Which is one reason threads like this technically don't belong here.So, is the forum for the exchange of thoughtful ideas and info regarding Tesla, or a worship-Elon site? Says Tesla in the name last time I looked at the top of my screen.
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Which is one reason threads like this technically don't belong here.So, is the forum for the exchange of thoughtful ideas and info regarding Tesla, or a worship-Elon site? Says Tesla in the name last time I looked at the top of my screen.
Yes, probably in the main. The issue of how Elon’s twitter deal affects Tesla is legit here, but isn’t much to chew over. There is just a simple idea or two there for now... plus a lot of tribal posturing.Which is one reason threads like this technically don't belong here.
These folks did a quickie analysis of twitter accounts active over the past 90 days. They claim ~19.42% are likely spam/bots. If true, that would be 4x what twitter has been claiming lately.
SparkToro & Followerwonk Joint Twitter Analysis: 19.42% of Active Accounts Are Fake or Spam - SparkToro
TL;DR - From May 13-15, 2022, SparkToro and Followerwonk conducted a rigorous, joint analysis of five datasets including a variety of active (i.e.sparktoro.com
I created a twitter account early on and have yet to issue a tweet. A few years ago I noticed I had several hundred followers. Deleted as many as I could, but still had a few. Now I notice I have zero followers. So it seems like twitter has been doing some cleaning up.
Of those, 130 Million are “recently active” by Followerwonk’s definition, i.e. they’ve sent tweets within the past 9 weeks, and are public, not “protected” (Twitter’s terminology for private accounts).
I signed up for a Twitter account about 15 years ago when it first started. Haven't posted anything for years and I don't go to the website to read it although I do see content posted elsewhere online. Probably shouldn't count me as a user or even a lurker.The raises the question of how many people are Twitter lurkers. (Twurkers?) Lurkers are still consumers.
(I don't have a Twitter account, so I'm definitely read only, and not even a lurker.)
Elon needs to walk away, this is beyond parody at this point. "People work 4 days a quarter"? Really? If Elon doesn't walk away from this deal I will seriously question his judgment and also my own judgment in remaining invested in his company.
Elon needs to walk away, this is beyond parody at this point. "People work 4 days a quarter"? Really? If Elon doesn't walk away from this deal I will seriously question his judgment and also my own judgment in remaining invested in his company.
Right… random dude with agenda is not exactly who I am going to believe about something so absurd
To be fair- it's project veritas- a group repeatedly sued for deceptive and dishonest "expose" stories, and who has been raided by the FBI for criminal activity.
To also be fair . . . it's a video where an admitted senior engineer from Twitter spills the beans.
To also be fair . . . it's a video where an admitted senior engineer from Twitter spills the beans.
Well, no- it's a video where project veritas claims it's a senior engineer.
PV has claimed lots of things that turned out not to be true though.
Googling his name I found no evidence his actual job other than far-right news sites repeating the claim in the video.
Also it appears the person interviewing him is a woman at a bar and they're having drinks- so for all we know this is any rando in any job at twitter trying to get into someones pants and PV specifically set up a sting for any twitter employee they could get to show up... (it'd also be consistent with PV behavior if they did this multiple times and only published the one time they got someone to say something they wanted said).
He also mentioned he only goes to work like 4 hours a week, so it's equally possible he is some sort of engineer but the "everyone at twitter" he's talking about is like the couple of other dudes who happen to be there that same tiny % of the time.
In short PV is an unrelaible source who has been caught doing shady and outright illegal "reporting" for years. It's pretty reasonable to be dubious enough not to take what they're presenting at face value, since so often it turned out what they were presenting was anywhere from "not the whole truth" to "almost 0 actual truth"
Argument of convenience.
FACT - we KNOW that Twitter employees contribute to the left at mulitples to the right:
Argument of convenience.
FACT - we KNOW that Twitter employees contribute to the left at mulitples to the right:
That should not be disputed, and anyone here that says otherwise is just dishonest.Twitter Profile: Totals
Twitter organization profile: contributions by party of recipient, by source of funds, and affiliates.www.opensecrets.org
FACT - we KNOW that Twitter employees in the OPEN town hall meeting after Elon's purchased was confirmed were VERY VERY unhappy. There are tons of accounts of this.
So while you COULD be right that this is "all made up", the rest of the environment in which this is showing up, it lends a great deal of credibility to the account. Far more credibility than the argument of "it's just made up."
Googling his name I found no evidence his actual job other than far-right news sites repeating the claim in the video.
No, argument of a known dishonest source that has repeatedly been caught outright lying.
For example way back in 2006 they sent a fake underaged girl (she was of age) into planned parenthood and secretly (and illegally BTW) filmed the workers advice to the girl.
Then heavily edited it to make it look like they never cited the laws they follow (even though they did) and to make it look like they never asked the girl to consult her mother about the pregnancy (even though they did). PV was eventually forced to take down the videos.
In 2009 was the famous ACORN expose... where again they "interviewed" folks under false pretenses, often without them knowing they were being inverviewed- then the results were heavily edited to try and elicit damaging statements from employees. The heavy edits make it look like he'd entered in a pimp outfit and the employees had actively tried to help him break the law. Congress actually suspended funding of ACORN as a result of these videos.
Except- it turns out he didn't wear that outfit into the offices, and the office not never did anything to break the law at all, they actively reported the person coming in asking how to do so to the cops immediately.
Multiple PV parties ended up sued over it, and having to pay out large settlements for their deception.
That's pretty much continued to be the PV playbook ever since... including editing things out of sequence to, for example take someone who was saying (in the raw footage) that defunding a program would cause significant damage to make it sound like they actually wanted it defunded.... or PV releasing a heavily, dishonestly, edited video where they claimed an environmental film maker was willing to take foreign oil money.... hilariously the filmmaker had ALSO recorded the discussion, and released the UNedited copy, showing exactly the opposite with him repeatedly refusing the money.
And on and on.
So do Teslas.
Tesla Inc Profile: Recipients
Tesla Inc organization profile: candidate recipients for the 2022 cycle and top recipients of all types for the 2022 cycle.www.opensecrets.org
If you wanna just blindly take what's already obviously an edited video- from a source who has been widely known to be flat out dishonestly editing videos- often to present the opposite impression of the things actually said in the raw footage- at face value- that's on you.