What did elon do wrong in Twitter

[Tytanowy Janusz]

Those who criticize or disparage Elon only lead me to believe that they envy him because they don't have what Elon has.

I honestly don't think it's jealousy. More in my opinion, it is ignorance (combined with an underestimation of the complexity of the world) combined with a primal need to look for simple causality, combined with an overly high opinion of oneself.

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[michellee]

Maybe Elon has started to lose his income from Twitter so he decided to fire almost all his employees and replace them with bots. By using bots, he has clearly cut the cost of employee salaries and only has to watch how his bot works to manage Twitter.

And if he wants to sell Twitter after making many changes at Twitter, that's up to him because he may not be interested in managing Twitter anymore. He may have already thought that Twitter was not giving him much income. We also don't know Elon's plans for Twitter so we can only guess.

It could be his strategy to sell Twitter and to get attention from the people who use Twitter. We also don't need to pay much attention to what Elon is doing because it has nothing to do with us and we only know what he does from the news.

[isaac_clarke22]

Wait a minute I used to think online is the next generation if your not going online your toast but elon musk just lost funds in Twitter trying to take it fully online. He sacked almost all the employees ,replaced them with bots and now he is trying   to sell it . Don't mistake me I'm not trying to criticise the dude but i don't get why this happened for real his plan was nice trying to reduce cost of work . But what went wrong
Twitter usage is really going down I think the app is more boring . What do you think we all know elon this might be another business Strategy right

Well I was starting to think that he was not serious in the first place in Twitter anyway, like why would he try to take over it in the first place? Gain fame? Sure it is all about money, but he could possibly had did it to more "serious" platforms.

People were saying that he was just trying to destroy Twitter, not really trying to make it better. That's just sayings, but I am not really sure though.

[fullhdpixel]

Wait a minute I used to think online is the next generation if your not going online your toast but elon musk just lost funds in Twitter trying to take it fully online. He sacked almost all the employees ,replaced them with bots and now he is trying   to sell it . Don't mistake me I'm not trying to criticise the dude but i don't get why this happened for real his plan was nice trying to reduce cost of work . But what went wrong
Twitter usage is really going down I think the app is more boring . What do you think we all know elon this might be another business Strategy right

I didn't hear anything about his selling Twitter or X as that is what it's called now, and what makes you think that Elon Musk is responsible for the platform being boring? He is not controlling the user accounts and posting content from his side. You could say that he might have made some decisions that might have become the reason for a lot of people leaving the platform but that number isn't surprisingly large in my opinion and it might improve again later on.

I don't know about anything else, but there is one thing that I believe shouldn't have been done and it is to allow everyone to have a blue tick by paying a certain amount of money as a fee for it, it was better when they used to decide who should have that tick as it used to represent that an account having that tick belongs to someone who is famous and earned it.

[DanWalker]

Maybe Elon has started to lose his income from Twitter so he decided to fire almost all his employees and replace them with bots. By using bots, he has clearly cut the cost of employee salaries and only has to watch how his bot works to manage Twitter.

And if he wants to sell Twitter after making many changes at Twitter, that's up to him because he may not be interested in managing Twitter anymore. He may have already thought that Twitter was not giving him much income. We also don't know Elon's plans for Twitter so we can only guess.

It could be his strategy to sell Twitter and to get attention from the people who use Twitter. We also don't need to pay much attention to what Elon is doing because it has nothing to do with us and we only know what he does from the news.

It is true that what he does has nothing to do with us nor benefits us, he is in business for his own profit. But it's not uncommon for him to be the subject of discussion because he's the richest man in the world and his manners and words often create disagreements. But on the news he's selling Twitter, I've never heard of that and I don't think that was his goal. I guess he has bigger plans with twitter in the future, such as the race to the white house?

[Majestic-milf]

 I think at the end of the day, whether the purchase of Twitter was a bad idea or not, or it's not going to be a promising and profitable business venture, he'd still recover if ever Twitter goes bust. Plus he must have learned early that in business, you win some and lose some.
Twitter was total chaos after his takeover but that just defines what most business magnates are made of; to be ruthless and unfeeling as long as it takes in profit, right? Let's believe he's got a plan up his sleeves, but then again, always bothering ourselves with what plans he has next is not something I'd be worrying my head about because even though he's a major player in the crypto market, I doubt he'd be seeking the opinion of anyone before doing what he wanna.

[Jatiluhung]

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He invested heavily in buying Twitter. And of course someone like Elon Musk won't buy something without careful planning.

The fact that he didn't, there was no proper planning for it. Musk bought Twitter after being sued in court. And a little I suspect that this has something to do with the interests of politicians so that the court scenario requires Elon to acquire Twitter as soon as possible. cmiiw

Well, we don't know the real reasons behind all of Elon's actions, who bought Twitter and then made some pretty bold policies. And he also cut the number of employees for the company. As if he had actually thought of everything since he had not bought Twitter. My guess is that he has wanted Twitter for a long time because maybe having a social media platform with a lot of users is one of the things he needs to have to continue with his plans.

