Elon Musk

Seeing quite a few folks in my timeline specifically deleting their accounts today. Is this just because of the new verification thing going live?

who even knows? the migration urge or decision to stop using twitter seems like it's gotten more momentum and it's maybe incrementally building

Didn’t take long for the first blue tick scam to appear. Almost 27,000 retweets on this one. pic.twitter.com/RqLyQ2cPqC

— Angus Duncan (@Angus_Duncan) November 9, 2022

cant believe people are leaving right in the middle of the biggest ever board mod drama lol

Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in coming months.

We will keep what works & change what doesn’t.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022

tbf that's pretty much how twitter worked for years, so maybe the glory days are back

there were a bit fewer users then, though lol

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Did he get rid of “official” the day it launched?

I just killed it

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 9, 2022

Can’t tell if he’s talking about that one account or the entire feature.

check around a bit, it's gone

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amazing, poor Esther

I think you can still buy yourself a blue check, right? idk

Tesla shares still falling

down down down

the stock is down because Elon is unloading a chunk into the market

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/08/elon-musk-sells-at-least-3point95-billion-worth-of-tesla-shares.html

is that bad

Didn’t that happen a week and a half ago?

i also unloaded 3.95 billion worth… of poop

if you want to short tesla then this is one way to do it

I'm sorry, some clown launched an ETF that was just 7 different short TSLA positions? Short equity, long bear put spreads, short QQQ, long an inverse QQQ ETF, QQQ puts, short ARKK, long an inverse ARK ETF? https://t.co/IOTFSBqQtX

— Quantian (@quantian1) October 31, 2022

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FhA8GhFXkAATsrt?format=jpg&name=900x900

i like how little sleep he's getting

Source for that, sorry

coming to a realization pic.twitter.com/s6eSJheWpC

— MJ (@amorgus_) November 8, 2022

lmao

I just listened to Elon Musk on a Twitter Space that was intended for advertising partners. This is what he said at the outset. It's hard to come to any other conclusion that he has little understanding of human communication, or indeed behavior on the platform he owns. pic.twitter.com/ZiYtLNLd0a

— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix) November 9, 2022

he really is doing a lowtax

Elon in a Twitter space right now: "If someone tries to impersonate a brand, we will get rid of them and we will keep their $8. And they can keep doing that and we will do it again."

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) November 9, 2022

xp

“Now truth can be a somewhat nebulous concept”…it’s like trying to discuss science on ILX, ha!

Dude would be a much more convincing idealist if he weren't such an aggressively shit-posting asshole.

I wonder how many people would believe Chairman Mao quotes attributed to Buddha

He’s out of his mind

https://t.co/VWo3MvENej pic.twitter.com/sAvE1DlTrO

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) November 9, 2022

Lol I ain't giving Twitter access to anything but my shitposts

Tesla’s stock selloff intensifies, on track for lowest close in nearly 2 years

oh yes please, let me link my bank account to this flaming pile of dog shit that is soon to be even more rampant with grifters and crypto hackers

Didn’t that happen a week and a half ago?

― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Wednesday, November 9, 2022 2:07 PM (one hour ago)

well if it did, elon would be in violation for not timely reporting it to the SEC (he's been in trouble with the SEC before but not for that)

Musk right now casually walking through his grand payments vision for Twitter:

Users could link their online bank account to Twitter, he says. Then the company will offer "extremely compelling money market account to get extremely high yield on your balance". Add debit cards etc

— Hannah Murphy (@MsHannahMurphy) November 9, 2022

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

would be cool if elon announced twitter was getting into crypto like facebook/libra lol

The fanboys acting like this is some cunning plan... he didn't need to spend $44bn on Twitter to turn it into Venmobook.

he's re-founding Paypal

Elon is unloading a chunk

gross

uh oh

Reporter: Do you think Elon Musk is a national security threat and should be investigated?

Biden: [long pause] "I think that Elon Musk’s cooperation and/or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at..." pic.twitter.com/OTnlsi4GON

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) November 9, 2022

8 is a lucky number in China. And his thing cost $8. DO U SEE.

lmao at him only knowing PayPal and seeing WeChat as something successful that maybe he could do

Biden trolling Glenn Greenwald

Twitter is now blocking new accounts from its $8 Twitter Blue verified tier

The rule change is to tackle issue of new accounts being made which are then getting verified and used to impersonate high profile accounts

FIREFIGHTING! 🔥😆https://t.co/3rGkY41wZH pic.twitter.com/cbACpfmhX7

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) November 10, 2022

They should really look into why this is happening.

This reminds me of the Web 2.0 days when, breaking from the precedent established by Apple of masking the employees who work on products, companies would let individual designers and engineers, rather than the company, market new features. Essentially Esther is cooked and she doesn’t know it yet.

moving fast breaking shit. if youre a billionaire they let you do it. jk, i just don't have to give a fuck.

it does make me hope for the old "gradually, then suddenly" thing

According to messages shared in Twitter Slack, Twitter’s CISO, chief privacy office, and chief compliance officer all resigned last night.

An employee says it will be up to engineers to “self-certify compliance with FTC requirements and other laws.”

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) November 10, 2022

In the same message, the employee said Twitter’s current head of Legal, Alex Spiro, said “Elon is willing to take on a huge amount of risk in relation to his company and its users, because ‘Elon puts rockets into space, he’s not afraid of the FTC.’”