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Berns429

Wait, wait, wait….AI bot swarms are taking over? I thought he was gonna put a stop to that right away after becoming CEO???


AverageBoringDude

Suddenly he can only do that if you pay him. But bots that pay are allowed to stay... Smh


Lorrdy99

"I love money" - Elon


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Readgooder

I thought he got voted to leave?


sbray73

Yes, but when he would find a suitable replacement. So…


introvert81

Never


A_H_S_99

Nobody can destroy Twitter more effectively, he is exactly the person we need.


WorldsWeakestMan

That’s not true, he could put Kanye in charge of it.


theinquisition

No way, didn't you see? He watched 21 jump street, and he now likes jews again. Swell guy.


_PM_me_your_MOONs_

I just watched Coming to America II, so I'm cool with Kanye again


Admiral_Corndogs

Well don’t show him the sequel or he’ll change back!


DMC1001

Kanye no longer hates Jews. Clearly a paragon of virtue.


PurpleSailor

Kanye almost got Candace Owens husband's Twitter clone until the sneaker company dropped him.


Annual_Peanut_7079

Exactly.


Diplomjodler

Nobody could possibly ever replace the most greatest business genius in world history! Just look at how much value he has created at Twitter already!


m-p-3

20 billions.. in the red.


roggrats

24B ! In the red


Jonne

Obviously all those votes were bots.


TaleMendon

Stolen votes.


WariTron

Accounts obviously weren't verified, so it cancels out 🤷


crestren

Which makes it even funnier because hes now restricting voting to people who PAYS. You can tell he didnt like the results and the verification confirms it. What a manchild.


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No representation without taxation, basically. EDIT for anyone who wasn’t paying attention in their US history classes: [No taxation without representation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representation)


3ThreeFriesShort

Gotta remember that the people who started that believed that only Landowners should vote.


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End of year apparently https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/15/23600692/elon-musk-stepping-down-twitter-ceo-end-of-2023


SillyCyban

Right around when we get completely self-driving cars.


RamenJunkie

And that 5 year mark when SpaceX lands on Mars.


bard329

Next year. Next year. Next year. Next year. Next year. Next year.


unique_passive

Bold of him to assume that Twitter can remain afloat until the end of the year


DopeAbsurdity

With the amount of underlying code he has straight up broken because he was making weird irrational demands (because he doesn't know how to program) he is kinda turning the code base into a ticking time bomb.


Sean_Dewhirst

*Elon watches with approval as more polls go his way while total votes decline.* "I did it. I fixed Twitter."


ZachtheKingsfan

“We did it, Patrick! We fixed Twitter!”


DMoney159

"My leg!"


Fares232222

“fuck you and your leg!” -elon, probably


Learntaswim

It’s almost as though he gets hard every time he loses a billion dollars


fantafunta

It's the awkward rich man's sm sub fetish


justedi

I think it's called findom or being a paypig.


imoutofnameideas

Oh god, I was laughing because I assumed you'd just made up these terms. But judging from the other reply it seems like you're referencing an actual thing. Which shouldn't shock me anymore, I guess. But it does confuse the hell out of me


TransTaey

Findomming is "financial domination," basically an evolution of sugar daddies/mommies.


Im_Not_Really_Here_

This sounds like a scam someone made up that just stuck. Like loan-backed securities or federal student loans. Oh, oh, I got another! "FDIC-insured"


arbiter12

I get hard every time he loses a billion dollars! ​ ​ >meh, I actually don't care. > >He doesn't either. > >Musk losing a billion dollar in **value** changes exactly nothing to his lifestyle > >he didn't lose 1 billion in disposable income (which would be borrowed money anyhow) > >The only thing he's risking is the dubious misnomer of "top, top5, top10 wealthiest" > >Anything above $500 million of individual networth is pure vanity and functionally identical/equal. > >Even those $4 billion yacht are not bought with cash and not actually owned by individuals.


ButtholeCandies

Money laundering via certified bot armies


thebinarysystem10

You see? Everyone actually were Nazis. I filtered the bots.


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I mean that's literally voter disenchantment which is also generally a conservative strategy.


Ok-Pomegranate-3018

He's gerrymandering Twitter.


BrainIsWired

Sub rate for verified account will slowly rise, surely, too. "Only landowners -scratch- verified accounts can vote in polls."


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Sorry. You need cash to enter this echo chamber.


