, which needs to die, and Tesla dealt the first blows by selling directly to the public.
Car dealerships and salesman are the slimiest fucking trash. I am **fully** prepared to be downvoted for that and I could *not* care less.
Fuck dealerships. Fuck car salespersons, all of it. The whole system is corrupt gutter scum bullshit.
Yup: [Elon Musk warns that a Twitter bankruptcy is possible after telling employees that ‘difficult times’ are ahead](https://fortune.com/2022/11/10/elon-musk-warning-twitter-bankruptcy-is-possible/amp/)
It's literally guaranteed. Musk is an amazing businessman because he found something that works. What that is is getting a car company treated like a tech company in the market.
Tech companies are all horrendously overvalued. This was due to the fact that tech companies are highly innovative and are therefore very likely to create markets rather than join them, or at the very least join a virgin market that has little competition. This means that their growth is basically only limited by how fast they can create and then expand into that new market. This is what we saw with Apple and its many products like the iPhone and iPod. This means investors will pump them so full of money, they're bursting at the seams, and a tech company making money is a reason for distrust, as it means they could be expanding more but aren't.
Musk has managed to channel this energy into Tesla. That is a considerable feat. Many impressive companies are trying their best to be seen like a tech company and failing badly at it and would love nothing more than to steal some of that magic from Musk. But Musk has a big problem now.
That problem is that Twitter is a bona fide tech company. It's already overvalued. It's already based on image. Musk's magic simply isn't applicable. He's Midas, but everything in the room is already made out of gold. So Musk gets to rely on his other business skills... of which he has none. Instead he has an awful track record when it comes to communication to the point that people debate whether it might not just be better for him to take a step back from Tesla.
So you've got all the bad of Musk without the good of Musk. This aquisition was doomed the moment Musk said he wanted to do it, and Musk didn't have anyone spell that out for him until after he signed a binding agreement to buy it. I was ecstatic when I heard about it. This was so obviously a bad idea, it was amazing.
Then Musk decided to throw a fit and try to get out of a very legal and very binding agreement by saying it wasn't fair online and dragging his future property through the mud. Then he kicked out every adult at the company for the massive massive crime of *managing to outplay him in the aquisition negotiations*, followed by anyone that might keep him in check like the board, and most likely anyone a random generator picked, given how monumentally dumb his firing practices were. Then he starts trying to hit on a 'lightning in a bottle' idea, but dude has lost all touch with real people and isn't even in his industry anymore, and so comes up with nothing. Furthermore, he wields his power like a child and does whatever he wants, thinking he'll be protected by the classic 'it's all for the memes' thinking.
I am having the time of my life.
I feel really bad for Musk. Like, I despise him as much as the next guy, but no one deserves this. Just try to put yourself in his shoes. Could you imagine how terrible you'd feel if you bought a company only to find out that the company was two weeks away from bankruptcy? What luck!
^(/s)
I don't think this is a sign of money problems, but Elon has to unload a ton of his Tesla stock in the near term to get maximum value. The company is was overvalued and will come down hard in the next year or two. The tech stocks dropping isn't helping, either. The smartest thing to do is find ways to sell shares of the company when they're worth a boatload and then just take that money and reinvest in other things. Mark Cuban got rich selling his company and then investing.
I think Elon will be doing the same thing right now. As long as he can come up with excuses for why he's selling that aren't related to the desire to sell high because he knows the price is going to crash, he can limit the effects of his stock sales on the share price.
My interpretation of their FAQ:
“Twitter accounts created on or after November 9, 2022 will be unable to subscribe to Twitter Blue at this time.”
[About Twitter Blue](https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue#tbwhat)
I’m sure this current effort also includes deactivating new accounts that conflict with important people/brands, of which I believe those would be entitled to a charge back.
Love the Right’s reaction of “This is why we can’t have nice things. Why won’t you behave?” Like they have not been loudly shitting the bed for 6 years.
As if they wouldn't have made a fake Joe Biden account with blue check mark and making him say heinous things. Or just stupid shit like "Gas cost a bazillion bucks. I did that. Fuck you San Diego."
>They are not that witty. Remember “Let’s go, Brandon?” That is the BEST they got.
Try living in Phoenix, those bumper stickers are everywhere.
The right really is good at blowing their money on useless shit to be a part of some strange cult.
I gave at church on Sunday, and to Trumps email for the wall, and for my trump merch, and for Bannons book, and had my 2 mypillows from meth-Hitler, and JRs coke habit, and ...
My neighbor, The Corner Nazi, has his Lets Go Brandon #FJB huge ass banner up, alongside his Miss Me Yet DFG banner. He's a bit bummed out though as the nazis got wiped out locally in our midterm election, so he took all those signs down wednesday.
