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[–] PetteriPano@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I never really understood twitter. Feels to me like it's all about following personalities in a poor format that doesn't cater to discussion. I've had an account since early, mostly for testing twitter integrations for work. I haven't even bothered to log in for a couple of years.

I logged in yesterday just to deactivate my account.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I think it really only made sense to me when it was SMS social media.

Can't remember which phone I had but for something like this it was neat.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I made a Twitter account in the early days when I was a teenager. The sole reason I made it was because one of my favorite bands had an account. Their posts would be sent in an SMS to my phone, and the cool thing about that was how it felt like they were texting me personally.

I have no idea when I last logged in, let alone when I last posted. When the SMS feature was dropped, so did my interest.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 25 points 11 hours ago

Elon Musk before: "Oh, these old Twitter executives were so dumb. When number go up, you've gotta show it everywhere!"

Elon Musk now: "Number not go up? For cripes sake, don't show it!"

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 71 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Trump won the election, this gereatric nepo baby will be well paid for his services

Twitters is a just a pokemon card for him and he used it well.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (17 children)
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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 77 points 1 day ago

don't look guys! I totally did not piss my pants!

-- Elon Musk

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 131 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nazi, who inherited his generational fortune through slave labor, makes people uncomfortable. They leave. Nazi lies about being weird and/or a Nazi.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Insists being a Nazi should not influence anything and demands people and ad money returns.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 80 points 1 day ago (10 children)
[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 14 points 13 hours ago

X never was. Twitter is dead though

[–] capital@lemmy.world 37 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Let that sink in.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 80 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. Fortunately for Elon (and, you know, fascism) he doesn't need it any more. For Elon, it is already 'Mission Accomplished'. The richest, most thin-skinned losers on Earth already control the biggest economy and the biggest military. What more could that shitstain hope to get out of Twitter?

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 55 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Well now he's calling for a new election in the UK (presumably to put the right wing bac in) so looks like he's not happy with just proxy ruling America.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you have to remember, he's an entitled NepoBaby manchild who grew up rich off an emerald mine in Apartheid South Africa, failed upwards into every position he's ever held after blowing shit tons of money into failing companies, claims he knows more about manufacturing than anyone else despite his products getting recalled almost weekly and openly flaunting safety standards over the color of safety gear, and just overall is a massive dweeb who shills failed crypto scams and political grifts over on the Social Media platform he spent Too Much Money™️ on.

So yeah, of COURSE he thinks he can shadow-run 2 governments at once by funding Fascist takeovers. He's just that stupid and entitled. And when it all blows up in his face one day, all I will do is laugh.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

The fact that Elon Musk has time to shadow run GOVERNMENTS while ALSO being CEO of THREE Companies is PROOF that ceos EARN their Billions of Dollars with how much Harder they work!

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 22 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Haha right you are. It is in his nature, I suppose, to grasp and grasp after already being the richest person in history. In a better world, we would put people like Musk in a nice, humane institution.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 10 points 18 hours ago

Or a nice, sharp guillotine

[–] teft@lemmy.world 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

He’s not the richest in history. Modern history, sure if you count excluding inflation. But when people like Mansa Musa existed Musk has quite a ways to go. Hell even Carnegie’s wealth eclipsed Musk if you’re talking purchasing power.

[–] lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Musk has now surpassed Carnegie. You are right about Mansa Musa (for now), but the gap is closing. According to google today, Musk is at $334B, Carnegie peaked at a modest $309B, and Mansa Musa had about $400B, though there are quibbles about personal wealth vs. kingdom's treasury. If you want to compare Musk and Musa, I think you could reasonably add the GDP of the US to Musk's fortune, since he is one of the puppeteers behind Trump. All figures adjusted for inflation, by the way.

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 9 points 18 hours ago

And he’s dancing around Ukraine and Putin. This guy is so entitled.

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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 157 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LOL... is he hiding cause of an exodus, or because of the bot farm he ran for the elections?

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 114 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This just in, lying piece of shit liar lies about something again. 😆

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I wonder what thing TrumpEtAL is going to do to require people to create X accounts.

And then what thing that TrumpEtAL will do to make it so that his enemies can't sign up and hence be in trouble with TrumpEtAL.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

IRS integration requiring efiling through xitter.

[–] annHowe@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 0 points 6 hours ago

Guess how the suckers that want to work with Elon and Vivek have to submit resumes?

[–] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Now do this to Tesla. Make owning a Tesla make you a pariah.

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 17 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Being a Tesla owner is brutal because neither the left nor the right respect you.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 8 points 16 hours ago

Gotta get one of the "I bought this before we knew Elon was an asshole" bumper stickers.

Obviously only works on a car that came out before we knew Elon was an asshole

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

There's a guy in Hawaii selling "I bought this before I knew Elon was crazy" bumper stickers for $10, and he's already sold over 10,000 this year.

Good, I’m glad for him. With the upcoming tariffs/trade war coming our way, I can only imagine how much higher the cost of living in Hawaii is about to get.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It already does.

Sorry to people that haven't sold theirs yet.

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