Let's see in a few years what will happen to X. And speaking of the symbol X, this is not a new plan either. But it seems that it also has a bit to do with things in the past regarding Elon.

we can only speculate here and well we are free to think and judge about this. But the real answer belongs to Elon.

[Sayeds56]

Elon Musk's approach to twitter is an interesting case to study and analyze, however it would be premature to establish any opinion about twitter before its substantial upgrade reaches completion. I understand that his team is working behind the scene to integrate this social media channel with automated bots and a potential payment infrastructure facilitating global transactions for good and services. There is a possibility that he could potentially integrate payment system based on crypto currencies into the mix.

[Tuturtinular]

Wait a minute I used to think online is the next generation if your not going online your toast but elon musk just lost funds in Twitter trying to take it fully online. He sacked almost all the employees ,replaced them with bots and now he is trying   to sell it . Don't mistake me I'm not trying to criticise the dude but i don't get why this happened for real his plan was nice trying to reduce cost of work . But what went wrong
Twitter usage is really going down I think the app is more boring . What do you think we all know elon this might be another business Strategy right

I think buying Twitter in the first place was a mistake Elon Musk made out of arrogance. He was too hasty in bidding on Twitter, when he wanted to stop buying Twitter, it turned out that he was sued by Twitter officials so he was forced to buy Twitter.

To be honest, I don't think Elon Musk will be successful at running Twitter. I hope Elon will release Twitter soon and Twitter will be held again by people who are suitable in their fields. In some ways, Elon Musk is a smart guy, but I don't think that's the case for the future of Twitter

[DeathAngel]

I don’t think he’s done anything wrong. I think he has reinstated free speech mostly which is a huge positive. There will be no Twitter induced election interference this time which again is a huge positive. I think we will see that as a business, with the Twitter Blue initiative that it will be a far more profitable business which is uptikately the main goal for Elon.

[KingsDen]

He sacked almost all the employees ,replaced them with bots and now he is trying   to sell it . Don't mistake me I'm not trying to criticise the dude but i don't get why this happened for real his plan was nice trying to reduce cost of work . But what went wrong

This is part of the challenges of Twitter. Elon musk to me was hasty to try to cut down cost by laying off old hands whose wisdom and expertise was highly needed. He wanted to introduce himself as being capable to run social media with bot system just like his background of SpaceX and Tesla. So he needs to retrace the all business idea to make profit rather than the primary public interest of Twitter, before Elon musk Twitter was barely known with all the financial news around it. He needs to take a clue from Mark zugerberg on this.

Elon is just a wise guy. One of the most wisest in the world and I do not doubt him any moment. When Elon came into bitcoin and dodge, we saw the impact it gave to the cryptocurrency market. When he took over twitter there was wave, even if he wants to sell twitter, he is intending to make another wave. When I heard the news of Elon and  Mark, I know he is about to do something.

Op, everything is going bot way, we must embrace it now or in the future.

[goldkingcoiner]

Elon doesn't need the Twitter app, so he threw out the old management. He only needs its users... Remember how he negotiated the price when he discovered so many bots on Twitter? Twitter's value is significantly affected by how many active users are on the platform, not by how much money it makes. Now, suddenly "X" has the same amount of Twitter users. Shortly, he'll make another feature for X, not just for social media. He mentioned a "super-app" IIRC, probably like WeChat.

Elon Musk is an attention-begging, gigantic egotistical narcissist who pretends to be furthering technology even though he has not invented or achieved anything worthwhile. He is basically a version of Steve Jobs, who, while being very talented when it comes to hyping people up and taking their money, has not been able to hold on to a single one of his promises. His rockets fail, his mars mission will never come to pass, his cars are fancy-looking junk that people only buy so they can brag about buying them. And now he aquired Twitter and has no idea what to do with it. All he wanted from Twitter was the attention of the users.

[Emmanuelex]

It's gotten that bad? I wasn't aware of it. Ever since their annoying updates I have stopped keeping up with the app and every news that really has to do with it. I think Jack made a huge mistake by selling the Twitter platform to Elon, because since he took over, he just ruined a lot of things about Twitter, now a lot of people started to dislike it. Anyways, I'm not entirely off, because I still have audience on the platform tho', but I'm not that much active as of before now.

[Porfirii]

It's gotten that bad? I wasn't aware of it. Ever since their annoying updates I have stopped keeping up with the app and every news that really has to do with it. I think Jack made a huge mistake by selling the Twitter platform to Elon, because since he took over, he just ruined a lot of things about Twitter, now a lot of people started to dislike it. Anyways, I'm not entirely off, because I still have audience on the platform tho', but I'm not that much active as of before now.

That's my case too: I wasn't very active for the last year, but it is now months since I logged in for the last time. We, as users, focus on features and benefits we obtain from different social media platforms, but in my opinion we should also care about the changes in the politics of these platforms and behave accordingly. I have nothing against efficiency, but the social impact of the measures explained in the OP should be taken into account when making the decision of which platforms use and which not.

[slapper]

Elon doesn't need the Twitter app, so he threw out the old management. He only needs its users... Remember how he negotiated the price when he discovered so many bots on Twitter? Twitter's value is significantly affected by how many active users are on the platform, not by how much money it makes. Now, suddenly "X" has the same amount of Twitter users. Shortly, he'll make another feature for X, not just for social media. He mentioned a "super-app" IIRC, probably like WeChat.