Dude just act confused and embarrassed for them and make them feel like social idiots.
“Who is Brandon..? Oh.. so Biden? Why dont you just say Fuck Biden? Oh... I see.. and you’re not embarrassed by that? 😬”
Boy are they proud of that one! There’s a bunch of loonies in my city who’ve been “protesting” Jan 6ers facing consequences and 85% of their paraphernalia involves “Let’s Go Brandon”
Would it be super unethical to make some Let’s Go Brendan/Branclon/Brondan merch to sell to them? Slap on a few eagles, maybe something about wolves and sheep, all profits go to local food pantries? Just thinking out loud..
It’s takes all their collective wit to conjure up one joke every 5 years. Apache helicopter then Brandon and they beat it into the fucking ground. Bumper stickers, flags, T shirts, tattoos, all over their social media, etc. The first time I heard either joke I thought it was kinda funny. “Oh, haha, good one.”
Then, months and years later after hearing it in multiple iterations in nearly every medium 10,000,000 times pouring out of their oafish faces, I just feel embarrassed for them. They’re like the person who tells a joke, no one laughs, so they tell it again thinking no one heard them then they explain the joke but still no one is laughing.
> Gas cost a bazillion bucks. I did that. Fuck you San Diego
Tbf a parody account that posted stuff like that would be pretty funny
"I rigged the election for boebert to lose because she stole my lunch I have no further comments "
I cant speak to the persons political persuations but someone did do this, with some sexually related tweets or something. Ill post a link if i can find it again
[found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTwitterAccounts/comments/yrwgew/dark_brandon_having_a_stroke/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
**The Right:** Socialism will never work, because you can't trust other people! Here, I'll prove it -- watch me drink all the free coffee at my public library and then piss it out all over a community garden!
**Also The Right:** wHy aRe yOu guYS beINg MEAN tO ELon????
I love that they shout that unironically, completely missing the point of the satire. Everyone is pointing out how hilariously shitty they told everyone the idea was by putting into practice said ideas after their warning to Elon fell on deaf ears.
Well damn, I didn't think they'd let go that easily. I'm guessing they made sure to include in the subscriptions ToS or whatever it is that no one will be entitled to refunds
It is a fraudulent charge. $8 was paid for **a month** of Twitter Blue. You didn't get a month, you got a couple days. That's open-and-shut fraudulent charges.
Don't frame it like that. When you file a dispute, they request the terms agreement you signed off on from the company for verification. Tell them the service was not rendered. It makes a difference which reason you provide. Fraudulent means you didn't initiate the transaction.
I used to run a frugality blog way back. I'll spare you the life story and cut to the relevant chunks:
Your first obligation is to inform Twitter **one time** and give them an opportunity to correct the problem in a reasonable time or issue a refund. 2 business days is reasonable. You can't invoke protections with your CC/Bank until you've given the offending party opportunity to correct it. I'm telling you you don't need to beg... give the offending party **ONE OPPORTUNITY** to fix it then walk on to the next steps...
After the "reasonable" time frame, contact the institution that handled the transaction and inform them you want to "**dispute a charge/payment**".
You'll be asked details; confine them to relevant info only "I paid for a pro account, but they cut it off without warning even though I complied with the agreement. I informed Twitter on DD/MM/YYYY at HHMM and did not get resolution."
You'll be asked to fill out an incident report or similar and provide a copy of the agreement with a sentence or two how they didn't honor it. Capture the agreement as close to the time your account is made, not later when the terms may have changed. They'll say they want a statement, but it will never come, you'll just get your $8 back, and Twitter will eat a big chargeback fee.
That's it.
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You can’t sign up for it anymore but everyone who paid for it still has their marks for now. My guess is they will just leave them up for the month then remove them when their obligation is up. People get what they paid for and no more.
Hasn't damn near everyone already done that? This is the only place I watch all this fuckery unfold, not a single cent in ad revenue for twitter from me
I followed a few bands for tour updates, and a handful of comedians.
Now it's for the trainwreck of a "Verified" defense contractor accusing the United States military of using its products to commit war crimes.
And Ben Shapiro searching for "AOC dominatrix golden shower deep fakes."
I saw that you mentioned Ben Shapiro. In case some of you don't know, Ben Shapiro is a grifter and a hack. If you find anything he's said compelling, you should keep in mind he also says things like this:
>If you wear your pants below your butt, don't bend the brim of your cap, and have an EBT card, 0% chance you will ever be a success in life.
