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Elon & Twitter
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Anyone know what time the Twitter-Elon town hall is tomorrow? I haven't seen it published anywhere.
I would venture a guess that it is going to be after market close and in the afternoon San Francisco time.
That way nothing is really impacted until Friday as info trickles out.
bkp_duke
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Someone in the main thread said it was mid-morning, Pacific time.
Musk-Twitter Takeover Drama Takes Another Turn With Town Hall Meeting
The Elon Musk-Twitter takeover drama took another turn with an employee meeting. Twitter stock and TSLA stock both fell after the meeting.
www.investors.com
thanks. yes. here it says "morning conference call"
mspohr
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Here's a brief recap:
www.cnbc.com
Here's what Elon Musk just told Twitter employees
Here's what Elon Musk just told Twitter employees
www.cnbc.com
bkp_duke
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Here's a brief recap:
Here's what Elon Musk just told Twitter employees
Here's what Elon Musk just told Twitter employees
Out of all that, it appears most employees are worried about their jobs.
Easy solution, SHOW UP AND BE SEEN at the office and you are a leg up on almost everyone else.
mspohr
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I've often said that 90% of success in life is due to showing up.
The recap seems to have missed this part:
People here rarely realize just how pervasive wechat is in China, very glad to see Musk recognizes this and holds it up as a model to emulate.
People here rarely realize just how pervasive wechat is in China, very glad to see Musk recognizes this and holds it up as a model to emulate.
bkp_duke
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Yeah, he's said WeChat is the model he wants for Twitter, a few times in fact.
If he could do that, it would 20X his investment, and provide a TON of value to the platform.
So, “basically living on” a social media app is a good thing?
Great.... so maybe Americans can increase their current average of seven hours and 50 minutes a day online with digital media each day to encompass the handful of remaining waking minutes.
With corresponding effects on mental health, weight, longevity, attention span etc.
And by bumping Twitter to a billion users we can increase the reach of Chinese and Russian disinformation experts.
JRP3
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Whenever I think of free speech I think of China as the shining example...
AlanSubie4Life
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I, for one, welcome our new dystopian overlord.
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Knightshade
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Yeah, the "living on social media" goal is awful-- but apart from that part of why Wechat is so big is the government censors and firewalls nearly any viable alternative platform.
Over a billion people use it because they don't have an option to use something else.
Twitter on the other hand has to actually compete in a "free" market, and as such has a tiny fraction of the addressable userbase using it.
This whole twitter garbage is looking more and more like Elons in-love-with-a-literal-pigeon moment.
Over a billion people use it because they don't have an option to use something else.
Twitter on the other hand has to actually compete in a "free" market, and as such has a tiny fraction of the addressable userbase using it.
This whole twitter garbage is looking more and more like Elons in-love-with-a-literal-pigeon moment.
It’s all good. No possible way his plan is going to work. Allowing people to fling the N word at will and dox each other is NOT the golden path to a billion users.
Living on WeChat is not so much about time and toxic social media. More about integrated payments, shopping & communicating. You don't need to go from Instagram to WhatsApp to Apple wallet to Uber to Amazon etc. like we all need to. It's all in one place.
mspohr
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Maybe he will integrate PayPal with Twitter!
As a species, we do not need more time online. no matter how cushy and integrated.
Elon is big on keeping the species alive, but knows or cares little about quality of life. (Back to work, slaves! In person because I say so!). Time online is, on net, corrosive to the species. And frankly living on Mars? Worse than a prison sentence. Huge joke.
Increasing the birth rate with a commensurate need for more energy, consumption, mined resources, pollution etc... How is that going to help fix climate change, and preserve the other forms of life on earth that we rely on?
But OK, let’s integrate half our lives into Twitter.
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FlatSix911
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I wonder what the average screen time is for TMC members on this site?
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Ship has sailed. Integrated approach means less time online. Elon will very likely want to get people meeting irl (aided by Twitter) as it plays into RT strengths. One example could be suggesting all group members meet at an equidistant bar and coordinates the RTs.
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