Elon Musk is an attention-begging, gigantic egotistical narcissist who pretends to be furthering technology even though he has not invented or achieved anything worthwhile. He is basically a version of Steve Jobs, who, while being very talented when it comes to hyping people up and taking their money, has not been able to hold on to a single one of his promises. His rockets fail, his mars mission will never come to pass, his cars are fancy-looking junk that people only buy so they can brag about buying them. And now he aquired Twitter and has no idea what to do with it. All he wanted from Twitter was the attention of the users.

Yes, he is a loud talker who is constantly vying for the spotlight. Isn't it simply excessive?

Exactly why did he purchase Twitter? Whose focus? Everyone is aware of the significance of this fact. Observe the Teslas. You have to question if they are purchasing a vehicle or a brand that has been oversold.

However, we should also discuss Steve Jobs. Even though he was a maestro of hype, at least he delivered. Elon? Many of these lofty promises remain unfulfilled.

What is the upshot? You must be wary of whom you put your trust in, particularly when it comes to so-called "visionaries." Occasionally, the performance is more important than the outcome. And I have yet to see Musk's major achievements. However, who knows? Perhaps he's not as great as he believes he is. Who knows?!

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Wait a minute I used to think online is the next generation if your not going online your toast but elon musk just lost funds in Twitter trying to take it fully online. He sacked almost all the employees ,replaced them with bots and now he is trying   to sell it . Don't mistake me I'm not trying to criticise the dude but i don't get why this happened for real his plan was nice trying to reduce cost of work . But what went wrong
Twitter usage is really going down I think the app is more boring . What do you think we all know elon this might be another business Strategy right

To be honest, I don't exactly understand what you mean, but all the same, my simple reply would be that Elon owns Twitter, he bought it with his hard-earned money, and that I believe gives him the full right to do whatever he wants or wills with the app, him sacking people is not a concern if you ask me, I mean every business out there are looking for effective ways to cut down cost and also generate more profit at the same time, so if sucking people was one of his ways to achieve that, we can't blame him, he is just doing what he thinks is best for his business, after all, we are talking about billions of dollars here which he spent from his pocket to acquire Twitter, it is only normal for him to do whatever he thinks is right so as to get that money back as quick as possible and also generate profit for himself.

So for me personally, I do not find anything boring about Twitter, and to be honest still, nothing has really changed from the week which are used to be before, aside from the blue tick which can now be owned even by scammers .

[Razmirraz]

Only Elon Musk knows what he's going to do with the future Twitter continuation. The goal of acquiring Twitter is part of the business. He, who is a reliable and successful businessman in several areas of his business, will try new luck with Twitter. Major changes that occurred internally and externally led to various kinds of speculation from users as you say "Twitter application is more boring". This is only the assessment of a small number of users after the changes occurred to Twitter, but from a different point of view there are still many Twitter users who feel comfortable with the new policy taken by Elon Musk.

[irhact]

Wait a minute I used to think online is the next generation if your not going online your toast but elon musk just lost funds in Twitter trying to take it fully online. He sacked almost all the employees ,replaced them with bots and now he is trying   to sell it . Don't mistake me I'm not trying to criticise the dude but i don't get why this happened for real his plan was nice trying to reduce cost of work . But what went wrong
Twitter usage is really going down I think the app is more boring . What do you think we all know elon this might be another business Strategy right

Elon musk has a plan, he always has a plan and all that he's doing is only leading to his master plan that he has before he decided to buy the social media. Elon musk is a genius and he has already rebranded the platform to X which will be a host to all of his plans and he has also started paying content creators which means X will be filled with more content creators as they search for ways to make money from the social media and this will make him more profit from the social media.

When Elon musk bought twitter he noticed that the social media was been operated on losses and he has cut down on all those expenses and now the platform is generating revenue from those individual that want to verify their twitter badges or become content creators.

[Sayeds56]

As in my previous comment within this thread, I had mentioned that Elon Musk is working on a comprehensive plan to add crypto currency based system in twitter (X). Today news piece has surfaced, reveling that Elon Musk has successfully obtained license in three different US states for this intiative.This significant positive development has led to remarkable surge in Bitcoin price. In just one day, its price increased approximately $1500.

https://cryptotvplus.com/2023/07/twitter-secures-payment-licenses-in-three-us-states/

[Wimex]

Considering that changes in business strategies and companies' approach are common in the business world, and Elon Mosk is also known for making unusual decisions… It makes the idea of automating certain aspects of Twitter using bots might have been an attempt to improve efficiency... But clearly it didn't work that way and ended up bringing consequences. The perception of the inherent decline, I would say that it is because better platforms have come out, I personally have never liked Twitter... It is one of the most toxic places on the web. Lastly as to whether this could be another business strategy, it could be quite possible, we have seen that companies are often looking for new ways to innovate and differentiate themselves in the marketplace, and dramatic changes can generate attention and renew interest in a platform. …only time will reveal the true intent behind these decisions.