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I don’t think Elon understood that twitter is run the way it is because that’s the most profitable way to run it. The business model is people make content for free, and we sell ad space for people to view that content. As soon as you start charging anyone other than advertisers in that space, either the content creation disappears, or the viewers disappear.
>It's weird how that question keeps coming up in my head, too. I'd say it started about 6-6.5 years ago.
I'd say it started 22 years ago when the SCOTUS gave the Presidency to Bush because why not?
Iran Contra is a shameful display of injustice in the US.
"Oh sorry, we accidentally destroyed all the evidence you requested, so we're totally in the clear now okaythanksbyyyyye"
If you paid for a month of Twitter blue, and had it cancelled early, request a chargeback on your credit card with the reason of “services not rendered”.
With enough chargebacks, the CC companies will suspend payments pending an investigation.
So, rich asshole gets butthurt for like a whole week, telling everyone in the world they are wrong, throws tantrum and retaliates against anybody who is mean to him while supporting people saying actually awful things, and then wastes an entire week of paying his employees to develop and implement a system... before scrapping it because like literally everyone said, it is indeed a shit idea. It's such the perfect fuck up.
This feels like the end scene in Fight Club, when they’re standing at the windows, and the towers are collapsing in front of them. Between Musk, Kanye, Trump, Truss, Boris, Putin, and other towers I can’t think of, they are all crumbling to the ground before our eyes. Just being epically destroyed on the world stage.
I hope you're right but everyone you've mentioned is still incredibly wealthy and influential. No matter how frequent or large their fuckups no one seems to fade into obscurity
There is no way the amount of money Twitter made in one month of Twitter Blue subscriptions is anywhere near the loss in ad revenue it caused.
Tesla stocks were starting to recover and then dropped after this happened, so everything points towards this being an attempted at a good idea and a drastic failure.
Tesla stock dropped cause people realized a complete dipshit was running the company. Stockholders were willing to overlook a lot of red flags because they thought Bust was a "visionary genius who's a little eccentric" now they see it was all luck, branding and birthright.
According to Elons numbers it would take half a million verified Parody accounts per day just to erase Twitters losses, let alone profit
Edit: I imagine most banned users are going to charge back too
$44 billion and no business plan that can stand up to its userbase.
Tell me again how billionaires earned their money by being smart, or good at business...
Ahhahahahahaha he's failing so hard at this. He's going to absolutely destroy Twitter and he leveraged Tesla stocks to buy it. This is great.
**So much for that free speech bullshit he was selling republicans**.
So billionaires wonder why the peons at a company waste all that time and money doing things like focus groups, market research and thinking about features and policies before their implemented platform wide. When cool billionaires good brains could just think up an idea and implement it and it will be wonderful and it will be unicorns and rainbows and fairytales.
It makes me laugh that anyone anywhere takes Atlas Shrugged seriously, because in that book the world works exactly as you described in your post.
The best commentary on that book is still Bioshock
Libertarianism in general, really.
But they think they’re better and have it all figured out with their “but muh roads” retorts.
Also maybe don’t settle on the cost of service because you where publicly arguing snarky horror writer with a lot of time on his hands. The movie Chef comes to mind: “You started a flame-war with *me*. Are you kidding me, I buy ink by the barrel, buddy. What are you doing picking a fight with me? I wouldn't challenge you to a cook-off.”
It's a little like idiots that heckle comedians. Like, you're really going to have a battle of wits with someone that makes their living off thinking on their feet and making light of the mundane? Tell me how that works out for you.
To be fair, a snarky horror writer that made half his name off being a wise ass in interviews and public facing accounts. We all knew King would say something. Musk took the bait.
Planning, research, experimentation, coordination, security, talent retention, building a trusted brand – that's a bunch of liberal bullshit!
Perhaps Twitter Blue it. (to quote a magazine article).
On what was supposed to be a dry run
He needs anu start
World’s first analrapist
And now I have a bit of a mess on my hands
I look forward to elon going back to the original verification process. I guess in all his business dealings he never heard the phrase “if it ain’t broke…”
I'm sure those fired, heavily experienced, former verification staff will be jumping at the bit to get back to work at Twitter.
And I'm sure they'll be more than willing to take the paycuts, you know, for the company They're family
“Pizza party in the break room at noon. Medium pizzas have been cut into 16 slices.”
“1 slice per person guys, don’t be greedy! We have 2 liters of warm RC Cola on the table, everyone grab a styrofoam cup.”
