People don’t seem to have realised he doesn’t care if ad revenue and brand value goes down.
It’s just a plaything to him, and he’s enjoying upsetting its fans.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 2:35,
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he doesn't come across as someone who's not bothered, though perhaps I don't have the personal insight into his motivations as you do
but given he's launching self-described “thermonuclear lawsuits” against non-profits whom he blames for scaring advertisers, has just returned from a virtue-signalling tour in Israel with Netanayu looking sombre at massacre sites to try to demonstrate to fleeing advertiser that he's really not some antisemitic conspiracy theorist and must have accidentally reposted those antisemitic tweets, it's easy to do, you know?
...maybe he cares just a little bit?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 3:41,
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You follow his exploits more closely than I do. He appears to me to do and say whatever he wants. He certainly enjoys the attention.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 4:59,
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I read the papers, if that’s what you mean
But on his need for attention we’re agreed
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 11:39,
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He doesn’t care if it’s negative attention, and it’s quicker and easier to get negative attention.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 17:09,
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I think he wants people to think he's cool and it's quicker and easier to get horrible fuckwits to think he's cool.
It's not the liberal tears he likes, it's the gentle lapping of the fash tongues at his scrotum.
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tickle I was away, Sat 2 Dec 2023, 21:47,
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Seems unlikely he wouldn't care.
His brand was Mr TED talk big tech future business guy.
His handling of Twitter has shown himself to be someone who doesn't understand basic tech or business, and who is a massive racist. Ratnered his own reputation.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 10:00,
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Of course he cares
He bought it to cheer himself up and it hasn't worked. Exactly the same situation with Bezos and his rocket. Tragic men with tragic personal lives trying to take the pain away with money.
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I'm not sure he even wanted it.
Tried to get out of the deal before it went through, didn't he?
As far as I'm aware, he got the idea from some some random alt-right account who told him to buy it. He did it for the worst possible reason... bants.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 10:17,
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The "fight" vs Zuckerberg as well
You can picture exactly what he was like at school.
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Exactly. He didn’t even like Twitter, but he thought fucking with it would be fun, and he doesn’t care about the damage he’s doing.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 1 Dec 2023, 0:01,
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He's not really fucking with it in fun ways, though.
Besides bringing back all the fash accounts and once swapping the logo with a Doge, it's all been enshittification in a desperate attempt to make money - not stupid shit to amuse himself and his minions.
Anyone who has made 34000+ posts despite the money to do *anything else* likes Twitter, or is at least addicted to it. He just doesn't understand it as a business.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 1 Dec 2023, 10:26,
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Enshitification is my new word of the week
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 3 Dec 2023, 1:39,
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i reckon his man-child ego is probably a good restraining force on him
that need to be liked. it's the quiet evil ones in the background, like the koch brothers sinking billions into climate denialism and propping up trump that are the ones I worry about. I just find the combination with musk of a billionaire with that kind of incel sensibility quite funny.
I do wonder what advertisers are after with twitter anyway. Facebook is bored idle scrolling good for selling shit. Are all the trolls, culture warriors and incels that infest twitter desperately trying to get their cutting remark liked above others really going "Sunak is a disgrace! All migrants have a legal right to.." oh, look, there's a special on Nikes..."equal treatment under law #StartTheBoats"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 30 Nov 2023, 23:38,
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He's a cunt.
That's my detailed analysis, any newspapers who want to publish it can gaz me for my bank details.
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