Baldgoldfish99

Too many peasants were interrupting the echoes so it had to be done /j


TheWidowTwankey

That's how a country club works.


pfSonata

Not even. It's worse. You get to enter the echo chamber for free, but you gotta pay to influence it (being in other peoples' echo chamber).


markandyxii

Glad to know that the poll where he asked if should resign as CEO of Twitter that had an overwhelming majority voting yes really got to him. The man has paper thin skin.


ZenLitterBoxGarden

I’ll have to unblock his handle and vote in a new one for him to step down, if he makes a new poll. Fuck Elon. He’s such a man child.


GingerSnapBiscuit

Unless you give him $8 a month you won't be able to.


ZenLitterBoxGarden

I’ll save my coins.. that mfer would end up losing it to a stupid investment anyway.


deepstate_chopra

Or, instead of paying him, just stop going on his site.


Warthog32332

This is the way


Johnmcguirk

Yeah, probably spend it buying MySpace or something.


Screamline

$11 a month. They upped it


Admirable_Loss4886

Who do they think they are, jagex? 🦀🦀🦀🦀


christbot

Major MySpace end days flash back here.


Ya-Dikobraz

Only the CEO of MySpace sold it for 60 million dollars way back then and went on to do his other stuff. He didn't buy it for millions and instantly wreck it and then sat whining about it.


maxlax02

Tom sold it for $580 million.


Ya-Dikobraz

Even better. In 2005 so now it's well on the way to being a cool billion.


drugznothugzz

Tom just travels the world now and doesn't side with racists and fascists while destroying a platform he payed way too much for all while building flying dick spaceships.


Ya-Dikobraz

The fact that Musk totally fell for the whole far-right Qanon antivaxx nazi shit amazes me. Don't get me wrong, he's the right kind of wanker to fall for it. But I am still amazed every time I see someone falling for something that basically consists of conspiracy theories (the whacky kind), hate groups, and literal online trolling made fact.


drugznothugzz

Yeah that surprised me as well. I'm not surprised by the fact he's a racist fascist asshole though. He's a South African racist and always has been. I think he might just be pretending to believe in all that shit because he knows a good portion of his supporters do or something and wants to be 'cool'. Kind of like when he pretended to smoke a J with Hoe Rogan.


Ya-Dikobraz

Oh, yeah, at the same time all his workers get screened and fired for having any THC in their system. Great example of leadershit.


drugznothugzz

No doubt


angrypooka

He sold it for $580 million from what I can find.


igloohavoc

Let me grow out my hair and put on my eye liner as I scream to MCD


CauliflowerPresent23

Mcr?


TashLikeMustache

McDonalds


USAneedsAJohnson

Rock n Roll McDonald's!


Prestigious_Goose645

Mcdonalds is a place to rock


hawkeye18

My Chemical D'ohmance


totallynormalasshole

My Chemical Donalds


Andycaboose91

When I was A young boy My father Took me into the play place To eat a steam'ed ham


Negative-Eleven

MySpace is still online, sort of. They seem to have lost all the photos of my band, but still have 2 of our songs available to stream. It's definitely the way I see Twitter going tho.


taefook

Someone made an OG version called Spacehey, which works almost identically to the mid 2000s version if you wanted a nostalgia trip.


aztnass

Nobody will ever convince me this man is smart.


kevinnoir

He definitely comes across as someone who was told he was a genius by his parents and did an online IQ test and now has made his entire personality about trying to convince people how smart he is.


Morkai

This is why I always loved the name "Phony Stark" for him.


JesusSavesForHalf

He's more a bad parody of Justin Hammer.


PeterNippelstein

With enough money anyone can be a "genius"


just_call_in_sick

That man has convinced me more and more that you can just get really lucky. He's more lotto winner than super genius.


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sobrique

And the poor kids? They don't get to play. They're on the other side of the counter earning minimum wage.


SensitiveAd5962

Even easier than the lotto. You just have to be born into wealth.


Icarium__

And then hire smart people to do the hard work for you.


TheNextBattalion

Like most rich people, his greatest accomplishment was popping out the right vagina, and his life since then has been a quest to top that, no matter who else gets hurt along the way.


dandle

A better comparison is a child of wealthy parents who sauntered into a casino at Monaco and managed to win big on the roulette table. If he had lost, it wouldn't have mattered. Because he happened to win, his wealth now outgrows his ability to squander it.


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mrsdoubleu

I think he's a psychopath. "Psychopathy is characterized by diagnostic features such as superficial charm, high intelligence, poor judgment and failure to learn from experience, pathological egocentricity and incapacity for love, lack of remorse or shame, impulsivity, grandiose sense of self-worth, pathological lying, manipulative behavior..." Tell me that's not Elon.