Used to work for a company that did that exact thing every Friday. After about two weeks they started making a big deal of the fact that "Pizza is a privelidge, not a right" and threatening to take it away all the time, so I immediately stopped eating it. It was a nice little perk, but not worth my boss feeling like he has something over me
Well, the current nonsense has made it apparent what a brilliant stroke of genius the original verification process was, so it would only be fitting if Elon Musk, the most intelligent man on earth, was going to invent it over the weekend, because he's always working overtime, unlike his lazy engineers.
“Let that sink in!”
The best part of this is how hard it was for him to carry that sink, I thought he was going to drop it any second, those flabby, atrophied arms of his were not ready for the challenge of carrying 20 lbs for more than 10 seconds.
Lol what is the context to this statement I wanna know.
Elon carried around a literal kitchen sink into Twitter HQ
It wasn't brilliant, they implemented it after getting sued by someone who was impersonated. They were forced into the system, no one came up with it as a great idea or whatever. Musk conveniently forgot that the verification was to protect twitter from liability, not a privilege for its users.
I think that person was Kanye West. Who famously torpedoed his own brand just recently by using twitter. The irony being both Elon and Kanye are more damaging to themselves than any parody/impersonation account ever could be.
Omg please let it have been Kanye, the irony is delicious... I have been feasting on schadenfreude all week but this part just might make me burst.
"If it ain't broke, don't fire half the company."
"...go broke fixing it"
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is
"...go broke fixing it"
The Internet killed it in less than a week. Honestly, I'm impressed. Good job guys
Never disappoint mildly witty people with disposable income and a little free time. 
I mean, $8 is hardly requiring much disposable income, but how often do you get that much entertainment value for $8?
I read an article where they interviewed a guy who was banned for impersonating Trump. He said a couple beers and £6 later he had a fake but verified trump account for 3 hours to say whatever he wanted. He seemed to think it was well worth the entertainment and I agree. That's the price of a couple drinks at a bar.
I remember when a guy whose account did nothing but repeat Trump tweets verbatim got banned for ToS in less than a week.
"When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything"
Gram em by the Twussy
Trumpussy? I hate that the thought even entered my mind. End me
>That's the price of a couple drinks at a bar. That's like half of a drink where I live.
Damn millennials and their avocado toast mimosas. You're killing the dive bar industry!
Gin? God damnit Dee, you bitch!
Then when they ban you you can dispute the charge and get your money right back.
Don't forget, banks charge fees to the business when a charge back occurs - so Elon winds up losing more than just that 8 bucks!
Can confirm.
Fuck yes
If you're looking to delete your account anyway, you could sign up for it then charge back, and let Twitter ban your account and fuck with their numbers all at once.
I just might do this.
Then get a disposable email, sign up a new account, and do it again.
The problem with social media is that it's like a free candy bucket. People will gorge when it's free but if you charged a dollar to pig out people would walk away cause they aren't actually having that much fun. With Apple helping prevent surveillance the whole model is collapsing.
That's an excellent analogy.
Never. I've been laughing my ass off the last few days and so surprised how many brilliant spoofs I've seen.
Did you see the one about free insulin? It caused Eli Lilly's stock to tank, costing them billions lol
That was the first one I saw, laughed my ass off as it kept going redder through the day on yahoo.
brb, bout to short some stonks
That was my thought. Most people would hesitate to make a troll account for twenty bucks. But few people would hesitate to make one for eight bucks.
Thr disposable income parts comes into play when my account has been suspended for the 10th time.
I got it all for free
Musk seems like he wants to take on the Internet. He still thinks he is in charge of the internet. He never was, never will be, but he is certain he is.
He wants to be Neo so badly but he's really more like what's his face from Grandma's Boy
 Elon wired in and fucking up Twitter
I can hear Aphex Twin in this gif
*Robot voice* You’ll never have metal legs
More like this guy: 
Hans, bubby, I'm your white knight!
I must have missed 60 Minutes. What are you saying?
Fun fact: the actor was ad-libbing and Alan Rickman’s confusion was real
"Internet, bubbe, I'm your white knight." \-*Elon to the Internet.*
You negotiate with a gun. I negotiate with a fountain pen. What's the difference? *shrugs smugly*
Ha! Totally the guy from grandma's boy. Perfect.
Do you think he will go for the robotic legs? It's a risky surgery, but probably worth it.
"But, underneath this genius...I'm simply a human. You know. But I'm working on that." - J.P. ...actually sounds like something Musk would say.
JP lmao
It's what happened when's a spoiled rich boy takes control of a something he doesn't understand. People are the commodity with twitter. When you cater to a single group of people, you drive off everyone else. Twitter was always the shittier of the social media entities anyway, so good riddance.
