Elon Musk

it does seem like he knew who he was and just didnt care

idk it seems every time something breaks on Twitter there are employees (or ex-employees) stunned at how little Elon seems to know about how Twitter actually runs, I would not be surprised if Elon saw the word "Figma", thought he was being trolled, and now has to double down on it because he's that dumb? sorta like how he got forced into buying Twitter in the first place?

idk he def a least found out who the guy was at some point because he was sharing info about him

yeah I think he found out after he started talking shit about him, that's kind of how Elon operates

elon you huge baby bitch pic.twitter.com/SNjbodeeeb

— metal.txt (@metaltxt) March 7, 2023

people are speculating that elon thought figma was some sort of joke the guy was just trolling, its design collaboration software

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqlgWCfWIAARC90?format=jpg&name=medium

who knows tho, regardless elon should be thrown into a pit

i don't believe that excuse.

i dont think its an excuse

when all you have is a bofa, everything looks like a ligma

people are speculating that elon thought figma was some sort of joke the guy was just trolling

I 100% believe this

yeah then once he realized the guy was for real he doubled down to save face makes sense

his paranoia about getting owned led him to a huge self own

many such cases

sad

Elon being one of the single-app dummies explains a lot

I get playing dumb as a bit on twitter but the thing that irritates me is people doing "I don't know what that is" or asking for explanations of what easily-searchable entities are because they refuse to do anything other than scroll and reply

I guess that's an argument for the all-in-one apps, just make it so you can click on any word and the wiki entry pops up. Not that he's going to read that, either

playing dumb is also a classic boss domination tactic

oh, is it?

ignorance is strength

yeah he's just going to stonewall this guy in litigation, I feel bad for him

― 龜, Tuesday, March 7, 2023 12:01 PM (forty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is true.

i had a tweet about the fact that twitter is still paging me do numbers over the weekend. lots of replies, as terrible as ever, but i also didn't see any ads.

i had to mute that conversation everyone was faving your cute reply to me, an innocent man

yeah that was rough sorry

if twitter could monetize people explaining each other's jokes in the comments they would have a winner

Halli is such a contrast to Elon Musk and the entire Silicon Valley model.

When he sold his company to Twitter, he took the payment as wages so he’d pay much more tax to give back to Iceland’s social system. Meanwhile, Musk fights higher taxes while taking billions in subsidies. https://t.co/zpHa6uA3Pb pic.twitter.com/dlVPYYkdZE

— Paris Marx (@parismarx) March 7, 2023

whooerps

wow. the guy, Halli, that Elon Musk has been mocking is not only a class act, but was literally on a list of "do not fire" VIPs because of how expensive his exit package was (likely because, if what Halli's other tweets say are true, Twitter acquired his company for a good price) https://t.co/H1skqNyiHI

— Dan Seljak (@anotherglassbox) March 7, 2023

he's not getting a penny.

lag∞n are you metal.txt?

no but im metal af haha

i never tweet out of character from my bot accounts i consider it a violation of the bot code

he's not getting a penny.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 bookmarkflaglink

He'll be ok, he has a wife and children who like him.

obThread, this guy sucks so bad

Elon Musk is such a deeply terrible person even as a kid when another kid hospitalized him, his dad was like fair enough the kid almost killing my son had a point pic.twitter.com/6CZR6ecaRl

— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) March 7, 2023

Another very Trumpy thing about him, an absolute spoiled bully since childhood.

BBC has a little profile on the Icelandic dude... he actually does kind of need the money, or is going to need it at some point:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64871183

I would like to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation. It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful.

He is considering remaining at Twitter.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 7, 2023

POV: you just got a call from your lawyer.

betting now all of the tweet responses are variants of:

"see? Elon can admit when he's wrong, because that's the kind of quality man he is"

OR

"Weak. you didn't owe him an apology CANCEL CULTURE amirite"

lmao

That messed up, why would those people lie to you

— Dan Nguyen (@dancow) March 7, 2023

"based on things I was told that were untrue"

that very sentence is untrue

it was the pizza deliveryman

he passed on a false rumor and i only regret that i believed him

Fuck this guy forever. Obviously nothing he does isn't gross but secretly firing and publicly mocking someone with muscular dystrophy is ghoulish even by those low standards

if you read musk's tweets in the voice of a 13 year old who is being forced to apologize they're way better.

betting now all of the tweet responses are variants of:

"see? Elon can admit when he's wrong, because that's the kind of quality man he is"

OR

"Weak. you didn't owe him an apology CANCEL CULTURE amirite"

― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Tuesday, March 7, 2023 4:20 PM

i'm cynical enough to believe that his public responses are a show and his actual response is to establish more bot accounts to post this exact sort of response.

I think experience informs us that you cannot in fact be too cynical about this guy.

I think when his Twitter bullying of a guy with muscular dystrophy started to get reported on cnn and bbc etc is about when that half baked apology got written

It's kind of astounding re: the subject of this thraed how quickly I've zipped from 'you are a person whose name and face I recognize and that's about it' to 'how soon can u do us all a favor and stop being alive'

he's not getting a penny.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 bookmarkflaglink

*6 hours later* he might be?

god he embarrassed himself so thoroughly yesterday that nobody noticed he also spent a good part of the day retweeting Tucker Carlson's idiotic Jan 6 story

Hard Drive remains on his case, previously seen ratioing him repeatedly

well you're the expert on SNL's bad days pic.twitter.com/Ysb5oJsRBK

— Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag) May 30, 2022

reversing your charitable decision? for shame, Mr Musk https://t.co/lLnHSICJx9

— Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag) March 8, 2023

i think all this shows is that musk is maybe a little serious about trying to win advertisers back to twitter - publicly attacking a guy with muscular dystrophy who by all accounts sounds like he could play All Around Nice Guy in the next pixar movie is not going to assuage advertisers concerns with the platform.

i don't think the threat of litigation over his contract was the deterrent here, there's already hundreds of millions in comp that he's not paying to the former twitter c-suite iirc, among others.

yeah agree it was prob more of a pr issue, it was getting coverage on tv, thats not great lol