So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX

"I am a being of pure objectivity with no bias. You peons and your valid criticisms of someone amuse me"

He has said before, that he doesn't care about taking big risks and possibly losing money and even possibly failing. Which is clearly evidenced by his past business decisions.

He's certainly not unusual in the entrepreneurial space with this attitude. He frequently admits that his decisions have the potential to be a financial mistake, and yet he's still willing to do it anyway. Obviously he's not really like most of the general public, he thinks differently and acts very differently. This is why I'm never inclined to bet against the guy. He's way more successful that 99.9% of the people who consistently criticise his decision making. I'm just an interested observer in what he gets up to really... so I'll wait and see how things pan out with this latest venture.

I'm liking the "X" change anyway. I'm going to predict that it will be a successful re-branding in the long term. But we'll have wait and see what else he has planned, and what the overall strategy is.

Okay but the above logic is assuming he is engaging some genius that nobody can discern. This ignores the fact he overpaid and partially did so for a 420 joke. That he's lost a huge amount of advertisers and has publicly complained about this. That the platform has become more unstable and he's actively not paying the actual bills for background services.

So indiscernible genius sounds more like an inability to defend the mess he's making of the platform. I also think it's a pretty big sign of how things are going when he's not boasting about record breaking traffic etc.

He signed paperwork, that was the issue. Else he doesnt care what he said/tweeted/xed yesterday.

But would you not need to wait a few years to see how his venture pans out?

Very few big business ventures, especially ones that involve significant alterations to the original business model, are likely to be successful overnight. Common sense and historical precedent would tell you that these things take time to bed in and find their feet so to speak. From some of the interviews I've watched with Musk, he seems to be looking at this with longer term objectives. And not necessarily all of them being financial or profit driven either. I get the sense there is some altruistic motive here too.

I think he understands that this may involve angering a few people, who do not share his vision. But that's part of life really, particularly in such a polarised society that we are currently living.

But Twitter didn't need significant alterations, it was working just fine, and the last thing it needed was a rebrand.

How is "X" being successful in the long term, secondary?

If his objectives are mostly long term, then it would be the early mistakes or blunders that could be considered "secondary" to the overall big picture goal.

Unless you are referring to certain people's short term objective to take down a powerful individual, who they identify as some sort of ideological threat? I guess that would supersede any of the longer term objectives/visions.

He's acting like the taking down of the site IS his end goal. Why ? I'm not sure, boredom, spite, see if he can, who knows? He's certainly not running it like he wants to protect his investment, but I guess he has the money to be ok with that.

Thing is, I would suspect that engagement in the platform has dropped drastically. Advertisers have dropped off drastically too. That's long term reputational damage based on spur of the moment decisions from Musk.... That's gonna impact any long term future.

What a surprise

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But, if they are seeing racism where there is none, or if they are playing the race card with this trial, were they fit for purpose in a content moderation team? Isn't it better now when there is none, or only moderation which deals with heavy and illegal stuff?