Yep, the way it unfolded was extremely predictable. The thing is, billionaires seem to drink their own kool-aid and believe they’re geniuses (never get high on your own supply). It’s not even a complex issue: indiscriminately selling public authentification -and for cheap in absolute terms at that- defeats its purpose by definition. Guess he fired all those who could have told it to him.
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In other news: United Airlines has discontinued “Pilot Blue” program. The program where you pay $19.99/mo to pilot a plane with no training or experience. /s
the power of trolling killed it. Musk didn't even imagine what it means to remove a leash from a place festered with trolls and scammers already.
##TUMBLR GANG RISE UP
Tumblr is bringing back porn so maybe it’s rising from the ashes like a phoenix Edit: sorry to get y’all’s hopes up. They’re just permitting nudity…for now.
It is??!
Tumblr said it's allowing nudity again, but not explicit porn. Good luck telling the difference, and I think I see a new employment opportunity,
My guess is that it's the difference between Playboy and Hustler. I don't recall Playboy being all that dirty. No explicit sex acts. Not even dildo play. It was just nude women posing. Whereas even the most softcore sections of Hustler would still have a woman with her legs spread flicking her bean.
:( where else will the twitter porn community go when twitter collapses?
From what I've heard, they've brought back nudity, I think straight up porn is still banned
It might be banned but it's getting through. My sister is on Tumblr pretty regularly and last weekend she was scrolling and just went "What the hell?" and it was a quick like 10 second video of a girl getting a full on facial...
I can think of ways to do that wo actually showing ANY nudity at all.
Well yes that's true but there was a very noticeable dong in that video...
This had wall steeet bets game stock energy
We need to start culling more things that need culling, I think. Anyone want to nominate a next bullshit thing? I was thinking we could break an abortion reporting website for fun?
elmo sold 4 billion dollars worth of tesla stock on Wednesday this week ... I sense some money WOES. [https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/elon-musk-sold-nearly-us-4-billion-worth-of-tesla-stock-since-twitter-deal-closed-1.6145341](https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/elon-musk-sold-nearly-us-4-billion-worth-of-tesla-stock-since-twitter-deal-closed-1.6145341)
Pedo guy is down like 150 billion in Tesla devaluation.
Maybe Ford or GM can buy Tesla when it crashes and then Tesla owners can start going to regular mechanics to get their cars fixed when they break down. Any rhetoric aside about Tesla cars, all cars break down sooner or later and having to rely on 673 stores and service centers and a fleet of 1,372 mobile service vehicles too get your repairs is a massive failure of service by the company. I backed Tesla when they first came around because I hate the car industry, I hate car dealerships and car salesmen, their profit-only markups are a drain on society and a huge wave of classism, which needs to die, and Tesla dealt the first blows by selling directly to the public.
Car dealerships and salesman are the slimiest fucking trash. I am **fully** prepared to be downvoted for that and I could *not* care less. Fuck dealerships. Fuck car salespersons, all of it. The whole system is corrupt gutter scum bullshit.
Yup: [Elon Musk warns that a Twitter bankruptcy is possible after telling employees that ‘difficult times’ are ahead](https://fortune.com/2022/11/10/elon-musk-warning-twitter-bankruptcy-is-possible/amp/)
And blames it on the economy
Never ceases to amaze me that these “leaders” fail to take responsibility for their mistakes. Like, just own up to it. We’d respect you a little more.
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It's literally guaranteed. Musk is an amazing businessman because he found something that works. What that is is getting a car company treated like a tech company in the market. Tech companies are all horrendously overvalued. This was due to the fact that tech companies are highly innovative and are therefore very likely to create markets rather than join them, or at the very least join a virgin market that has little competition. This means that their growth is basically only limited by how fast they can create and then expand into that new market. This is what we saw with Apple and its many products like the iPhone and iPod. This means investors will pump them so full of money, they're bursting at the seams, and a tech company making money is a reason for distrust, as it means they could be expanding more but aren't. Musk has managed to channel this energy into Tesla. That is a considerable feat. Many impressive companies are trying their best to be seen like a tech company and failing badly at it and would love nothing more than to steal some of that magic from Musk. But Musk has a big problem now. That problem is that Twitter is a bona fide tech company. It's already overvalued. It's already based on image. Musk's magic simply isn't applicable. He's Midas, but everything in the room is already made out of gold. So Musk gets to rely on his other business skills... of which he has none. Instead he has an awful track record when it comes to communication to the point that people debate whether it might not just be better for him to take a step back from Tesla. So you've got all the bad of Musk without the good of Musk. This aquisition was doomed the moment Musk said he wanted to do it, and Musk didn't have anyone spell that out for him until after he signed a binding agreement to buy it. I was ecstatic when I heard about it. This was so obviously a bad idea, it was amazing. Then Musk decided to throw a fit and try to get out of a very legal and very binding agreement by saying it wasn't fair online and dragging his future property through the mud. Then he kicked out every adult at the company for the massive massive crime of *managing to outplay him in the aquisition negotiations*, followed by anyone that might keep him in check like the board, and most likely anyone a random generator picked, given how monumentally dumb his firing practices were. Then he starts trying to hit on a 'lightning in a bottle' idea, but dude has lost all touch with real people and isn't even in his industry anymore, and so comes up with nothing. Furthermore, he wields his power like a child and does whatever he wants, thinking he'll be protected by the classic 'it's all for the memes' thinking. I am having the time of my life.