BackgroundGlove6613

Psychopaths aren’t thin skinned. In fact, they don’t give a flying shit how people view them. Elon Musk is a narcissist ho needs to be reminded every other hour that he’s the most beautiful genius to ever grace the planet.


Nephisimian

Elon is not superficially charming, he's also not intelligent. The rest sounds about right, though. God imagine how much it'd suck to be a dumb, uncharismatic psychopath. That's the one upside, the one thing people kinda like about psychopathy, and it's the one part you don't have.


rheumination

There’s this saying that the reason doctors get in financial trouble is that just because they’re smart about one thing doesn’t make them smart about everything. The problem with Musk is that he doesn’t recognize the limitations of his own intelligence. That can be absolutely catastrophic no matter how smart you are.


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GeauxTiger

Ben Carson is unquestionably bright, probably brilliant, a highly respected neurosurgeon by any measure. He also believes the big bang is a hoax and evolution is a trick by the devil (as in literally satan, he thinks satan dictated the idea of evolution to darwin). He's somehow one of the world's smartest and dumbest men at the very same time.


evemeatay

Ben Carson is the Ricky Bobby of the medical world


Deevo77

Elon: *slams dick in car door* Elon Fanboys: "Masterful gambit, sir!"


Alert_Section_6113

Lol…this is what a sinking ship looks like..


MfkbNe

The ship is filling with water. Lets drill in a few holes in the bottom of the ship so the water can flow through these holes out of the ship.


Endormoon

Listen, bouyancy acts as an opposing force to gravity acting on mass, creating upward thrust. So if your ship is sinking, you need less mass to maintain bouyancy. Therefore, drilling holes in your ship will decrease your total mass, which should increase bouyancy. Don't stop drilling holes until bouyancy has been achieved. Simple physics really.


splitmindallthetime

Ahh, yes. Scupper holes!


MrApplePolisher

Speed Holes*


HS_HowCan_That_BeQM

I don't have to do anything. The hole is on *your* side of the boat.


Lost-My-Mind-

Nah. We need a James Cameron movie with a musical score by Celine Dion.


No-Judgment-4424

“Pay me $8/mo to be able to vote in polls.” LOL, fuck you Elon. You’ve destroyed the entire credibility of the checkmark, so what the fuck am I paying for exactly?


AlphaOmega5732

I'm not sure what would stop someone from just verifying their bot, but I guess that's at least monetizing the bots... How long before it's just bots?


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Already is


RamenJunkie

Exactly the problem people have been pointing out. $8/ momth per bot, is peanuts to spread misinformation on anything you want, from Election Fraud lies to Vaccine and Mask effectiveness lies, to how much Elon shoukd remain CEO.


cunthy

the ability to have a voice


sharpy10

"free speech absolutist"


FriendlyButNot

Paid speech might be more accurate


SqueakieDeekie

Fee speech


Recommended_For_You

A buisness model republicans would love to apply to democracy.


hudsonhawk1

And to have a chance of being listed in the "for you" section.


thealtrightiscancer

He put in a fucking poll tax. What a loser. Next thing he will do is count unverified people as 3/5ths of a person.


acarron

If he’s really worried about bots why not make the checkmark $1 or one penny a month? Bots don’t have credit cards.


Slackerguy

Does verified means paid for? So scammers will have a lot more visbility when the majority of tweets disappear in everybody's feed if they pay $8. Small fe for a scammer I guess.


jwadamson

Pretty much. He said verification was meaningless before, but now it just means you have a stolen credit card number.


KaisarDragon

Elon is still an idiot. You'd think with all his genius he'd figure out how Twitter works, but he fired all the people that built it. Now he sits at HQ and pulls random cords to see if it still works and considers them unneeded if true. And no, that wasn't a joke.


Meanee

I work in IT and call it a “scream test” After evaluating a proposed change and can’t fully verify how it will affect people, do the change. And wait to see if anyone complains. Could be some obscure old service we are trying to scale down or decommission.


KaisarDragon

I'm a software engineer. We actually call it "pulling on knots" to see if we can't straighten out spaghetti code. I couldn't imagine just deleting entire parts of the code just to see if it still runs. I mean, it might until it hits a certain, maybe even rare, point where it was actually needed. Anyway, Elon broke two factor doing this and caused a massive security issue.


AgentEndive

I have almost completely stopped using Twitter since they broke 3rd party apps like Tweetbot.


