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Elon & Twitter
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Elon’s pretty tight with the Chinese government. Surely he’d offer a discount.
sleepydoc
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But Polestar had a 243% increase in sales!Not just me, the entire market. The next best model sells like 10% of Model 3/Y in US.
Here’s how US electric vehicle sales by maker and EV model through Q3 2022 compare
2022 has been the biggest year for electric vehicles in the United States on record as automakers go head to...electrek.co
The numbers are pretty impressive - Tesla’s combined sales are over ⅔ of the entire EV market. The next closest is the Mustang Mach E at 4.9%, or Hyundai Ioniq/Kia EV 6 @ 6.2% if you combine them.
There are other ways to look at that data, though. FIrst is the sheer number of EVs on the market compared to what it was 2 or 3 years ago. I don’t expect any of them to knock Tesla off it’s throne in the next 6 months but the fact remains that there is a lot more competition today than there was even last year.
The other fact to keep in mind is that supply constraints significantly limited sales last year. Tesla was also affected by them but to a lesser degree.
The past and present are quite clear. The question is the future.
ZenRockGarden
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He could do a lot if he just shut up and went to work instead of picking fights with almost every single group who's help he needs (employees, advertisers, content creators)
Did someone already post about this from this morning?
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www.theverge.com
techcrunch.com
Twitter’s new double-check verification disappears, Elon Musk says he ‘killed it’
The gray checks are gone, but for how long?
www.theverge.com
RIP TechCrunch's official Twitter badge (11/9/22-11/9/22)
Gone but not forgotten </3o
techcrunch.com
Elon Musk ends remote working at Twitter and orders staff back to the office for at least 40 hours a week
Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email for the first time, putting an end to remote work and warning of "difficult times ahead," per Bloomberg.
www.businessinsider.com
Crap article:
Author doesn't understand 'official' vs 'verified'. Verified means tied to a phone # & credit card, official means this is the person/ entity named.
It's own example shows that Twitter does catch bad actors, including payement/ identity details. Thus incurring the monetary penalty and potential id ban.
Tries to tie earlier statements on perma-bans to banning malicious actors as a pivot.
Elon did not argue with anyone on the Spaces meeting, he answered questions. And his answers were more definitive than the article's version (which is self contradictory in the sane sentence, or purposely confuses the speaker) .
sleepydoc
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…and how many people reading tweets understand the difference? Not the twitter diehards and tech savvy, just the average people. I’d be willing to bet the majority don’t, and that’s the point.
sleepydoc
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Not to dismiss efforts at improving the platform but I have to wonder - is this like the FSD release notes that say “improved lane selection by 42.3%” which sounds good but isn’t really noticeable in daily driving.
In that case the article is even worse since people who don't know then think it's supposed to be what it isn't and never was given the alledged back door payoffs to get the checkmark.
JRP3
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I think it's just the gray check "Official" designation that's gone, not the blue check. Also this really belongs in the Elon and Twitter thread.
“I just killed it,” tweeted Twitter’s billionaire owner Elon Musk, responding to a tweet about the gray check disappearing. “Blue check will be the great leveler.”
Twitter’s new double-check verification disappears, Elon Musk says he ‘killed it’
The gray checks are gone, but for how long?
www.theverge.com
twitter currently is AWFUL to use when you search for latest election updates/ county updates etc. it feels like 2/3rds of tweets showing are coming from "verified" accounts (shocker, they get pushed by algo as Elon promised) but most aren't "verified" like in the pre-Elon days (aka. journalists/ political commentators, folks with a LOT of followers)... nah... a lot of fresh accounts with less than 5k followers who just "bought" their verification. Very hard now to decide who actually follows country election boards versus who is just trolling
Elon made Twitter better by creating the Blue Checkmark and making it the great leveler, it’s amazing….
Seems to me to be a sarcastic joke about the idea that EVs are not sustainable transport.
Its a meme that's going around twitter. Some of them are pretty funny in my opinion.
The whole idea of a verified / impersonator meme on twitter based on Elon's decisions is also kind of funny to me.
The whole idea of a verified / impersonator meme on twitter based on Elon's decisions is also kind of funny to me.
The mess continues unabated.
This is my "favorite" part:
Talk about an overhang. How about a multi-billion dollar FTC suit?
This is my "favorite" part:
Talk about an overhang. How about a multi-billion dollar FTC suit?
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