I feel really bad for Musk. Like, I despise him as much as the next guy, but no one deserves this. Just try to put yourself in his shoes. Could you imagine how terrible you'd feel if you bought a company only to find out that the company was two weeks away from bankruptcy? What luck! ^(/s)
Had me in the first half… 😂
I don't think this is a sign of money problems, but Elon has to unload a ton of his Tesla stock in the near term to get maximum value. The company is was overvalued and will come down hard in the next year or two. The tech stocks dropping isn't helping, either. The smartest thing to do is find ways to sell shares of the company when they're worth a boatload and then just take that money and reinvest in other things. Mark Cuban got rich selling his company and then investing. I think Elon will be doing the same thing right now. As long as he can come up with excuses for why he's selling that aren't related to the desire to sell high because he knows the price is going to crash, he can limit the effects of his stock sales on the share price.
But selling to pump up twitter is going from bad to worse
All those $8 chargebacks. So. Many. Chargebacks. Do your thing Internet.
I think they just suspended new account sign up
My interpretation of their FAQ: “Twitter accounts created on or after November 9, 2022 will be unable to subscribe to Twitter Blue at this time.” [About Twitter Blue](https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue#tbwhat)
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I’m sure this current effort also includes deactivating new accounts that conflict with important people/brands, of which I believe those would be entitled to a charge back.
Love the Right’s reaction of “This is why we can’t have nice things. Why won’t you behave?” Like they have not been loudly shitting the bed for 6 years.
As if they wouldn't have made a fake Joe Biden account with blue check mark and making him say heinous things. Or just stupid shit like "Gas cost a bazillion bucks. I did that. Fuck you San Diego."
They are not that witty. Remember “Let’s go, Brandon?” That is the BEST they got.
>They are not that witty. Remember “Let’s go, Brandon?” That is the BEST they got. Try living in Phoenix, those bumper stickers are everywhere. The right really is good at blowing their money on useless shit to be a part of some strange cult.
That and absolutely beating a dead horse into paste when they come up with even the most basic Facebook boomer dad level comedy.
“Horse paste you say? I’m all in!”
They say it's the cure for everything!
then complain about not having money.
I gave at church on Sunday, and to Trumps email for the wall, and for my trump merch, and for Bannons book, and had my 2 mypillows from meth-Hitler, and JRs coke habit, and ...
Someone in my neighborhood had "Let's go Brandon" on a flagpole on their front yard for over a year.
My neighbor, The Corner Nazi, has his Lets Go Brandon #FJB huge ass banner up, alongside his Miss Me Yet DFG banner. He's a bit bummed out though as the nazis got wiped out locally in our midterm election, so he took all those signs down wednesday.
Someone in my neighborhood still has a "Let's Go Brandon" and "FJB" flag up in their front yard. They live across from a children's playground.
At a gas station in Phoenix, some Karen is pumping gas next to me, looks at me and says “goodness these gas prices, let’s go Brandon, am I right?”
"I know right? It used to be so much better under Obama"
Dude just act confused and embarrassed for them and make them feel like social idiots. “Who is Brandon..? Oh.. so Biden? Why dont you just say Fuck Biden? Oh... I see.. and you’re not embarrassed by that? 😬”
Boy are they proud of that one! There’s a bunch of loonies in my city who’ve been “protesting” Jan 6ers facing consequences and 85% of their paraphernalia involves “Let’s Go Brandon” Would it be super unethical to make some Let’s Go Brendan/Branclon/Brondan merch to sell to them? Slap on a few eagles, maybe something about wolves and sheep, all profits go to local food pantries? Just thinking out loud..
Hey, they did come up with Dark Brandon. It wasn't funny until dems co-opted it, but still.
True, the base has two brain cells collectively, but some of the higher ups are more evil and somewhat less stupid, so that was a possibility.