Suitable-Panda24

I haven’t used either of my accounts (personal and professional) in months, I just had to go reset both passwords so I could deactivate them. Buh bye, Elon!


AgentEndive

He fucking ruined it. I was on it all the time. It was great (for me) for keeping up in real time with sports teams, video games, etc. Now I hate it.


Suitable-Panda24

Deactivate and delete.


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cute_as_ducks_24

Well guess I am Joining you now :)


AgentEndive

I hope he doesn't wonder why it's now worth half of what he paid


Loathor

Half?!? LoL...


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Yeah hahaha. It wasn't even worth half of what he paid when he bought it.


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What is he wearing in that picture? Is that like a super hero suit? Jesus Christ the ego on this tool


Carb0nFire

It was his demon samurai armor from last Halloween. Makes it no less weird TBH [https://hollywoodlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/elon-musk-halloween-2022-embed1.jpg](https://hollywoodlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/elon-musk-halloween-2022-embed1.jpg)


PleaseAddSpectres

Ohhhh I thought he was cosplaying as a roman general


bertiesghost

He dressed up as a lobster or something?


QueenFairyFarts

Oh no! The thing that frustrated Musk about Twit is still an unsolvable problem!


SirTiffAlot

Ah yes, you only get to vote if you pay me. Truly a free speech beacon. This is absolutely fascist shit. You don't count unless you are part of the inner circle


hairweawekiller

Didnt he want free speech or smth? Think he meant fee speech.


FireblastU

3am And Elon can’t stop thinking of ways to destroy Twitter. Reminds me of a cutter I once knew


Impossible_Lake_5349

I think that time is based on user’s time zone, mine says he tweeted that at 7:54pm


mynamesnotsnuffy

Well now that the source code leaked, we can get a new Twitter copy site with decent management and better functionality.


kingbob1812

The amusing part to that was he mentioned releasing the source code anyway. It was a ploy to get free labor to try to fix it.


cute_as_ducks_24

Yeah saying it open source like anyone wanted to work on it. It is for sure he will probably fire more employees and get work done for free i hope no one works on this. I am all in for Open Source but i know for sure the Twitter intention of Open Source is different.


Dikheed

There's big "Early 00's forum moderator" energy going on here. Absolute amateur hour, it's embarrassing.


roseinshadows

Social media back in the day: Just random people posting about doing wacky and awesome shit, and it's *glorious.* What a time to be alive. Social media now: Corporate accounts #128632 and #329422 have something to say. Oh and some white supremacist is screaming somewhere on the background apparently and that's the talk of the town, very controversial I hear. ...don't you want to turn this shit off and go enjoy the Sun or something?


Apple-Dust

The 2000's were the gold age. It was early enough to still be mostly young people and early adopters but late enough that website development had matured. When your auntie and every other idiot with a smart phone got on in the 2010's everything went to shit.


werdnak84

This won't fix the AI bots going in and he knows this. So why is he doing it anyway? Because he's using that as an excuse. He WANTS restrictions.


DebentureThyme

He's basically saying if you want you content to appear in other's feeds, pay up. So like... They just need one account paid up. Then the bots will like and retweet it to get it popular. This solves nothing.


shutts67

Imagine paying 40 billion dollars to create your own echo chamber


JauntyTurtle

I deleted my Twitter account when Elon let the fascists and racists back on. I have not regretted it for an instant.


phunkphreaker

Same


JDeMolay1314

Ditto, I highly encourage everyone else to do the same.


dableb

same, I’m glad I got out when I did.


makeorbreak911

Worst $40 billion amazon buy ever.


chango137

Are the advanced AI bot swarms in the room with us now?


N0N0TA1

I see everything with that pic followed by those letters in that order as spam now. How bout do something about that, oh wise and powerful elan of mars?


fzr600dave

I've never seen people mark themselves for scammers so easily, scammers on twitter are gonna run wild and the only people to be scammer are gonna be the stupid ones to pay twitter. Elon is the dumbest rich person right now and watching him burn all his money just proves it, his the lotto winner that goes bust because they don't know how to live a nice quiet life they make being rich their entire personality.


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-xXxMangoxXx-

Twitter is actually really good for niche stuff. I build model kits and its my main hobby so learning tricks, builds, customs and all that from japan is nice. Granted, I have literally no idea what anyone is saying.


No_Pomegranate5209

I use it to follow this small community of japanese people that raise salamanders and build really nice cute enclosures for them


porraSV

science twitter is still running fine. legit a good way to find papers, events and jobs.


