Just like Vladimir Putin's "special operation" in Ukraine, the "temporary measure" may be a permanent one (to boost or fake sign-ups, using a phony crisis)
"The fraudster (Elon Musk) got defrauded or at least fooled, for a change."Looking back, I should have abandoned it earlier. In retrospect, my time was wasted. Twitter is a dumpster fire and there's no way to recover from this. As a business, Twitter has truly massive debt (huge debt per capita or per head), it is still losing a lot of money (after mass layoffs of unprecedented scale), and even just keeping up with debt payments (the interest!) is infeasible. The interest rates went up by a lot. Paying as little as 5% interest on a debt like 14,000,000,000 US dollars is a lot. No wonder Twitter management thinks twice before paying its hosting bill and rent. The fools who bought this worthless, toxic asset probably have buyer's guilt/remorse but they can't get themselves to just pull the plug and call it a "write-off". They got conned. The fraudster (Elon Musk) got defrauded or at least fooled, for a change. He's not smart at all.
"A lot of people in the media want to see Twitter up in flames."Looking at the past week's news, Twitter is facing many lawsuits and lawyers aren't cheap [1]. There's a censorship problem [2] and Apple pulled out as an advertiser (it was the biggest advertiser). Now it just uses it for video hosting [3] and that's expensive [4-5], so Apple is in effect offloading the costs. A week ago Musk was mocked for lying about free speech [6] and he might be lying about the latest change [7-11], which basically denies people like me reading my own tweets (I discarded my password, intentionally, and cannot log in). Will that change be undone, ever? Some people theorise he's just trying to lure people who typically lurk into creating an account. He is trying to boast "growth", even if that's measured using bogus yardsticks.
There's plenty other negative publicity about Twitter dating a week back [12-14]. Twitter has managed to become the "bad boy" or the villain. A lot of people in the media want to see Twitter up in flames. From a purely commercial point of view, there's no reason to even keep it online anymore. If Musk files for bankruptcy (under the name "Twitter" or "X" or whatever), he might find a way out and away from class action lawsuits over severance payments. ⬆
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