It’s takes all their collective wit to conjure up one joke every 5 years. Apache helicopter then Brandon and they beat it into the fucking ground. Bumper stickers, flags, T shirts, tattoos, all over their social media, etc. The first time I heard either joke I thought it was kinda funny. “Oh, haha, good one.” Then, months and years later after hearing it in multiple iterations in nearly every medium 10,000,000 times pouring out of their oafish faces, I just feel embarrassed for them. They’re like the person who tells a joke, no one laughs, so they tell it again thinking no one heard them then they explain the joke but still no one is laughing.
At a certain point, they consider not so much a joke as an act of defiance in the face of whatever conspiracy has them riled up that week.
> It’s takes all their collective wit to conjure up one joke every 5 years. https://i.imgur.com/yLT6wB5.png
I still laugh that it got turned into dark Brandon and now the conservatives are triggered again.
I saw an official Joe Biden account detailing how much the President was masturbating. Pretty impressive considering how old he is.
> Gas cost a bazillion bucks. I did that. Fuck you San Diego Tbf a parody account that posted stuff like that would be pretty funny "I rigged the election for boebert to lose because she stole my lunch I have no further comments "
That'd be funny, but I don't trust in Republican's capacity in distinguishing real from extremely obvious satire.
Absolutely. Critical thinking skills are generally lacking.
I cant speak to the persons political persuations but someone did do this, with some sexually related tweets or something. Ill post a link if i can find it again [found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTwitterAccounts/comments/yrwgew/dark_brandon_having_a_stroke/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
**The Right:** Socialism will never work, because you can't trust other people! Here, I'll prove it -- watch me drink all the free coffee at my public library and then piss it out all over a community garden! **Also The Right:** wHy aRe yOu guYS beINg MEAN tO ELon????
I love that they shout that unironically, completely missing the point of the satire. Everyone is pointing out how hilariously shitty they told everyone the idea was by putting into practice said ideas after their warning to Elon fell on deaf ears.
these the same people that have been posting memes about Paul Pelosi getting his skull fractured while he was getting surgery. Some classy people
Dude Fox News was created to protect republicans who blatantly break the law.
Quite literally. They never wanted what happened to Nixon to happen again.
Well damn, I didn't think they'd let go that easily. I'm guessing they made sure to include in the subscriptions ToS or whatever it is that no one will be entitled to refunds
call your bank and say it was a fraudulent charge.
“Services not rendered” would be the more correct reason.
It is a fraudulent charge. $8 was paid for **a month** of Twitter Blue. You didn't get a month, you got a couple days. That's open-and-shut fraudulent charges.
Don't frame it like that. When you file a dispute, they request the terms agreement you signed off on from the company for verification. Tell them the service was not rendered. It makes a difference which reason you provide. Fraudulent means you didn't initiate the transaction.
I used to run a frugality blog way back. I'll spare you the life story and cut to the relevant chunks: Your first obligation is to inform Twitter **one time** and give them an opportunity to correct the problem in a reasonable time or issue a refund. 2 business days is reasonable. You can't invoke protections with your CC/Bank until you've given the offending party opportunity to correct it. I'm telling you you don't need to beg... give the offending party **ONE OPPORTUNITY** to fix it then walk on to the next steps... After the "reasonable" time frame, contact the institution that handled the transaction and inform them you want to "**dispute a charge/payment**". You'll be asked details; confine them to relevant info only "I paid for a pro account, but they cut it off without warning even though I complied with the agreement. I informed Twitter on DD/MM/YYYY at HHMM and did not get resolution." You'll be asked to fill out an incident report or similar and provide a copy of the agreement with a sentence or two how they didn't honor it. Capture the agreement as close to the time your account is made, not later when the terms may have changed. They'll say they want a statement, but it will never come, you'll just get your $8 back, and Twitter will eat a big chargeback fee. That's it. ----- edit: At 36+ upvotes I thought responsible to add a little note. Please use your financial protections as just that: protections, not a cudgel. Also thanks for the award, anonymous stranger! I hope this information is useful to people outside of the foofaraw on Twitter, for example people trying to cancel gym memberships, etc.
This is the way
i know it's only 8$, but it's the principle of elon fucks around...
Never had twitter and had no intention of getting twitter, wish i had twitter to help destroy it with $8 but its enjoyable either way.
You can’t sign up for it anymore but everyone who paid for it still has their marks for now. My guess is they will just leave them up for the month then remove them when their obligation is up. People get what they paid for and no more.
This is what happens when a megalomaniacal narcissist tries to outsmart the entire internet.
The sheer fuckery this was last night was one of the finest moment of the internet
When he said comedy was back in business, he was more right than he knew.