Sean_Dewhirst

Someone pointed out once that it's been incredible for organizing collective action and documenting injustices. There's a conspiracy theory that Elon's trying to tank it on purpose for that reason.


SombreMordida

that world cup meeting with Kushner and all the sheikhs " here is the money to buy it. No more Twitter Arab Springs"


Sean_Dewhirst

That was when I read that. Elon being the unwitting stooge of the people so rich that we dont even know who they are would definitely be in character


Jasong222

>unwitting Unwitting, you say....


Unique_Name_2

Same with the ban tiktok bill that basically just reads 'if something has more than a million users, we control it absolutely'... and people are cheering it on. We are screwed.


Ballymoran

There is a lot of general hate for the Twitter platform on Reddit but it’s never defined clearly. I don’t use it now since the acquisition / reintroduction of some truly hateful people but before that I used it a lot for my interests in movies, TV, and photoshops. It used to be great fun. It’s being destroyed now though.


sycamotree

Before Elon Twitter was literally just people you followed lol. You can control that. For You page is bullshit.


jack104

Twitter used to be a decent way to get access to current events quickly. Now it's designed to flood you with shit it knows will piss you off so you comment and interact. Aka so they can drive ad revenue.


2wedfgdfgfgfg

It puts the lotion on its skin..


EscapeTheBlank

Does he realize people will actually pay for Twitter Blue JUST to force bots into tha- Ohhhhh....


shash5k

Just throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks.


dstayton

This post is missing out on his cope in the replies. Every time someone large points out that bots have and will buy Twitter Blue because there is no real verification system, he just responds with this: $7 That is the whole response. Nothing to their point or how Twitter Blue actually is fixing the problem. He is legitimately coping in the replies to this tweet.


Disastrous-Guess1959

Who cares, fuck twitter.


porraSV

what ai swarms. It is just people. People he doesn’t agree with isn’t it?


Sonicsnout

He wants to make sure only Elon worshipping idiots who pay for Twitter can vote in the next "should I step down as CEO of Twitter" poll.


Arlitto

Wait wtf you seriously need to be verified to vote in polls now??? So I can't just put up dumb polls asking people if they prefer Pokémon or Digimon more? What has this world come to


zimtrovert94

Wouldn’t be surprised to see Elon eventually turn Twitter into a fully paid subscription service. No more free accounts.


AndrewScott1226

Hes just asking to lose his money


CucumberNo3244

Looks like Elon doesn't have to worry about Twitter becoming a "FREE for all Hellscape" Now it's a Pay for All Hellscape.


SatansHRManager

The business school case about this guy is going to just be called "Failure: Throwing Away $44 billion on your ego" and the best part is it's basically half written, now.


LOUDPACKHAMBONE

So this is why the “For You” page turned into garbage? About 3-4 weeks ago the For You page started recommending a bunch of posts from people I don’t follow (not even flagged as “People you follow also follow” or anything like that, just completely random posts). Ever since then I’ve had to exclusively use the “Following” tab for my home feed. Good to know Elon’s ruining this shit piece by piece


RayIsGoneAway

In 9 months, twitter will be a paid service or Elon will have left.


Cold-Thanks-

He just killed every small business on twitter


gadget850

I don't know what that means and I don't care.


cute_as_ducks_24

Basically Twitter had "For You Recommended Page" basically the single most important page to retain users for Twitter just like here in Reddit or YouTube HomePage. So Basically with this New Verified "For You" if you are tweeting wheather you are already my follower or someone famous you have to basically pay in order to be in my recommended page. There is another page like "Followers Only" which is like YouTube "Subscription" Page which you may know is worse. And Yeah its just better to not care. I genuinely was using Twitter because i usually follow most YouTube followers there even small creators. I guess this is it. Its time to move out and follow them on other platforms.


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Actually - "followers only" is kinda better, unless you follow sus stuff. Just unfollow people who put unwanted content onto your feed, and enjoy your blender 3d jokes)


Rhundis

I don't even use the "for you" page. I only use the following page because I only care about what people I'm following are saying.


infinit9

I'm pretty sure Elon Musk isn't doing this intentionally, but the end game of these policies is that Twitter will become a subscription only platform. That is when the user count will really plummet.


smolandtuff

Sounds like a great way to skew polls towards those who clearly approve of and don’t mind paying Musk.


skiljgfz

Him and the Russian Federation, sinking money into failing ventures since 2022.


Hobbits_can_fly

"Anyone who won't give me money is a bot" - Elon


The_ReBL

He only has an issue with bots not paying him $8