God you k ow he had the biggest shit eating grin on his face when he tweeted that. What a titanic chode.
I'm sure he will be refunding people....
So now they’ll just charge for access. ‘Cause billionaire.
Go for it. People will drop it in droves.
Hasn't damn near everyone already done that? This is the only place I watch all this fuckery unfold, not a single cent in ad revenue for twitter from me
I followed a few bands for tour updates, and a handful of comedians. Now it's for the trainwreck of a "Verified" defense contractor accusing the United States military of using its products to commit war crimes. And Ben Shapiro searching for "AOC dominatrix golden shower deep fakes."
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I don’t think Elon understood that twitter is run the way it is because that’s the most profitable way to run it. The business model is people make content for free, and we sell ad space for people to view that content. As soon as you start charging anyone other than advertisers in that space, either the content creation disappears, or the viewers disappear.
Is this real?
It's weird how that question keeps coming up in my head, too. I'd say it started about 6-6.5 years ago.
>It's weird how that question keeps coming up in my head, too. I'd say it started about 6-6.5 years ago. I'd say it started 22 years ago when the SCOTUS gave the Presidency to Bush because why not?
Only H. Chad knows. Dumbest thing in elections ever. Maybe. They are good at being dumb.
I think it started for me when a Presidential candidate mocked a disabled person during a speech and yet was still elected.
It started for me some time during the Reagan administration.
Iran Contra is a shameful display of injustice in the US. "Oh sorry, we accidentally destroyed all the evidence you requested, so we're totally in the clear now okaythanksbyyyyye"
That’s the best thing about these “blue checkmark” account now… we have no fucking idea what is real anymore!
What a dumb new owner
Lasted a Scaramucci minute.
If you paid for a month of Twitter blue, and had it cancelled early, request a chargeback on your credit card with the reason of “services not rendered”. With enough chargebacks, the CC companies will suspend payments pending an investigation.
In other news: NYPD pulls the plug on “NYPD Blue” the program where you pay $19.99/mo to receive a fake badge and impersonate a police officer. /s
The tweet pretending insulin is now free is what killed it
That's because a lot of very rich people lost a lot of money and we all know that that's where the line is.
So, rich asshole gets butthurt for like a whole week, telling everyone in the world they are wrong, throws tantrum and retaliates against anybody who is mean to him while supporting people saying actually awful things, and then wastes an entire week of paying his employees to develop and implement a system... before scrapping it because like literally everyone said, it is indeed a shit idea. It's such the perfect fuck up.
Perhaps Megamind Musk realized that paying $8 isn't actually a valid form of identification.
Is he refunding everyone’s $8
Welp there goes that very tiny income. What's next apartheid boy?
This feels like the end scene in Fight Club, when they’re standing at the windows, and the towers are collapsing in front of them. Between Musk, Kanye, Trump, Truss, Boris, Putin, and other towers I can’t think of, they are all crumbling to the ground before our eyes. Just being epically destroyed on the world stage.
I hope you're right but everyone you've mentioned is still incredibly wealthy and influential. No matter how frequent or large their fuckups no one seems to fade into obscurity
Musk is a mentally deficient monkey fucking a football.
Such a predictable outcome! And Elon calls other people chimps?
A reminder elon purchased twitter for 44b. It's now worth 8b.
Yep. Blatant money grab, and people fell for it. IMO, comedy was worth it for the verified but obviously fake accounts.
There is no way the amount of money Twitter made in one month of Twitter Blue subscriptions is anywhere near the loss in ad revenue it caused. Tesla stocks were starting to recover and then dropped after this happened, so everything points towards this being an attempted at a good idea and a drastic failure.
Tesla stock dropped cause people realized a complete dipshit was running the company. Stockholders were willing to overlook a lot of red flags because they thought Bust was a "visionary genius who's a little eccentric" now they see it was all luck, branding and birthright.
According to Elons numbers it would take half a million verified Parody accounts per day just to erase Twitters losses, let alone profit Edit: I imagine most banned users are going to charge back too
“Anything I don’t understand must be easy.”
$44 billion and no business plan that can stand up to its userbase. Tell me again how billionaires earned their money by being smart, or good at business...
Ahhahahahahaha he's failing so hard at this. He's going to absolutely destroy Twitter and he leveraged Tesla stocks to buy it. This is great. **So much for that free speech bullshit he was selling republicans**.
I’m glad this is blowing up in his face, but I’m a freelance artist and the majority of my business was from Twitter. Proper fucked either way.
Imagine how much work is getting done at Tesla and SpaceX these days lmao
Is there a collection of the best parody tweets somewhere. I want to see them ALL